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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/opinion/not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal.html?_r=1
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal
By YOUSEF MUNAYYER
Published: May 23, 2012
I’M a Palestinian who
was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen.
My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles
apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away in Massachusetts, where we
attended neighboring colleges.
A
series of walls, checkpoints, settlements and soldiers fill the 30-mile
gap between our hometowns, making it more likely for us to have met on
the other side of the planet than in our own backyard....READ MORE
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