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Arab Remembers Honesty of Jews Fifty Years Later. An Incredible Story!!!
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a friend of mine Steve clar from
Arcadian Development Group a company
that develops builds and renovates
nursing homes was traveling to
Cincinnati nearby Kentucky I had a
client who asked us to come look at two
properties and we were a little bit
short on time so Thanksgiving while
everyone was sleeping I took the early
flight 6 a.m he got off the flight
rented a car started driving and all of
a sudden it hit him he felt this wave of
exhaustion come over him here I was in
Kentucky on Thanksgiving you could
literally hear the birds chirping but I
was desperate for a coffee and just
looked for the nearest gas station he
gets into the gas station walks over to
the back to make himself a cup of coffee
and I hear that the owner at the
registers on the phone he's speaking
Arabic I woke up to the counter I put my
coffee down to take out my credit card
and he goes good morning how are you
without even looking up and I said and
he stopped that in his tracks
which means thank God now the guy is
intrigued how does this Jew know Arabic
so he tours to the guy in the phone he
says I gotta hang up he hangs up and he
turns to Steve and he says where are you
from how do you know my language how do
you know Arabic I said I went to school
in Israel I have children in Israel I
picked it up along the way and he starts
telling me how he loves us and I said
you you love us what do you mean you
love us and he says I love you guys
I said what guys he says the Jewish
people I said what do you love about
Jewish people he says well it's because
of what happened over 50 years ago when
I lived in Ramallah in Israel
we are 10 brothers and sisters we stay
in one room we were bored in the camp
we are the poor family in this Camp you
know what's mean sober when you have no
bread or oil or nothing nothing in home
in order to help support my family I had
to travel across the lines into
Jerusalem in Jerusalem there is a corner
you stay there with your food bag and
people they need any labor they pick you
up from there they be you every day of
his amount the guy we work for him is a
Jewish guy his name Moise it's called
betzafafa between Jerusalem and
Bethlehem we wear bent houses wig was
doing good we work and make him come
good and he's happy about us we were
good workers and then the Yom Kippur War
broke out in 1973. the Arabs launched a
surprise attack to regain some of the
territories in Israel that they lost in
The Six Day War in 1967 and they closed
immediately all the lines all the
borders and we couldn't travel to
Jerusalem to find work like we used to
even after the war ended we're still
afraid to get into Jerusalem to get work
we cannot keep working War where there's
no safe they were dirt poor not what you
and I imagined but absolutely literally
nothing not a chair to sit on you have
no food in home easy you have no bread
there is no welfare looks like USA to
help you with food stamps or somebody
nothing and one day the Israeli Army
bunch of soldiers come into Ramallah and
they're asking for my name they're
looking for me everybody's scared
everybody think to arrest me of course
he was terrified but they found him and
they knocked on his door and out of the
Jeep
Comes This contractor Moshe his name was
who also was a reserve General in the
Israeli army during the war she was able
to get these soldiers to join them in
Ramallah
stuck his hand into his bulletproof vest
and took out an envelope and handed it
to him and said here's your paycheck I'm
sorry I wasn't able to pay you before
the war broke out and it absolutely blew
him away we come in where we live with
the Army to be a meme what whatever
days I work for him and now I'm here 50
plus years later and you walk into my
gas station
I cannot tell you how much I love Jews
he's based here in Kentucky but he owns
more than 24 gas stations he builds
parking lots and truck stops he's a big
Tycoon you know whatever he bid means 60
70 100 that my old labor for me that
time I swear to God more than
Millions we were so poor I swear if I
know the full name I'm going looking for
him I'll give him hug and kiss him and I
tell him you teach me big lesson in my
life and then he said shortly after The
Innkeeper War my family moved to Kuwait
and we built a company construction
company for the next 15 years we grew
the company we were very successful and
then in 1990 Saddam Hussein attacked and
tried to invade Kuwait his army came in
overtook destroyed confiscated stole
everything we owned they took everything
even my car I run to the bank the bank
it was empty just walls to take some
money to buy milk for my kids these are
our brothers our Arab brothers and at
that point I thought to myself wow look
at the difference the Jewish guy after
two months is coming with the Army
looking for my name and he found me he
didn't know where I left he came with
the arm and he found me and he pay me
my work money in Kuwait they took
everything
everything I was really Blown Away how
he was blown away that here we are
almost 50 years later and he sees
someone walking into the gas station
early in the morning on a Thanksgiving
with the yamaka and he remembers
something kind that was done to him so
many years before even as I went to
Kentucky to interview Akram I can feel
the warm feelings that he had towards me
and the crew his willingness his desire
to spread that message all because Masha
this General acted in an honorable and
honest way