H U R T

Ending Israel's illegal occupation, settlement expansion on Palestinian land, and oppression against innocent Palestinians are key for peace, justice, and prosperity in the region. I am not surprised by today's events. What else can one expect when Israel continues to deny Palestinians their legitimate right to self-determination and statehood? What else, after daily provocations, attacks by occupation forces and settlers, and raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque and other holy sites of Christianity and Islam?

The world must recognize that durable peace requires: ending occupation of Palestinian land, recognizing the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, and upholding Palestinians' right to independence and sovereignty.

Somewhere between reality and imagination, when feelings suppress your heart that it can't be kept anymore and thoughts crawl harshly your mind, contradicting and magically floating through it, where passion has reached its atmost peak, and you deeply know your incomparable peace is approaching, where pieces of you are dancing smoothly within your soul and others are being massively shred, that rare moment where you feel irresistibly complete, that spell of sufferance that led you to dominate the world for seconds, that irremarkable moment of creating art.