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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.27,0:00:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll start with this poem, I wrote this poem when the bombs were dropping on Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.52,0:00:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was the media spokesperson for the coalition doing a lot of the organizing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.86,0:00:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'd stayed up to about six o'clock in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.70,0:00:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perfecting every sound bite and by the end
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.07,0:00:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're a Palestinian you know, most Palestinians get tired
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.76,0:00:32.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they start to spell 'p's as 'b's so we become Balestinians by the end of the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.15,0:00:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was practicing my p's all night.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.62,0:00:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next morning one of the journalists asked me:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.11,0:00:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't you think it would all be fine if you just stopped teaching your children to hate?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.60,0:00:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not insult the person,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.94,0:00:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was very polite but I wrote this poem
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.86,0:00:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a response to these types of questions we Palestinians always get.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.70,0:00:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.62,0:01:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.94,0:01:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.39,0:01:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.90,0:01:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.52,0:01:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But still, he asked me: "Ms. Ziadah, don’t you think everything would be resolved
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.22,0:01:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.61,0:01:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.22,0:01:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look inside of me for strength to be patient
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.19,0:01:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but patience is not at the tip of my tongue as the bombs drop over Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.30,0:01:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patience has just escaped me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.78,0:01:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.22,0:01:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Smile!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.10,0:01:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.51,0:01:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rafeef, remember to smile...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.98,0:01:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.28,0:01:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.60,0:01:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.62,0:02:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.52,0:02:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the last skies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.62,0:02:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.14,0:02:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But today,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.27,0:02:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.96,0:02:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And "just give us a story, a human story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.90,0:02:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is not political.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.63,0:02:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just want to tell people about you and your people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.02,0:02:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so give us a human story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.91,0:02:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t mention that word “apartheid” and “occupation”.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.52,0:02:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not political!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.90,0:02:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to help me as a journalist to help you tell your story
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.10,0:02:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not a political story."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.18,0:02:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.87,0:02:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about, you give us a story of a woman in Gaza who needs medication?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.35,0:02:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about you?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.70,0:02:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have enough bone-broken limbs to cover the sun?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.99,0:02:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hand me over your dead
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.27,0:02:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give me the list of their names in 1200 word limits.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.28,0:02:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.42,0:02:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.42,0:03:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and move those that are desensitized to terrorist blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.54,0:03:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they felt sorry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.86,0:03:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They felt sorry for the cattle over Gaza.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.78,0:03:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I give them UN resolutions and statistics
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.30,0:03:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we condemn
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.26,0:03:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we deplore
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.11,0:03:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we reject!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.90,0:03:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these are not two equal sides: occupier and occupied.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.23,0:03:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a hundred dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.34,0:03:18.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two hundred dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.19,0:03:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a thousand dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.94,0:03:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And between that war crime and massacre,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.50,0:03:26.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I vent out words and smile "not exotic",
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.39,0:03:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smile "not terrorist".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.10,0:03:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I recount, I recount a hundred dead, two hundred dead, a thousand dead!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.85,0:03:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is anyone out there?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.22,0:03:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will anyone listen?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.03,0:03:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could wail over their bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.86,0:03:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.22,0:03:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hold every child,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.71,0:03:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cover their ears
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.94,0:03:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.12,0:03:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the rest of their life the way I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.52,0:03:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.54,0:03:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let me just tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.11,0:04:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s nothing your UN resolutions have ever done about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.35,0:04:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no sound-bite, no sound-bite I come up with,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.38,0:04:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter how good my English gets!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.14,0:04:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No sound-bite... no sound-bite... no sound-bite...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.30,0:04:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no sound-bite will bring them back to life!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.46,0:04:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No sound-bite will fix this!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.70,0:04:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.91,0:04:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.69,0:04:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world life, sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.78,0:04:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you!