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

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.

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.

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

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

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

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?