And he was pacing back and forth in the room, and the tears were running down his cheeks. "Dalia, I saw him holding the lemon with both hands. Israel comprises 0.2 percent of the Middle East’s land mass. Do you know what I saw? My father, who is nearly blind." The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Bernis SeptemIt’s not about the land The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 didn’t take a significant amount of land from Middle Eastern Arabs. The Arab states agreed upon this policy unanimously. The noise was coming from this room right here. ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1948, the Beirut Daily Telegraph quoted Emil Ghory, secretary of the AHC, as saying: 'The fact that there are those refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. Even the movement of trees used to wake us. We were so nervous when the occupation started. A few days after we brought the lemons home, it was night, and I heard a movement in the house. It is the window that we open to look at our history. "To us, this lemon is more than fruit, Dalia," Bashir said slowly. They walked from the cabinet and took their seats in the living room. But why did you keep it? It has been almost four months now." It's one of those lemons from that visit. "Do you remember when me and my brother came to visit?.Yes? Do you remember that Kamel asked you for something as we left? And do you remember what you gave him as a gift?"ĭalia was silent for a moment, Bashir would recall.
Please tell me what you see in the cabinet."īooks, vases, a picture of Abdel Nasser. "Look at the cabinet and tell me what you see," Bashir said. Dalia followed Bashir, and the two stood looking through the glass. “Bashir walked toward a glass cabinet in the dining room.
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