Hisham Awartani
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33 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Well, yeah, because I'm here. The connection is not that home per se will cease to exist. I'll just lose the right to be here. I don't know. It's uncertainty. Would you say so?
So if they're encouraging people to leave, then they stop people from coming back at some point. But again, because Ramallah is such a bubble, you're kind of sheltered from everything. Because life goes on pretty normally in Ramallah. Definitely from last time, people are more depressed and hopeless and whatever. But in terms of day-to-day livelihood, you feel more unaffected.
I think actually her bigger concern was, I think she just wanted me to do physical therapy for as long as I could. It's not that I didn't care about it, but it's something that I felt like, how much is physical therapy going to help if I'm miserable?
I mean, I think it's like... Actual policy aside, the feeling that the Israeli government will get, they feel like they've been written more of a blank check than they're already being written. Because policy-wise, if you look at on the ground what will change in terms of material support, it's not like the previous administration was putting any checks.
I think Israel is just more emboldened with Trump in office.
It's been good. I have my routine, and the routine is nice. It's like, okay, I think I have things figured out, and like, you know, just go to class, go back to class.
It was really good. I was afraid that they would have forgotten me, but they didn't. And then, like, one of them was, like, actually even more affectionate because, like, I think she missed me. That's what I hope, so.
I don't know, maybe it's like naive, but it's like just going back there and like seeing life there being lived as it is. is something that's like mixed annexation and like expulsion, like more concrete idea. Like if you're thinking about the abstract, it's like you worry about it more versus like, okay, like it's going to be like a big logistical issue.
I guess like what calmed me down is like, wow, like whatever happens, it's going to be really logistically complicated. And I feel like hopefully I'll be able to slip through the cracks. You know, if annexation happens, I can just like take academic leave and then go back home real quick and then like somehow like figure my situation out.
I have a good idea. It's like, OK, like I take these clothes. I have some medical supplies that I need to always take with me. Books wise, like, yeah, maybe I take like one or two books for the journey. But like I have so many books back home, it's kind of like superfluous. It's like bringing cold to Newcastle.
I think I told them. I don't know if they thought I was joking or something.
I think, for better or for worse, Trump think too much about things too far ahead. You know, like annexation, I feel like is like something that now feels more pressing and like salient. But like, I'm not going to think about like it's going to happen like 20 years in the future. In a large part, it's the time frame that lots of these things are working on. Who knows? I'm 21 years old.
In the period of time that I've been alive, it's been a slow push. It's like I'm the frog in the boiling pot.
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