New Year Wishes

 

        
   
 Mariana (student, 8yrs): Peace, and not war, and that our car get fixed.


 

  1. Maha (civil engineer): May God provide prosperity and good luck for the young ones because they are the ones who need it most.

 

  1. Abdallah (shoe store owner): I wish for Peace with Israel, a long-term peace. No war in this year!

 

 

  1. Bassem (electrician): I wish for peace and stability to all. Our life is difficult and unbearable. I wish that our children live a better life.

 

  1. Ali (carpenter): I wish for stability and peace so that we can work again. Hopefully we will have happy times where we can meet with friends. I wish for an opportunity for life. It’s so difficult to be happy at his point.

 

  1. Jamileh (housewife): I wish that the situation is not like it is today. It’s a shame.

 

  1. Tony (salesman): I hope that the people will live in peace, that the political and economical situation improves, and that occupation ends.

 

 

  1. Mariana (student): Peace, and not war, and that our car get fixed, good health and freedom for us kids to play as we want to.

 

  1. Saliba (hotel owner): May Peace prevail in the Middle East, especially in Palestine because Palestine is the center of all the religions. I wish for freedom, fraternity and equality and that people may live openly.

 

  1. Nour (bank employee): I hope things will get better, better in a way that the future will become clearer for us. We can’t see the future right now. At the moment everything is dark and vague.

 

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  2. Khaled (night guard): I wish for a good year. May there be peace all over the world. End to occupation. Everybody should be freed.
  3. Ibrahim (bass player/student): I wish to go to my university with no checkpoints, curfews, problems. I wish to play music and to study in peace. May peace come to the whole world.

 

  1. Jeeda (guitar player/student): I wish for more stability, so that I could know what to do with my life.

 

 

  1. Charlie (percussionist/student): Peace on earth. No problems between the countries. No bullets and bombs no checkpoints and no soldiers.

 

  1. Mohammed (clarinet player/student): I wish for everybody love and peace, a happy life with no problems and violence. And an end to curfews and occupation.

 

 

  1. Tony (Oud-player/student): Peace for our beloved Palestine and peace between peoples.

 

  1. George (music teacher): I wish for two things. Peace like everybody wishes and a personal thing: to find a wife. May everybody fulfill his/her dreams. May people be good to each other.

 

  1. Shireen (Students): Because of the current situation there is no hope. We are all pessimistic. Our future is unknown. We live things as they come. We live the moments. We let things be. We wait. We will be depressed if we think of the future. We don’t plan. We don’t have a goal. I planned to study journalism but I couldn’t go anywhere but to Bethlehem.

 

  1. Rawan (student): Peace, real peace, practical implementation, not just words. I wish for all the children of Palestine to celebrate Christmas and New Year like the rest of the kids around the world. I wish that the opportunity to education is not taken away from us. Education is the best gift we could ever get. And after all it is a right! Why do students in Jordan, in the USA and even in Israel have this right, but we are deprived from it?

 

 

  1. Rula (student): First and foremost I wish for a peace agreement between the two sides because the situation is difficult for both sides. We suffer a very tight closure and deprivation. We would like to practice our rights. We live in a cage in our homes. We can not breathe. We can not carry on with our daily lives. There is a psychological pressure. I hope that Easter will be better so that we may feel the holidays and celebrations. I hope that tourists will come to the Nativity church and share with us the celebrations like in the year 2000. This gave us a lot of ambition and hope. But now all ambitions vanished. People here are killed, not only physically, but also psychologically. I wish for a permanent solution, for stability and peace!

 

  1. Mrs. Naila (headmaster): I wish that we could lead a normal life. That’s it! A normal life, without curfews, a life with security and peace. And that our children have a normal life like all the children in the world!

 

  1. Ibrahim (fashion designer): I hope that this year is a year of wisdom for the Palestinian people, a wisdom that enables us to confront and to reveal the hypocrisy of the Israeli policy.

 

 

  1. Emad (student): I hope that the closures and the occupation end. And that our class will be given the chance to travel to Germany.

 

  1. Lorees (student): My wish is that all the people enjoy and love this New Year. May there be parties and celebrations!

Interviews Conducted by Johannes Zang

 

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