She didn’t lash out in the shuttle bus or argue with Amos. Was it due to her advanced age, or was it because she had lived with Jews in Palestine all her life? They were never the “other” to her. They were Palestinians, too, Palestinians who happened to practice a different faith. As for me, I’ve always lived my life not wanting to grant my aggressors the power of destroying who I am because I know that hatred corrodes the container it’s in. Israel might have stolen my home, but it wasn’t going to steal my soul.
