Aziz Abu Sarah

You get an onion in there.

My parents, being religious Muslims, don't drink alcohol.

And I never understood, how do you make a child if you don't have a bottle of wine with that?

There are holidays, birthdays.

Yes.

It happens.

No, but he, basically, my parents handed me to him.

And he's the one who took me to school my first day.

He's the one who protected me.

He's the one who took care of me.

And when he died, I felt like my protector is gone.

It took me eight years because when you're 10 years old, you feel somebody... It felt like somebody punched me in the face.

And if somebody punches you in the face, you feel when you're 10, you punch back.

And I felt I would be a terrible brother if I don't.

But at 18, I went to study Hebrew for the first time in my life.

And my Hebrew teacher was an Israeli Jewish woman.

All my class was Jewish immigrants to Israel.

And I met the first Israeli ever who treated me like a human being.

that looked at me at 18.

I met many Israelis, usually soldiers at checkpoints or settlers who came into our towns and burned homes and cars and so on.