Ready for the Third Round

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00:00Why did I choose to be here?

00:06As I record this, there's a drone sound that is every day, all day, above me.

00:12Why do you choose to stay with that drone sound above your head and make videos from

00:18the capital of Lebanon?

00:20Well, first of all, because this has always been the case.

00:25My parents and my grandparents and everyone in Lebanon, from every religion, from every

00:30sect, from every political view, we've all practiced displacement.

00:35We've all experienced losing a loved one.

00:38We've all seen Israeli bombs kill our people.

00:42In the 40s, it happened.

00:43In the 50s, it happened.

00:44In the 60s, it happened.

00:45In the 70s, it happened.

00:46In the 80s.

00:47And you know, when I do something very normal, like washing a dish, I think of all the people

00:53who are just like me, who cannot do that in their home now, of all the people who couldn't

01:00eat today, who are too proud to say that we have been forced out of our homes, we didn't

01:06have time to pack enough, and we lost our jobs abruptly.

01:09We are displaced in war.

01:12Why did I choose to be here?

01:15Because this is going to be the last round.

01:17I feel weak looking at the phone, because this phone can turn into a bomb.

01:21I feel weak sitting around my computers or my Wi-Fi routers.

01:25They managed, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel managed to make everything a killing machine.

01:34We're staying here because we're going to report your defeat one more time.

01:40We've seen you defeated twice, and we're waiting for the third.

01:45Long live Lebanon, long live Palestine, long live Syria, long live Iraq, long live Yemen,

01:53long live every nation that says no to the oppressive.

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