'Elias Chacour' Tagged Posts

    Blood Brothers is roughly one-third personal memoir, one-third history lesson and one-third a meditation on peace.  It takes as its central theme the dangers when outside forces stress and forcibly disrupt a community’s peace.  This done by disregarding its inherent dynamic. Chacour was born in pre-partition Palestine isn 1937 and  retired in 2014 as an Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in post-partition Palestine.  He seems uniquely qualified to both describe and address the issues facing Palestine…