Aziz Abu Sarra
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And my dad said yes.
And suddenly 70 other Palestinians in the room said, we want to go too.
And so they went.
It was not easy.
It was extremely hard.
They had tons of questions, questions that sometimes would be considered offensive, but it was important to talk about those questions because if you don't, then you're not having real dialogue.
And after the
The Israelis who saw us doing that said, we want to come and learn about your narrative.
Can you take us to a Palestinian village from 1948?
Tell us what happened from your story.
And it wasn't to compete.
It wasn't to compare.
It was we need to learn each other narrative.
We are so ignorant about what happened to the other.
Yeah, 1948.
May 1948 is a catastrophe for Palestinians.
It's the date where we lost our homeland.
It's the date where 750,000 Palestinians became refugees, some in Lebanon, some in Egypt, some in the West Bank, some in Jordan.
all over the world.