“The occupation made it very clear to me that there was something wrong, and I started to ask myself all kinds of questions and came to the conclusion that Zionism is negative and bad, and that we are oppressing the Palestinians.”

—  Leah Tsemel

"The Israeli who defends suicide bombers," 2003

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