[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.05,0:00:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll start with this poem, I wrote this poem when the bombs were dropping on Gaza. Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.05,0:00:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was the media spokesperson for the coalition doing a lot of the organizing Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.04,0:00:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'd stayed up to about six o'clock in the morning, Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.03,0:00:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perfecting every sound bite and by the end Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.06,0:00:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're a Palestinian you know, most Palestinians get tired Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.04,0:00:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start pronouncing our 'p's as 'b's so we become Balestinians by the end of the day. Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.01,0:00:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was practicing my p's all night. Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.10,0:00:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next morning one of the journalists asked me: Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.06,0:00:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"don't you think it would all be fine if you just stopped teaching your children to hate?" Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.10,0:00:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not insult the person, Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.01,0:00:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was very polite but I wrote this poem Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.04,0:00:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a response to these types of questions we Palestinians always get. Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.02,0:01:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.02,0:01:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.10,0:01:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.10,0:01:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response. Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.01,0:01:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions. Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.06,0:01:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But still, he asked me: "Ms. Ziadah, don’t you think everything would be resolved Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.07,0:01:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children?" Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.02,0:01:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause! Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.06,0:01:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look inside of me for strength to be patient Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.02,0:01:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but patience is not at the tip of my tongue as the bombs drop over Gaza. Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.09,0:01:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patience has just escaped me. Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.01,0:01:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause! Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.02,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Smile! Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.02,0:01:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir! Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.01,0:01:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rafeef, remember to smile... Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.06,0:01:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pause! Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.05,0:01:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir! Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.01,0:01:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky. Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.03,0:02:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.09,0:02:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the last skies. Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.03,0:02:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir! Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.03,0:02:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But today, Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.06,0:02:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.04,0:02:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And "just give us a story, a human story. Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.04,0:02:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, this is not political. Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.01,0:02:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just want to tell people about you and your people, Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.07,0:02:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so give us a human story. Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.06,0:02:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t mention that word “apartheid” and “occupation”. Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.02,0:02:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not political! Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.05,0:02:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to help me as a journalist to help you tell your story Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.08,0:02:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not a political story". Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.08,0:02:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.03,0:02:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How about, you give us a story of a woman in Gaza who needs medication? Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.10,0:02:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about you? Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.03,0:02:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have enough bone-broken limbs to cover the sun? Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.05,0:02:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hand me over your dead Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.08,0:02:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give me the list of their names in one thousand two hundred word limits". Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.07,0:02:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.07,0:02:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my body was a TV’d massacre made to fit into sound-bites and word limits Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.07,0:03:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and move those that are desensitized to terrorist blood. Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.05,0:03:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they felt sorry. Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They felt sorry for the cattle over Gaza. Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.03,0:03:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I give them UN resolutions and statistics Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.05,0:03:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we condemn Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.03,0:03:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we deplore Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.04,0:03:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we reject! Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.02,0:03:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these are not two equal sides: occupier and occupied. Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.06,0:03:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a hundred dead, Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.06,0:03:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two hundred dead, Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.08,0:03:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a thousand dead. Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.03,0:03:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And between, that war crime and massacre, Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.06,0:03:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I vent out words and smile "not exotic", Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.03,0:03:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smile "not terrorist". Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.06,0:03:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I recount, I recount a hundred dead, two hundred dead, a thousand dead! Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.02,0:03:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is anyone out there? Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.08,0:03:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will anyone listen? Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.01,0:03:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could wail over their bodies. Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.02,0:03:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp, Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.06,0:03:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hold every child, Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.02,0:03:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cover their ears Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.05,0:03:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombing Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.09,0:03:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the rest of their life the way I do. Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.01,0:03:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, my body was a TV’d massacre. Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.09,0:03:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let me just tell you, Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.01,0:04:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s nothing your UN resolutions have ever done about this. Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.01,0:04:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no sound-bite, no sound-bite I come up with, Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.03,0:04:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter how good my English gets! Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.07,0:04:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No sound-bite... no sound-bite... no sound-bite... Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.02,0:04:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no sound-bite will bring them back to life! Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.09,0:04:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No sound-bite will fix this! Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.08,0:04:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir! Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We teach life, sir! Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.01,0:04:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We Palestinians wake up every morning to teach the rest of the world life, sir! Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.08,0:04:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you!