Dana El-Kurd

So this phenomenon must exist at some level.

And I guess I shouldn't be surprised either, because Palestine's most well-known poet, Mahmoud Darwish, was famous for his poetry, among many of them, a poem he wrote to his Jewish girlfriend titled Rita.

Ironically, my parents and my maternal grandparents, all of which share national and religious identities, both ended up divorced.

But Rachel and her Palestinian Muslim husband somehow stayed together.

At the same time, Rachel turned a blind eye to many things.

And she herself hid many things.

For example, she doesn't reveal the details of her children raised as Israeli.

The interviewer in the Ma'arav magazine interview emphasizes that they wouldn't want their information known, especially about their lineage.

It seems that neither ever reconnected with their Palestinian father.

And most tellingly for me in that interview,

When my maternal grandmother, Rachel's daughter-in-law, complains of the Israeli soldiers in the neighborhood that she lived in, the interviewer reports that Rachel feigns deafness and returns the conversation to a discussion of the children.

They prefer to think of them, prefer to think of us, as the reincarnation of Nazis or the modern-day manifestation of anti-Semitism.

The Israeli state even grows pine trees over emptied and demolished Palestinian villages to ensure return is impossible and to hide the extent of what happened.

It's just an effort by Palestinians to put Israel in a bad light.

And governments the world over seem to have taken this position of turning a blind eye to the oppression Palestinians have faced and assuming Palestinians would live and die never having exercised their basic rights.

Number one hits, millions of records sold, awards, sold out tours.

You think the Jonas Brothers are satisfied?

Nope.

It's podcast time.

We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions.