I remember the neighbors talking to my mother allah ykhalilik ibnik, (may god protect your son) , they drink the coffee and say : finajaa7 ibnik, (hoping for the success of your son) they didn’t even say wladek (your children). I was furious. I left home while being furious. What i am doing here? This is what i asked myself there, what am i doing here, this is what i ask myself here. I know I will be one of the first to be targeted in Palestine when we get rid of the occupation.
We have a very long way to go.
This reminded me of a joke. One time the Russian president, the French president and our ruler die, and they are talking to god, the Russian president asks, so god, when will the Russians rules the world, god said: in 200 years, Putin cries his eyes out: ' oh, not in my lifetime' he cries. The French guy asks the same question and cries 'not in my lifetime' when he knows it will be 500 years before the French will rule the world. Now our guy comes and asks god the same question, god cries:' not in my lifetime'.
We do have a very long way to go, peeling layers and layers of oppression and dealing with them, that's why the first thing we need to do is rise above religious, class, and tribe biases
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