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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