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Ali Abu Awwad ((アラビア語:علي أبو عواد), born 1972) is a Palestinian activist and pacifist. He is the founder of ''Al Tariq'' (The Way), which teaches the principles of nonviolent resistance to Palestinian men, women, and children. He is also a member of the Bereaved Families Forum, and tours the world together with Robi Damelin, a Jewish woman whose son was killed by a Palestinian sniper, to encourage dialogue and reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis. His life and work has been featured in two award-winning films, ''Encounter Point'' and ''Forbidden Childhood''.〔 He lives in Beit Ummar, near Hebron. At the start of 2014, together with Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger〔http://www.webyeshiva.org/staff.php?tid=9802〕〔http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/rabbis-without-borders/author/hschlessinger/〕〔http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/hanan-schlesinger/〕〔http://www.rabbiswithoutborders.org/?q=alumni#alumni〕 and others, Awwad formed "Roots", a group based in the West Bank area of Gush Etzion to promote dialog and eventually trust between Israelis and Palestinian as a path to peace.〔http://friendsofroots.net/index.html〕 ==Biography== Awwad's family were refugees from Al-Qubayba near Bayt Jibrin, who were forced off their land in the 1948 Palestine war and subsequently settled in Beit Ummar. Born in Halhoul, Hebron Governorate in the West Bank, Awwad was raised in a politically active refugee family and, following in his mother's footsteps (he saw her beaten up by Shin Bet agents when he was 10,〔Elie Leshem, ('In a settler’s living room, a Palestinian reaches out,' ) The Times of Israel 4 March 2015.〕 and she was arrested several times and spent four years in Israeli prisons) became a member of Fatah. He served two prison sentences. His first arrest occurred while studying for his secondary exams, after an Israeli helicopter observer reported seeing him throw stones. He refused to pay a 1,500 shekel fine, stating later that, while a stone-thrower, he had not engaged in that activity on the day,〔and served three months in prison in the Negev. Eight months later, he took part in the First Intifada as a teenager, and was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison in Israel on charges of stone-throwing, throwing Molotov cocktails, and being part of a military cell. According to Awwad, his major crime consisted in refusing to cooperate with his interrogators who wanted information concerning his mother's activities, and the charges were trumped up for this reason.〔〔 He served four years and was released after the signing of the Oslo Accords,〔 and confined to Jericho. In 1993, after a 17 day hunger strike he managed to get his confiners to allow his request that he see his mother, who was at the time also in prison.〔 The success of his strike was a turning point, as he realized that non-violent protest along Gandhian principles might be a better way to defend one's rights.〔 On his release, he was recruited by the PLO as a policeman, and began arresting and interrogating fellow Palestinians, until he resigned in shame in 1997.〔 On 20 October 2000, after the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada, during the Second Intifada, he was shot in the leg by an Israeli settler driving a Subaru station wagon with Israeli license plates. He later learnt that the man had killed another Palestinian in Halhul that same day.〔 He was evacuated to Saudi Arabia, where he received medical treatment. Awwad says that on returning, he learnt of his brother Youssef's death, allegedly shot at point-blank range in the head by an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint located just outside their village. Awwad claimed that his brother had been shot for talking back to a soldier, in violation of a new regulation he was unaware of.〔 Awwad received training in the principles of nonviolent resistance from Mubarak Awad, founder of the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence. Inspired by the teachings of Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi, Awwad founded al-Tariq, which teaches the principles of nonviolent resistance to more than 1,500 men, women, and children.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ali Abu Awwad, Palestine: Creating social change through non-violent practice )〕 Together with his mother and brother Khalid, Awwad also became a member of Bereaved Families Forum, an organisation founded by Yitzhak Frankenthal, an Orthodox Jew whose son had been kidnapped and killed by Hamas activists.〔 This organisation brings together Israelis and Palestinians who have suffered bereavements in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with an emphasis on dialogue – both in individual encounters between Palestinians and Israelis, and public dialogue – to raise awareness and promote nonviolence. At the Forum, Awwad met and was befriended by Robi Damelin, a Jewish woman who made aliyah from South Africa in 1967.〔 Damelin's son, David, a peace activist and officer in the IDF who opposed service in the Occupied Territories, was killed by a Palestinian sniper at a checkpoint in the West Bank in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Encounter Point Protagonists )〕 Awwad and Damelin have toured the world together for several years, arguing that peace can only occur if reconciliation takes place between the victims.〔〔 He has built in the area where in June 2014 3 Israelis were kidnapped and then murdered a compound to serve as a centre for non-violence and dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis.〔 In the fall of 2014 and 2015 he toured the US with Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger discussing the how both Israelis and Palestinians can be "right" but that peace will require mutual understanding and honest dialog.〔http://friendsofroots.net/ali-and-hanan-touring-the-us.html〕〔http://friendsofroots.net/media-from-the-tour.html〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSOi9pqJA4〕 Challenged once by a Palestinian woman who called him a traitor who is creating obstacles for Palestinians who want to fight, Awwad is said to have replied: "If you feel that the Palestinian airplanes and tanks are locked away in a warehouse and I am holding the keys to prevent you from using them, then you can kill me".〔Awwad is a friend of rabbi Hanan Schlesinger who has invited him to address the settler community at Alon Shvut.〔 David Shulman describes him as one of the leaders of a new generation of non-violent resisters in Palestine, and quotes him as arguing: "The Jews are not my enemy; their fear is my enemy. We must help them to stop being so afraid – their whole history has terrified them – but I refuse to be a victim of Jewish fear anymore". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ali Abu Awwad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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