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Vol 1 - issue 70 ELITE
"Palestine as a question posed to the for safety, for a seat at the table of the
world: Will you accept that some powerful. Ibtehal speaks for those who
lives matter less, so long as yours believe the land, and its memory, is
remains untouched? worth the weight of exile and of
For Dalia Ziada, the answer was yes, sacrifice.
wrapped in the language of "peace" Neither woman will change the fate of
and "democracy." For Ibtehal Abou Palestine alone.
El Saad, the answer was a clear and History is not actually moved by
uncompromising no. Their individuals as much as it is moved by
choices,helped in the shaping of a collective suffering and hope. But in
war that is not only about land, but the long nights of occupation, when
about conscience. the bombs are coming from
There is a proverb that deeply everywhere above them, it is the
resonate with Palestine: Ibtehals of the world who light small,
We do not inherit the land from our stubborn fires against this evil
ancestors; we borrow it from our existence.
children." Those Ibtehals may be few, but they
Dalia speaks for those who believe will not be forgotten, because memory
the land is lost, that it must be is the first act of resistance. In the end,
bartered away for peace, history will know the difference.
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