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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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