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“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.”
― Gaza Writes Back
― Gaza Writes Back
“-أتعرفين ما هو الوطن يا صفية ؟ الوطن هو ألا يحدث ذلك كله .”
― عائد إلى حيفا
― عائد إلى حيفا
“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa for instance,I would never uproot a tree an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it”
― Gaza Writes Back
― Gaza Writes Back
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