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By M. Kay Siblani
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When you read "The Scar of David", you know why God put author Susan Abulhawa on this planet. Forget about United Nations resolutions, World Court directives, Camp David and AIPAC.
Come, instead, and breathe the sweet, fresh dawn air with the proud and honorable Yehia, the patriarch of this clan, in his lush olive groves on the first day of harvest in 1941, before the catastrophe of 1948 forces the family from its land. Come, instead, and crouch with his granddaughter Amal in a dirt hole in the disappearing kitchen of her humble home in the Jenin refugee camp with her best friend Huda and baby cousin Aisha. Let your heart beat in fear with theirs as the 1967 war crashes down around them, shattering their childhoods while claiming baby Aisha’s life and taking Amal’s mother’s soul from her still live body.
Do this, and I promise you: The Palestinian issue will be forever in your heart.
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