If I didn't have any friends from Palestine and Israel, I wouldn't have felt so much for the people who live in that region. Specially what has happened for the last three weeks there.
If my Palestinian friends hadn't told me the situations in Gaza and the West Bank, I wouldn't have any idea that Palestine dose not have their own currency. People who live in the West Bank have to use different kinds of foreign currency the region. I wouldn't have known that Gaza is like a concentration camp, etc. Even though my friends have filled me with information about the region, I still can't image the life in Gaza and the West Bank.
When I asked my friend who is from Israel the population of the state, I was very surprised to hear it only has about 7-8 million people. On the other hand, my friend was shocked to hear I said that it was just like two median size cities or one large city in China. Just Shanghai alone has more population than the whole state of Israel.
20 years, 50 years, 100 years and many years later, I hope I can still see Palestine stand in the region.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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