The worst thing about leaving is knowing I can leave this stuff. I will never understand what it is like to be a Palestinian.

This is worst in the refugee camps, where there is the most poverty and the most frequent confrontations with Israeli soldiers.

There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

To leave a place is to die a little

I have not heard much support for the two-state solution. Most of the Palestinians I have asked wish that they could live in a single, democratic state with equal rights for Jews and non-Jews.

This city is now an open-air prison.