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161 " The first attack had been a decoy to divert resources from subsequent ones. It occurred at a remote checkpoint. Two soldiers were killed with a torrent of arrows from three comrades "
― Susan Abulhawa , Against the Loveless World
162 " The automatic weapons and hand grenades seized from the dead soldiers were used to attack the Israeli reinforcements. "
163 " They used what working guns they had obtained from the Russian smugglers. As Israeli soldiers began to retreat inside the fortified terminal, Ghassan’s brigade descended upon them. "
164 " Samer remained in Moscow, where he continued to run the website with Jehad, and expanded it to multiple networks. "
165 " The sweet do not forget the sweets. "
166 " but it was not long before the resistance regrouped and a Third Intifada ignited, even capturing two Israeli soldiers and holding the remains of two dead ones. It happened not so long ago. The underground city has remained our secret. "
167 " It wasn’t the first time I had heard such a thing during the time it had taken for my breasts to sag and my hair to turn to ash. "
168 " I can see in the eyes of those around me that I am not the person they remember. I have no feelings on that or any other matter. "
169 " I feel color and texture transform what is dull and desiccated. "
170 " It’s the reason Kuwait let me out of prison and deported me to Iraq through Jordan, "
171 " It was terrible to be at their mercy, but thankfully Saddam still ensured free health care and social services even under American sanctions. "
172 " Abu Moathe was one of the rare mitkawteen, Palestinians who had been granted Kuwaiti citizenship, "
173 " Most mitkawteen were intellectuals and high-born merchants who took pride in being Palestinian. "
174 " a US president who was the son of the president who bombed Iraq when we still lived in Kuwait. This time they reduced Babylon, that once splendid, sophisticated, ancient civilization, to nothing. They made beggars of her teachers, taxi drivers of her doctors; and they made off with her treasures and artifacts. "
175 " Americans are the devil,” she said. "
176 " It means fate lacks imagination, "
177 " He agreed never to strike my face or neck where marks would be visible, as long as he could bruise the rest of me. "
178 " We’re all part of each other. When you see what the Americans have done to us, what they’ve done to Iraq, Libya… And it breaks our hearts, all of us. "
179 " The lyrics of Um Kulthum, the plaint of a ney, the melody of a qanuun or the rasp of an oud are the sounds of my life. "
180 " To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian? "
― Susan Abulhawa , Mornings in Jenin