Jane and CC as Sanabel

An Interview with Sanabel

What rights should the Palestinians refugees have?

We should have rights just like the Jews, and we should be able to leave the refugee camps. We should live on our own land just like we used to. It's not fair when we were here first!


What should be the status of Jerusalem?

Jews should clear out of our land. They say that god promised them this land, but they are wrong. We were here first, and we should keep this land. Jerusalem was ours before the 1967 war, and it should still be ours.


What should be the status of the West Bank and Gaza, currently occupied by Israel?

The West Bank and Gaza should belong to us, the Palestinians. They kicked us out of our land and forced us to live here, so isn't it only fair that we should be able to have some land? It's not our beginning land but it is still ours and should stay that way. Israelis shouldn't be able to live in our land like they do in settlements if we are not able to live in "theirs."


Should the United States give aid to either the Israelis or Palestinians -- or to both of them? If so, what kind of aid?

They should give aid to the Palestinians because they have given SO much aid to the Israelis it's only fair that we get some help too! I think that they should give us aid to get us out of the refugee camps and help us get our land back.


What additional ideas or proposals can you make to bring about a peace and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis?

I think that the Israelis should stop hurting us. They should let us have our own land, and we should have Jerusalem since we were there first. They should also stop imprisoning innocent people like my father. When negotiating with the Israelis I noticed they almost all mentioned the Torah. If they were really going by the Torah, then they would have land all the way from Egypt to Iraq, which they don't, so if they want to use the Torah as a reason for us to go away, then they should try to take all the land. But, they don't because what the Torah says is not true.