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. "Never let them know they hurt you" was their creed

Susan Abulhawa

Tags: israel palestine israeli-palestinian-conflict



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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?

Susan Abulhawa

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

Susan Abulhawa

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لو لم أكن أعرف الشهامة الدائمة لدى الناس في المخيم، لخَشيتُ أن أكون هناك وحدي بعد حلول الظلام.

Susan Abulhawa

Tags: faithfulness palestine



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

Susan Abulhawa

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The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.

Susan Abulhawa

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A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

Susan Abulhawa

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

Susan Abulhawa

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إن لحظة واحدة لَيُمكنُها أن تسحق دماغاً وتُغير مجرى الحياة، مسار التاريخ.

Susan Abulhawa


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

Susan Abulhawa


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