Word: haj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witness #1: Abul Haj, arms dealer and rug merchant...
...taking perhaps four of those seats, the rest going to left-wing Arab parties. "If you vote against the Jews, there will be no peace," he bellows into the microphone. "If you are serious, give us your vote, and you will have rights." Among the crowd, Halad Ali Haj, 28, an out-of-work painter, mutters, "I vote for the intifadeh...
...captors, sat on the edge of my mat and said, "Do you forgive me?" to which I responded, "Yes, Said, I do forgive you and ask your forgiveness too." For there were times when I was filled with anger and hate. And on the evening of my release, Haj ((another captor)), quoting from my letter home to my loved ones, said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." I could not help but think these were the words of Jesus, who died in peace and returns to his disciples not with anger or retaliation against them...
Before taking off for Rome, Jenco told a crowd of well-wishers, "Terry, David, Tom and I prayed constantly, 'I long to see the Lord and the land of the living.' " Then, in an extraordinary litany, Jenco addressed some of his former captors by name: "Haj, I'm on my way to see the Holy Father (about) what we discussed . . . Said, I thank you for your last-minute counsel that I will need to be an ambitious person to sustain the final hours of release. Said, I pray no one else will have to be an ambitious person." He also...
...playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament of Lebanese Army Brigadier General Mohammed Haj as bodies were being pulled from the rubble in Barbir. "In this deadly game," said Haj, "we are all victims and losers...