Aziz Abu Sarah
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Oct 9, 2026
Tony MaciulisCORRESPONDENT
Next, my conversation about the human cost of three years of conflict.
Tony MaciulisCORRESPONDENT
I recently sat down with two unlikely friends brought together by profound loss, Maoz Inon, an Israeli whose parents were killed in the October 7th attacks, and Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian whose brother died after being imprisoned and tortured by Israeli authorities.
Tony MaciulisCORRESPONDENT
Three days after the attacks, Aziz reached out to Maoz, and their friendship became a shared mission to reject vengeance and imagine a different future.
Tony MaciulisCORRESPONDENT
Here's their story.
Tony MaciulisCORRESPONDENT
Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, uh, the book is called The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.
Tony MaciulisCORRESPONDENT
It's great to meet you both.
Maoz InonGUEST
Same here.
34 MINS LATER
Aziz Abu SarahGUEST
We just need more of it, and we need people who today believe in peace to start act upon that peace, and not just say, "I believe peace is good," is to say, "What do I do to make this reality?"
Sami ShahHOST
Mawaz Inon lost both his parents in the October 7th attack.
Sami ShahHOST
He now works with Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sara, whose brother died in injuries Aziz says he sustained in Israeli custody.
Sami ShahHOST
Listen to Mawaz speaking here.
Sami ShahHOST
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Asiye NamdarCORRESPONDENT
Maoz, have you forgiven the people who killed your parents and all those other Israeli families?
Maoz InanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is exactly the lesson I learned from my brother, my Palestinian brother, Aziz Abu Sara, who lost his brother after he was tortured in an Israeli prison.
Maoz InanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Aziz, for eight years, since the age of 10 to 18, was seeking revenge.
Maoz InanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
and wanted to avenge the death of his brother with every Israeli or Jew that he met or encountered.
Amy GoodmanHOST
In the aftermath of the attack, Inon called for peace and reconciliation rather than revenge.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Maoz Inon has spent much of the past year, of the past three years, working closely with Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah, whose brother died in 1990 from injuries from his time in an Israeli prison.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Last month, they addressed the United Nations Security Council.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Maoz Inon.
Aziz Abu SarahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We call for targeted sanctions on all individuals and institutions that support violence.
Aziz Abu SarahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Apply sanctions without partiality.
Amy GoodmanHOST
That was Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon addressing the United Nations just a few weeks ago.
Amy GoodmanHOST
They co-authored the book The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.
Amy GoodmanHOST
In the aftermath of the attack, Inon called for peace and reconciliation rather than revenge.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Maoz Inon has spent much of the past year, of the past three years, working closely with Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah, whose brother died in 1990 from injuries from his time in an Israeli prison.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Last month, they addressed the United Nations Security Council.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Maoz Inon.
Aziz Abu SarahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We call for targeted sanctions on all individuals and institutions that support violence.
Aziz Abu SarahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Apply sanctions without partiality.
Amy GoodmanHOST
That was Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon addressing the United Nations just a few weeks ago.
Amy GoodmanHOST
They co-authored the book The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.
Amy GoodmanHOST
In the aftermath of the attack, Inan called for peace and reconciliation rather than revenge.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Mao Zedong has spent much of the past year, of the past three years, working closely with Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sara, whose brother died in 1990 from injuries from his time in an Israeli prison.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Last month, they addressed the United Nations Security Council.
Amy GoodmanHOST
This is Mao Zedong.
Maoz InonGUEST
They all deserve to live within security, within dignity, and to have a home, a safe place to go to bed at night and to wake up in the morning with a smile and to be with their beloved and supporting family.
Maoz InonGUEST
And we must work as hard as we can to achieve it as soon as possible.
Amy GoodmanHOST
If you can talk about what happened in those days after you were in mourning with your family and you get this note from Aziz Abu Sara, who also lost his brother in that after brutality in an Israeli prison and what that meant to you and the journey you've been on since.
Maoz InonGUEST
Yeah, so two days after October 7th, me and my siblings were just sitting and crying and holding hands, and my young brother told us we must make a family decision based on moral clarity that we are rejecting revenge, that we don't want to avenge the death of our parents and explain that it's not going to bring them back to life.
Ria Czerniak-LeBovGUEST
So, you know, I mean, it's really lovely to think that you'd be, uh, on the right side of things, but I think it's so much more complicated than that, and I think dialogue and empathy go, uh, far away in kind of actually producing, like, progress in what I would say, like, hopefully forging a pathway towards peace.
Ria Czerniak-LeBovGUEST
And I think there's two, there's two activists in Israel, Maoz Inon, who lost both parents in October 7th, and Aziz Abu Sarah, um, whose, I think, brother, um, died after, um, injuries, um, inflicted by members of the IDF upon him.
Ria Czerniak-LeBovGUEST
And the two of them have toured all over the world, and they wrote a book together, um, about the pathway to peace.
Ria Czerniak-LeBovGUEST
And my favorite, like, they've given me so much inspiration and solace about the potential of peace because they say, "People look at us like we're naive," and I often get told I'm naive.
Gabby ReeceHOST
But as I, I get older and move through life, you, you learn that being able to forgive and to move on is one of the greatest things that impacts our spirits and our, and our health.
Gabby ReeceHOST
And when I learned about what you and Aziz Abu Sarah are doing together, you have a book out called The Future is Peace.
Gabby ReeceHOST
Um, you are from Israel, and he is Palestinian.
Gabby ReeceHOST
I had to talk to you.
Maoz InonGUEST
We're only gonna escalate the cycle of bloodshed and revenge between Israelis and Palestinians, a cycle that we've been trapped within for a century.
Maoz InonGUEST
And, and of course, we all agreed to follow my, my brother moral clarity.
Maoz InonGUEST
And a day after, I received a message in my Facebook from Aziz, Aziz Abu Sarah, a, a Palestinian that I met briefly, briefly through the travel industry that we were both working within.
Maoz InonGUEST
I met him briefly in 2014, and our Facebook, Facebook records show zero, uh, history till October 7th.
Chet WalzikNARRATOR
Coming up next on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have the Blindness and Disability News Hour from our friends at MindsEye.
Chet WalzikNARRATOR
At two o'clock is episode number one of The Future is Peace by Aziz Abu Sarah and Moaz Nan.
Chet WalzikNARRATOR
And following that, at three o'clock is Smithsonian Magazine.
Chet WalzikNARRATOR
Stay with us.
Maoz InonGUEST
Only they did.
Maoz InonGUEST
And three days after, Aziz Abu Sarah, who became literally my brother, is sharing a message of offering his condolences.
Maoz InonGUEST
And Aziz's brother was killed in the Israeli prison after he was tortured to death in the early 90s.
Maoz InonGUEST
And Aziz, too, chose reconciliation, chose forgiveness.
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