"What drove me to completing Blood Brothers was the human drama - the compassion and the rare treasure of peace within Elias Chacour that I wanted to discover for myself. His is a true account that moved me as few before - an account of faith in the midst of indignity, hatred, and violence in the furnace that is the Middle East." (pp. 15-16 - Introduction by David Hazard, American journalist who wrote this autobiography for Elias Chacour)

"Row after row of fig trees spread for several acres, stretching down the hill away from our house, covering the slope with rustling greenery. The broadening leaves concealed a fresh-water spring and a dark, mossy grotto where our goats and cattle sheltered themselves in summer. Beyond our orchards rose the lush majestic highlands of the upper Galilee. They looked purple in the distance - 'the most beautiful land in all...