With Ambassador Mouawad and With All Lebanese Who Believe in Peace With Israel and With All Peoples of the World, We Pray for the Healing of the Son of the Israeli Ambassador to America
Elias Bejjani/September 29/2026
مع السفيرة معوض ومع كل اللبنانيين المؤمنين بالسلام مع إسرائيل ومع كل دول العالم نصلي من أجل شفاء ابن السفير الإسرائيلي في أميركا
الياس بجاني/29 أيلول/2026
بقلب يعتصره الألم، وبإيمان لا يتزعزع بقيمة الإنسان وقدسية الحياة، أقف اليوم، وكما وقفت لحظة سماعي بنبأ الجريمة النكراء، لأرفع صلاتي بخشوع وتضرع من أجل شفاء الشاب نيريا لايتر، نجل سعادة سفير إسرائيل في الولايات المتحدة السيد يحيئيل لايتر.
لقد تعرض هذا الشاب المؤمن، رب العائلة، وأب لأربعة أطفال، لهجوم إرهابي جبان في الضفة الغربية، حيث قام إرهابي جهادي فلسطيني بدهسه بسيارته عمداً وبسرعة جنونية. ولقد قتل الإرهابي في المواجهة مع قوى الأمن، فيما نُقل نجل السفير مصاباً بجروح خطيرة للغاية إلى مستشفى شعاري تصيدق في القدس، حيث أجريت له عدة عمليات جراحية دقيقة، وهو لا يزال بين الموت والحياة، غائباً عن الوعي.
إن كأس الموت المرّة تتجرعها عائلة السفير للمرة الثانية. فبالأمس القريب، ومع بداية حرب غزة، فقدت نجله البكر وكان أباً لستة أولاد. واليوم، يأتي إرهاب الحقد نفسه ليستهدف فلذة كبده الثانية. وهو رغم كل هذا الألم، لا يزال رأساً لحكمة السلام، ويترأس وفد بلاده في محادثات السلام مع لبنان، مؤمناً بعمق أن السلام هو قدرنا.
إن ما جرى هو اعتداء مباشر على السلام نفسه. ولهذا، أعيد وأكرر اليوم ما قلته يوم إصابته: أنا، الياس بجاني، ومعي كل لبناني حر وشريف ومؤمن ووطني ممن يشاطرونني توجهاتي الوطنية والسياسية والإيمانية، ننحني أمام ألمك، ونصلي معك ومع عائلتك.
وأتوجه بتحية إكبار وإجلال لسعادة سفيرة لبنان في الولايات المتحدة، السيدة ندا معوض، التي ترأس وفد بلادنا في محادثات السلام مع إسرائيل إلى جانب زميلها السفير لايتر، على موقفها الإنساني والأخلاقي النبيل حين اتصلت بزميلها وتمنت لابنه الشفاء العاجل. وهذا هو الحد الأدنى الذي يفرضه الضمير الإنساني، وأبسط قواعد القيم السلمية. لكنها تعرضت لحملة شعواء وبربرية وحاقدة من قبل جماعات الحقد والكراهية والظلامية المتمثلة بحزب الله الإرهابي والجهادي والمجرم، وأبواقه الشيطانية فأُجبرت على نفي هذا الاتصال الإنساني. أحيي السفيرة معوض لأنها تمثل لبنان الحقيقي، لبنان الرسالة والسلام. وأما من انتقدها فهم لا يمثلون إلا ثقافة الموت التي دمرت وطننا.
ومع كتابنا المقدس نقول بصوت عال: “طُوبَى لِصَانِعِي السَّلَامِ، لأَنَّهُمْ أَبْنَاءَ اللهِ يُدْعَوْنَ.” (متى 5: 9). فيا رب، ضع يدك الشافية على جسد نيريا لايتر. أعده سالماً إلى زوجته وأطفاله الأربعة، وإلى والده المفجوع. وليكن شفاؤه رسالة بأن الحياة ستنتصر دائماً على الموت، وأن السلام سينتصر حتماً على الإرهاب.
