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It slowly dawned on Bassam that the only thing they had in common was that both sides had once wanted to kill people they did not know.
Beyond their immediate calls of distress, it is not known exactly how, or even if, different species of birds communicate with one another.
Beyond that, anything which creates emotional ties between human beings inevitably counteracts war. What had to be sought was a community of feeling, and a mythology of the instincts.
It struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.
If you divide death by life you will find a circle.
We are not doomed, but we have to try to smash the forces that have an interest in keeping us silent. It may sound strange but in Israel we don’t really know what the Occupation actually is. We sit in our coffee shops and we have a good time and we don’t have to deal with it. We have no idea what it’s like to walk through a checkpoint every day. Or to have our family land taken away. Or to wake up with a gun in our faces. We have two sets of laws, two sets of roads, two sets of values. To most Israelis this seems impossible, some sort of weird distortion of reality, but it is not. Because we
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My name is Rami Elhanan, I am the father of Smadar. I repeat it every day, and every day it becomes something new because somebody else hears it. I will tell it until the day I die, and it will never change, but it will keep on putting a tiny crack in the wall until the day I die.
