وأحسب أن اليهودي إنسان والصهيوني إنسان آخر، وكان جدي مثلًا حيًا من لحم ودم لليهودي الصالح الذي كفل يتيمًا مسلمًا معوزًا مثلي، ويسر له كل سبل الحياة على قدر ما يستطيع، بل وفضله على غيره من أحفاده الخُلَصّ. جدي الذي لم يفرق بين دينه الذي يحبه ووطنه الذي ولد وتربى فيه، فكلاهما مقدس لديه وواجب الاحترام.
I hold that the Jew is one person and the Zionist another, and my grandfather was a living example in flesh and blood of the righteous Jew who took in a needy Muslim orphan like me, eased every path in life for him as far as he could, and even preferred him over his own full-blooded grandchildren. My grandfather, who never set the religion he loved against the homeland where he was born and raised: both were sacred to him and deserving of respect.
From the novel Days in the Diaspora · Chapter 22
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