Always" is a good word to believe in.

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

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

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.

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

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

Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.