This post that was first published by IMES in November 2018

It has been a rough week for Palestinians. They witnessed yet more Arab concessions to Israel. Their land continues to shrink. Their hopes of ever achieving freedom from oppression grow slimmer.

It has been a rough 70 years for Palestinians. A few settlers turned into a country. A supposedly World War related conflict has stretched out into an indefinite struggle for survival on the periphery.

I am Lebanese-Palestinian. I was blessed to be born Lebanese. My family took Lebanese nationality in the 1950s. I have lived through post-civil war Lebanon. In almost every way I am a Lebanese person.

But, I never had an answer to the questions of almost every school teacher, shopkeeper, and parents of friends…

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