ABSTRACT
I say I am Palestinian because this is what I am. This is the only thing that I feel. I've been thinking a lot lately about being a minority in this country. This land is mine but the country definitely is not. And there are more issues that concern me as a minority in this Jewish state. There are more than I ever thought. It's very important that I work for big things, my rights as a national minority because there is where I live. You can put it this way—the state's democratic when Jews are concerned, but certainly anti-democratic for any of the Palestinians here. Only Jews—that's who [is] going to live here. Only Jews are going to buy apartments here. And whoever lost their land—from the Jewish [people]—they can't live here, not the Arabs, and so not me. It [Israel] doesn't justify itself with these rules!
