As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat
please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any shell to come, not all of them to be killed. then, 16th january, 4.45pm, i didn t believe it, because shelling, bombing was from everywhere around us. then it was my daughters and my niece that on that time. and now history repeats itself. i don t want anyone on earth to see what did i see. where is bessan? where is mayar? where is nour? where is aya? they become parts, drowning in their blood. mayar was decapitated. i can t recognise them. i lost faith in humanity at that time. and you had lost your wife to leukaemia just. four months before. ..a few months before. so i
my guest is a palestinian doctor, izzeldin abuelaish, whose three daughters and niece were killed in an israeli tank strike on his home in the gaza strip in 2009. at the time, he said he felt no bitterness. and, soon after, he published his award winning autobiography called i shall not hate. now, he has lost 22 more family members in these current bombings. is he still preaching his message of forgiveness and peace? dr izzeldin abuelaish, welcome to hardtalk. now, nearly 15 years ago, you lost three of your eight children when an israeli shell fell on your home in gaza. please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any
dr izzeldin abuelaish, welcome to hardtalk. now, nearly 15 years ago, you lost three of your eight children when an israeli shell fell on your home in gaza. please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any shell to come, not all of them to be killed. then, 16th january, 4.45pm, i didn t believe it, because shelling, bombing was from everywhere around us. then it was my daughters and my niece that on that time. and now history repeats itself. i don t want anyone on earth to see what did i see. where is bessan? where is mayar? where is nour? where is aya? they become parts, drowning in their blood. mayar was decapitated.
now, nearly 15 years ago, you lost three of your eight children when an israeli shell fell on your home in gaza. please do relate to us what happened. 16th january 2009. ..were what we called a war. and what is war? war is not the soldier who is going to kill and to be killed. it s about innocent human being, in particular, women and the children. during the 21 days of the war, with my children at my home, expecting the worst, who will be killed? i used to let three of my children to sleep beside each wall, in case any shell to come, not all of them to be killed. then, 16th january, 4.45pm, i didn t believe it, because shelling, bombing was from everywhere around us. then it was my daughters and my niece that on that time. and now history repeats itself. i don t want anyone on earth to see what did i see. where is bessan? where is mayar? where is nour? where is aya? they become parts, drowning in their blood. mayar was decapitated. i can t recognise them. i lost faith in huma