Humanity Sub Themes 1. Forgiveness

in his family by creating the peace between the two states. His vision of coexistence is deep, strong, and consistent-unshaken even the tragedy so enormous that he has experienced. It is important to feel anger on the tragedy which has been happened to him. But Abuelaish directs his anger in a focused way, never spreading it wide and letting the anger overwhelm and distract him from where he should be going. Besides that, the Quran becomes his central faith in this life which always taught forgiveness value to him. He also forgives people who have been made his three precious daughters and niece died and vowed not to hate them.

3.2.2. Humanity

Humanity is created because there is empathy feeling on something that has been happened. A person who has this humanity value in himherself is going to do something which can make another people feel happy because of what she has done. Abuelaish includes as a person who has the humanity value in himself. He cares about people and always wants to give the contribution in helping many people who need help. Moreover, he also thinks that all of people who have born in this world have the rights to live better. Live to get more health, to get an education, and live to respect each other without see the people from what country they are. His thinking include in Human Rights which is conceived as egalitarian the same for everyone. The situation that he has experienced since he is kid in refugee camp, makes him has become accustomed to seek the job to fulfill the basic requirements of his family need. It makes him strong and saw himself as a Universitas Sumatera Utara conduit that can bring news of the suffering in the refugee camp to the outside world through the education which he has reached. He is very aware of the suffering of his people and not only care with his family, but also the lives of Palestinians. He believes the weapon he need is not a rock or a gun but an education so that he can fight for human rights and help all the Palestinian people and his family by improving their lives with his knowledge. It can be seen in the quotation below: Someone had to start paying attention to what was happening to the Palestinians. They didn’t have proper health care or education; not even enough food. There was no end to the needs of the Palestinian people, the need of my family and even the size of my own career goals. In my culture we don’t study just to improve ourselves; we study to raise the standard of living for our brothers and sisters. My family saw me as a role model, and goodness knows we were all in agreement about the need to improve the lives of Palestinians. Abuelaish, 2011:75-76 Abuelaish loves his family who always support him. He is going to do everything to give happiness for people around him. In this case, his parents become the main factor why he should work hard to get better life. At the moment, his humanity has made him feel so guilty and hopeless when his father has slipped into coma, it is because he can not help his father from coma even he is a doctor. Until finally his beloved father has died before he can see his success. He has reached all of his success for his parents and his family, but his father can not see that. Because of that accident, there are the things that he will do as a Muslims for the dead of his father; share his knowledge and wisdom with others, pray for him, and give to charity in his good names. When he slipped into a coma, we took him home, as there was nothing else the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where I was working, could Universitas Sumatera Utara do. As a doctor, I felt so helpless. I was the one who was supposed to help the patient, but this patient, my own father, could not be saved. I had vowed that once I graduated, my family would have a better home, enough to eat, and my father would know what he meant to me. Abuelaish, 2011:78 Another supporting statement in creating humanity is Abuelaish dedicates his life by his genuine compassion to help the married couples to get a baby and help the mothers to give birth a new baby into the world without see from what country they are. He thinks that human is created to be social and to live with other people. From his thinking, he also educates his children with humanity value in order that they can be the real social creatures who can give the contribution in making the world peace. I have dedicated my life to peace, to healing, to bringing babies into the world, to solving the problems of the infertile. My work involves doing joint research projects with Israeli physicians; for years I’ve been something of a one-man task force bringing injured and ailing Gazans for treatment in Israel. This is the path I believed in and what I raised and educated my children to believe in. Abuelaish, 2011:197 The related from what he has done for his family and everyone around him is; Abuelaish can be called as a person who has raised the human dignity. His humanity is created by his empathy feeling on the accident that has been happened around him. He believes that all of people have born in this world have the rights to live better. Because of that, he is going to do everything to make everyone have the feeling in getting humanity treatment through education and health care. Universitas Sumatera Utara

3.2.3. Power