On Monday April 4, 2011, the talented and charismatic actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis was cowardly assassinated at close range with more than five shots in the presence of his young daughter by a group of hooded men.
The brutal attack was perpetrated in the city of Jenin in the vicinity of the Liberty Theatre, which he founded in cooperation with the former terrorist of the Brigades of Al-Aksa Martyrs Zakaria Zubeidi.
His body was taken in a Palestinian ambulance to a military checkpoint and from there he led the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv for further investigation.
Julian was buried Wednesday in a Kibbutz Ramot Menashe in the Galilee in northern Israel near the grave of his mother, Orna Mer.
Julian was born 52 years ago in the midst of a very special family:
His mother was a Jewish Israeli human rights activist, Orna Mer born in Rosh Pina who in his youth fought in the Palmach and the Israel Defense Forces during the War of Independence.
His maternal grandfather, Gideon Mer, was an important symbol of the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. An immigrant from Lithuania, a pioneer in the eradication of malaria through the draining of marshes in the former Palestine during the British Mandate.
His father was Saliba Khamis, a Christian Arab from Nazareth and leader of the Israeli Communist Party in the early 50's.
After his father fell in love, marry and settle in the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth, Julian was born in 1958. He did his military service in the Israeli army as a combatant in the brigade of paratroopers. Following his military service was devoted to the theater film and television, where he excelled as an actor and director.
Perhaps what most marked the life of Julian may have been the ethnic or religious background of his family as special or peculiar perhaps the political concerns of their parents.
During a recent interview was asked if he considered Arab or Jew, he replied: "I am one hundred percent one hundred percent Palestinian and Jew," "being here in Jenin I feel more Jewish than ever ".
His ultimate dream was to become a link between both countries although in recent years in full solidarity with the Palestinian cause and proposed a single state for Palestinians and Israelis.
Julian was subjected to serious threats to his life and described as "a Zionist", a "fifth column" and "a traitor" by the fact of being a child of a Jewish mother and considered that their project theater students away to their armed struggle against Israel and favors a peaceful solution.
Juliano Mer-Khamis who was killed by the bullets of hatred and Islamic fundamentalism, really deserves to become the great symbol of peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis.
But unfortunately still, there were no mass demonstrations of protest, indignation and condemnation for this heinous crime.
even Unfortunately, thousands of Palestinians progressive, staunch Israeli peace activists and human rights defenders are not marched through the wide world.
Juliano you were, you are and be a true symbol of the tremendous contradictions of this suffering and bloody land without peace.
Juliano Mer-Khamis left, resources and be a renewed hope that peace that takes so long to reach the Land of Israel.
I'm sure come this time of peace we so desperately need and long for, but we have to create other conditions very different from today, we must build stronger and more solid foundation and we need a key ingredient called justice, real justice, not pantomime, in order to really sustain this large building called: True Peace.
You who love peace and justice so necessary for a harmonious coexistence among peoples and among men: What do you think of this peace that is taking so long to arrive?
"It would be very sad that after all I've done for the youth of the Jenin refugee camp, I was killed by a Palestinian bullet." Juliano Mer-Khamis.
Guido Maisuls
Kiryat Bialik, Israel, IL
If not me who?, If not now when?
Guido Maisuls
Kiryat Bialik, Israel, IL
If not me who?, If not now when?
if only for me, "that serve?
(Hillel )
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