An hour of sunlight : one Palestinian's journey from prisoner to peacemaker
As a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, Sami Al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends, he began to build a bomb to use against the police. But when it exploded prematurely, killing one of his friends, Al Jundi was sentenced to ten years in an Israeli prison. In jail, Al Jundi's unlikely transformation toward nonviolence began. He was welcomed into a highly organized, democratic community of Palestinian politica...
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