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 AbulhawaTag: israel palestine israeli-palestinian-conflict
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 AbulhawaTag: palestine
For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.
Susan AbulhawaTag: israel palestine israeli-palestinian-conflict
لو لم أكن أعرف الشهامة الدائمة لدى الناس في المخيم، لخَشيتُ أن أكون هناك وحدي بعد حلول الظلام.
Susan AbulhawaTag: faithfulness palestine
I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.
Susan AbulhawaTag: crying tears sad palestine
The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.
Susan AbulhawaTag: soldiers fearless scared bad-guys
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.
Susan AbulhawaTag: peace forget breeze curtains
Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
Susan AbulhawaTag: blood promise arab broken
إن لحظة واحدة لَيُمكنُها أن تسحق دماغاً وتُغير مجرى الحياة، مسار التاريخ.
Susan AbulhawaAn instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.
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