Basel, do you know what happens when you blow yourself up?  You don`t go to heaven.  You go into a hole in the ground, and you get covered up with dirt."

Rafiq Hamdouna, a former Fatah leader, to his son who said he wanted to be a martyr bomber.  Quoted in The New Yorker, September 11, 2006

 

Diary

I've never kept a diary, but if my daughters can fill book upon book with grave and beautiful thoughts about their lives, and their friends' lives, and their friends' mothers and fathers and, maybe, even their own mother and father, then I'm willing to have a go too.

2006
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