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" Well, you can't say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It's a very international cosmopolitan community. That's very helpful. "
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Lucky
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" Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state. "
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" A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play. "
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" My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought. "
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" Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant. "
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" Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't? "
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" A trip to Tel Aviv is a ritual. I always wear the same clothes to Tel Aviv: black pants and a blue-checked shirt that I bought especially from Ralph Lauren. "
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" Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children. "
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" Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie. "
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" I can never get to sleep without a book. "
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Sleep
Get
" All Israelis think Arabs steal cars. "
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Arabs
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" Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things. "
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" All in all, we Muslims have only two holidays, and they're always getting moved around from season to season, from month to month, because we're dependent on the moon and not the sun, and unlike the Jews, we haven't created a leap year, so we have no Adar Bet. "
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Always
Moon
" I wanted to bring likable Arabs into the average Israeli living room. "
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Bring
" 'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace. "
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Safe
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" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "
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Start
Me
Life
" Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work. "
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Sometimes
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" It's problematic being an Arab who writes in Hebrew. "
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Who
Problematic
" I once wrote that the first week in Jerusalem was the hardest week of my life. I was different, other; my clothes were different, as was my language. All of the classes were in Hebrew - science, bible, literature. I sat there not understanding one word. When I tried to speak, everyone would laugh at me. "
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" The truth is, I never travel without cash. I always take a few tens with me in case of an emergency. There's never been an emergency, and in time, I realized that Americans don't want to touch customers' dirty bills. They also don't want to touch your credit card: you have to put it through the machine yourself, with your own fingers. "
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Yourself
Time
Truth
" It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent. "
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Take Care
My Life
" Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else. "
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Israel
Anything
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" The Palestinians have tried everything, and by God, it's Israel's governments that taught us that the only thing the Israelis appreciate is force. "
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Vacation
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Onion
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Meet
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