Meeting bridge builders helped me abandoned my violence

Avec : Ziad Fahed

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Extraits marquants

I discovered that violence is never a solution and that war can never end.

Résumé

The war in Lebanon started, I was nine years old. I did what a teenager can do when he is brainwashed...

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The war in Lebanon started
when I was nine years old.

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And since that time the image
of the wars were exactly

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printed in my head and
in my heart.

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When I was a teenager
I was so excited to help

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and to defend my society.

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I believed in violence.

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I believed that violence could
bring the solution and could

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protect my people
and my family.

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So I was involved in
that time during the war.

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I did what a teenager can do
when he is brainwashed,

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ready to fight,
to spread hate,

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to spread violence
even by giving violence,

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ready to defend and to do
whatever we can do on that time.

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Later on I was privileged to
discover another reality.

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I discovered the reality that
violence is never a solution

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and that war can never end.

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And war will never bring
a right solution.

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And that war can never
be a solution.

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I think the most important
factor in my life was meeting

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people who were bridge builders,
who were able to cross

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and to abandon violence
in their own life,

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who were by themselves
bridge builders,

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through their own examples,
their own testimony,

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their own life:
Muslims or Christians,

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Lebanese or French or
Swiss or whatsoever.

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I was able to discover that
there is another reality

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and I was able to discover
and to believe in myself.

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I was able to discover
that Lebanese people

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are not pitbulls,
ready to kill each other,

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ready to hate and to
attack each other.