Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.