Nonviolence offers a place for the other to see me differently

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An Israeli who grows up

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assuming that every Palestinian
is out to kill them,

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being told from a young age

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that you are insecure because
these people are out to do to you

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maybe something similar to
what the Nazis did to you.

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And I've heard this narrative being told
by Israeli teachers to Israeli children.

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The moment somebody
is afraid of violence

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and I engage with them nonviolently

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that also breaks their perception,

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breaks their narrative
of who I am to them.

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I need to break
that narrative by my action

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and nonviolence becomes key

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for the healing process not just
for my resistance, for my right,

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but for healing their expectation

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and their perception of
who I am as a Palestinian.