March 19th response

The depth and the detail that Suad Amiry gives when talking about the gas masks sent chills down my spine. To put oneself in those shoes, to imagine how life like that must be is unthinkable. These stories just intensify my love for Palestine and its people. Just reading about how the Palestinians were not offered gas masks is unbelievable. To not even have the opportunity to KNOW that a gas attack would take place is unfathomable.
The one quote that stuck with me the most in this chapter was " I don't know what it is with Israeli soldiers. They all have a fetish for making Palestinians stand in an orderly line. They complicate our lives with all sorts of permits, make them unbearable chaotic, then insist we stand in straight lines."  I can relate to this quote on such a personal level. For example when standing at the checkpoint to enter Jerusalem, one of the most exhausting and terrifying experiences of my life was standing in line with the numerous numbers of Palestinians and Israelis lined up. After standing in the line outside in the heat for hours we then find out that the Israeli officer went on a lunch break and we must wait in line for an indefinite amount of time until he returns. We wait for him to press a button to allow each individual person to enter a steel security chamber like thing. Once in that chamber alone you must cross and wait till the rest of my family crossed (which took at least an additional 2 hours) and then to be questioned and to stand in another line to get on the bus which not to mention was 3 checkpoints away from Jerusalem. It's hard to truly articulate these stories until you have actually gone through them. I admire Suad Amiry immensely for telling her stories, not matter how tough some of the details may be, just to bring awareness about some of the struggles that not only she went through but others as well to the public.
After reading the "A Dog's Life" chapter it was awe inspiring but at the same time was meant to evoke some sense of rage and anger out of anyone; male or female, a dog lover or not, Palestinian or Israeli. The fact that the veterinarian was unwilling to give the dog a simple shot because she was a female was enraging. But she took it upon herself to go to a doctor on an Israeli industrial zone, which provided some sense of hope in the reader, to then later learn that a dog received a passport that some Jerusalemites had spent 16 years waiting for a Jerusalem ID. She also has to hide the dog's passport from Samir who after 24 years of marriage to Sawsan, a Jerusalemite, had NOT succeeded in getting a Jerusalem ID. Or even the fact that their daughter couldn't receive even a Palestinian ID because her father has a Palestinian Ramallah ID and her mother had an Israeli Jerusalem ID.