To calm myself, I started begging God to take mercy on me and save me from these men and their guns.I remembered the words of my mother after Israeli soldiers beat my father.She told us to put our fear and anger aside and pray for the poor soldiers, who were also afraid because they were away from their homes in Israel.
I began to feel bad for the soldiers.I wondered: Where do they sleep and are they afraid of little children like me? What kind of food do they eat? Do they have big or small families? My fear eased a bit as I pictured the soldiers as people I knew.Although my 20 minutes under the truck seemed like an eternity, I believe that shedding my fear literally saved my life.
Thirty-six years later I look around and see another kind of devastation created by fear.After Sept.11, the Arab and Muslim community segregated themselves because of the level of suspicion directed at them from others.Fear of association because of ethnicity led many to retreat
within themselves and their community.They stopped socializing with non-Arab/Muslim colleagues and neighbors.Once again, we allow differences to separate us because of fear.
I believe it is fear we should be fighting not the “other”.We all belong to the same human tribe;that kinship supersedes our differences.We are all soldiers patrolling the road, and we’re all little children hiding under the truck.
1.The underlined word “chance” can be best replaced by ________.
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