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

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

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

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

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

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

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.