Word: mr
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...Dear Mr. Peres: As you make your way through the crowds into the John F. Kennedy Jr. forum at the Institute of Politics today, and as you stand on the podium and look at the hundreds who have come to see you, I want you to know that amongst those eager to hear you is a young Palestinian who has parents and brothers in Ramallah, cousins in Nablus and aunts and uncles in Jenin and Gaza. This young man is me, and I believe that you, Mr. Peres, and I have so many things in common...
...Mr. Peres, just like you, I wasn’t born in Palestine. Both of my parents were Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Your parents taught you to be proud of being Jewish at a young age. My parents taught me to be proud of being Palestinian before they taught me how to read and write. Your parents and family told you stories about the Promised Land. My parents used take me to the east bank of the Dead Sea, where my dad would carry me on his shoulders and point to the other side of the border and tell...
...though, a more important question than one of sincerity is why are my brothers, family and the majority of Palestinians paying for crimes they have not committed? Their only guilt seems to be their calls to end the occupation of their land. Unlike groups that adopt violence against Israel, Mr. Peres, the heaven most Palestinians seek is right here in this world, between the orchards and the olive trees...
...Mr. Jordan and I cannot be talking about the same object,” he said...
...complexities of the modern era. Without help from their past or their culture, Naipaul's heroes struggled against the world for dignity and self-knowledge. They rarely succeeded, yet their struggle could sometimes ennoble them. Naipaul's fiction career had two peaks?first, in 1961, with A House for Mr. Biswas, the epic of an Indian in Trinidad who wants to build a home of his own, then in 1979, with A Bend in the River, the story of Salim, an Indian in Africa who tries to start a new life despite the anarchy spreading through the continent. Naipaul...