We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Love cannot reconcile with deception

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.