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I was born seven years
after the Nakba
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And the testimonies
we heard yesterday
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—we've been hearing similar
testimonies for the past 20 months—
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keep reminding me
of the bedtime stories
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that my mother kept telling
me and my siblings
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about how she and her family
—entire family—
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were evicted from Beir Al-Sabaa
where she was born
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and where she was raised,
up to the age of 16
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and had to leave like hundreds
of thousands of other Palestinians.
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What happened...what
is happening today in Gaza
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is happening in
a modern technological warfare.
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But the principle
is one and the same.
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It happened to my mother before.
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It happened to so many
Palestinians in 1948.
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And since then, it has continued to
happen throughout this occupation.
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When a certain group of people
believe that God gave them
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a license to take other
people's lands, to kill them,
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to do whatever it takes to
remove them as an obstacle....
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how can you deal
with such a community?
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How can you deal
with such a mentality?
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It's impossible!
You cannot deal with them
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because they believe
they have a divine license!
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Just recently the BBC
showed a brilliant documentary
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about the settler movement
in the West Bank.
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And one of the settlers,
a lady I remembered
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from more than 20 years ago
when I saw her first interview ever,
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as far as I'm concerned,
on the BBC as well,
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when she was asked:
"How do you justify
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coming from Europe and doing
this to the Palestinians?"
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And she said: "Had God
not told me to do so,
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I would have been a criminal!"
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Blaming it on God!
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What sort of God is this?
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And that's why,
as Dr. Sammy explained,
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Zionism is not just a threat
to the Palestinians.
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Zionism, as an ideology, is a
threat to humanity as a whole!
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Actually, Zionism has been
the reincarnation of Nazism.
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Israel is a reincarnation
of the Third Reich!
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And the world is beginning
to recognize this.
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The young students in America,
in Europe, and elsewhere in the world
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are now realizing that their parents
and grandparents who supported
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or sympathized with Zionism,
for so many years, were sinners.
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They were wrong, because
you cannot do this anymore!
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Even Jewish students are now
saying: "Not in our name!"