Ex-terrorist turns to Jesus
Tass Saada
What happens when people come to be followers of Jesus and do follow his guidance, walk in his footsteps, and start to live the way he prescribes? What happens to their lives?
Most of the time, when ordinary people follow Jesus, we don’t read about it in the media, because the media is interested in publishing spectacular stories that will inspire clicks. Every once in a while, though, someone will turn to Jesus whose life is really changed in a spectacular way. Such is the experience of Tass Saada, a former assassin, sniper, and terrorist for the Palestinian cause.
Consumed with hatred toward the Jews and toward the Israeli state for the injustice and abuse visited upon his Palestinian people, Saada exemplified the intractable conflict between Palestinians and Jews. As an outsider, as I looked at the Israeli-Hamas conflict from afar, I could see that only a change of heart of both Palestinians and Jews could solve the terrible conflicts. Only the love of Jesus could break the dreadful cycle of vengeance, retribution, and hostility that so characterizes the region. But what was the hope of such a thing ever happening? Little to none, so I thought.
Then I read about Saada. When persons from such a radical background as his turn to Jesus, we do well to listen to their story. They have a perspective that ordinary people like myself do not share, and often they have an inspiring hope from which we benefit.
You can read more about his story at CBN.com and at AllIsrael.com.
