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How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty generations of his ancestors’ toil, without mortal consequence?
— Jun 03, 2024 10:28AM
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chloe
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And the way we love is no exception, Amal. It is the kind of love you can know only if you have felt the intense hunger that makes your body eat itself at night. The kind you know only after life shields you from falling bombs or bullets passing through your body. It is the love that dives naked toward infinity’s reach. I think it is where God lives.
— Jun 11, 2024 01:19AM
chloe
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We all crawled from the pits of dispossession and tried to survive as best we could under Israeli occupation. Our greatest pleasures were moments of normalcy. A crush on a boy. A card game. Telling dirty jokes while we washed our clothes by hand on the roof of the five-story building. Words of encouragement from a teacher... Our bond was Palestine. It was a language we dismantled to construct a home.
— Jun 04, 2024 08:26AM
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Forty generations with their imprinted memories, secrets, and scandals. All carried away by the notion of entitlement of another people, who would settle in the vacancy and proclaim it all — all that was left in the way of architecture, orchards, wells, flowers, and charm — as the heritage of Jewish foreigners arriving from Europe, Russia, the United States, and other corners of the globe.
— Jun 03, 2024 09:46AM
