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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.


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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.



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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.



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We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.



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We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.



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