Of being able to live and die near the soil that had embraced us since we were born and witnessed our childhoods . We would be forced to leave the town that had offered us its schools , whose fruit we had eaten , in whose neighborhoods we had played , whose residents we 'd befriended , in whose buildings we had worked .
لم يعد لدينا أيّ أمل ؛ لا أمل في الدفاع عن النفس ولا أمل في الموت على تراب الأرض التي احتضنتنا مذ عرفنا الحياة ، الأرض التي عشنا فيها طفولتنا وتعلمنا في مدارسها وأكلنا من خيراتها ولعبنا في حاراتها وصادقنا سكانها وعملنا في أبنيتها .