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With Ambassador Mouawad and With All Lebanese Who Believe in Peace With Israel and With All Peoples of the World, We Pray for the Healing of the Son of the Israeli Ambassador to America
Elias Bejjani/September 29/2026
With Ambassador Mouawad and With All Lebanese Who Believe in Peace With Israel and With All Peoples of the World, We Pray for the Healing of the Son of the Israeli Ambassador to America. With a heart wrenched with pain, and with an unwavering faith in the value of man and the sanctity of life, I stand today, as I stood the moment I heard the news of the heinous crime, to raise my prayer in reverence and supplication for the healing of the young man Neriya Leiter, the son of His Excellency the Ambassador of Israel to the United States, Mr. Yechiel Leiter.
This faithful young man, a family man and a father of four children, was subjected to a cowardly terrorist attack in the West Bank, where a Palestinian Jihadi terrorist deliberately rammed his car into him at full speed while he was on reserve duty. The terrorist criminal was killed in the confrontation with the Israeli security forces, while the Ambassador’s son was transported with extremely serious wounds and injuries to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where he underwent several delicate surgical operations, and he is still to this moment between life and death, unconscious.
The bitter cup of death is being tasted by the Ambassador’s family for the second time. Just recently, at the beginning of the Gaza war, he lost his eldest son, who was a father of six children and fell defending his country and his people. And today, the same terror of hatred comes to target his second son. Yet despite all this pain, he remains a pillar of the wisdom of peace, and heads his country’s delegation in the peace talks with Lebanon, believing deeply that peace is our destiny.
What happened is not merely a ramming attack. It is a direct attack on peace itself. It is a despicable attempt to assassinate everyone who believes in peace and works for it. They target you because you are a man of peace. They target you because you chose the language of dialogue instead of the language of rockets, and the culture of life instead of the culture of death.
Therefore, I repeat today what I said on the day he was injured: I, Elias Bejjani, the Lebanese expatriate activist, together with every free, honorable, faithful, and patriotic Lebanese who shares my national, political, and faith-based orientations, bow before your pain, and we pray with you and with your family, and we join our prayers to the prayers of hundreds of thousands around the world whom you yourself asked to pray for your son. “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2)
And in this painful yet honorable context, I must pause with reverence and respect before the noble humanitarian and moral stance of Her Excellency the Ambassador of Lebanon to the United States, Mrs. Nada Homsi Mouawad, who heads our country’s delegation in the peace talks with Israel alongside her colleague Ambassador Leiter. Israeli media reported that Ambassador Mouawad, out of purely humanitarian motives, contacted her Israeli colleague and wished his son a speedy recovery. This is the bare minimum dictated by human conscience, and the most basic rule of peaceful, moral, and diplomatic values.
But, as expected in an occupied and hijacked Lebanon, a savage, barbaric, and hateful campaign was launched against her by the groups of hatred, bigotry, obscurantism and inhumanity, represented by the terrorist, jihadi, and criminal Hezbollah, its media mouthpieces and its electronic flies, and she was forced to deny this humanitarian contact.
Today I extend a salute of admiration and reverence to Ambassador Nada Mouawad for her courageous humanitarian and moral gesture. She represents the true Lebanon, the Lebanon of the message, the Lebanon of peace, the Lebanon that the majority of my Lebanese people want. As for those who criticized and attacked her, they represent nothing but the culture of death and graves, the culture of hatred that has destroyed our homeland and turned it into a cemetery for the living.
I say to them loudly: “Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.” (Proverbs 26:5)
And I conclude my prayer and solidarity with these holy words which are the constitution of my life: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” (Matthew 5:9). “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:21)
O Lord, God of Peace, place Your healing hand upon the body of Neriya Leiter. Bring him back safely to his wife and his four children, and to his bereaved father and mother. Grant the Leiter family strength and hope. And let his healing be a message that life will always triumph over death, and that peace will inevitably triumph over terrorism. I pray, and all free Lebanese who support my positions pray with me.
