No One Can Tell Who Loves It More

Each and everyone of us loves his country in his own way, some express their love by staying in it, working and building it up, others leave it and represent it in a good way outside .both communities in Batir and Tormos A’yya love Palestine each in their own way. people in Batir decided to stay in their small village with limited services they decided to face the occupation and fight it as much as they can they knew that their village is one of the villages that the Israeli’s can’t wait till they put their hands on ,and that they are planning to build a settlement there, they know that by planting a tree they are preventing their village from being taken away, and that’s what they are doing. While most of the people in Tormos A’yya decided to leave to the untied states work there and invest all what they get to build up their village in Palestine and though they left their land but they still love it and try to find the best way to build it up.
In both Batir and Tormos A’yya there were lands took by Israeli’s in order to build settlements and there are such areas that they can’t build in because they are near settlements they have to be certain kilometres away from the settlements in order to make sure of the settlements protection .
The two villages are different in mostly everything and we noticed that since the moment we entered the villages, the architecture of the houses ,their resources, life style, mostly everything but both villages love their country and their villages both communities are trying to build up their villages in the best way ,and both villages are protecting their villages and preventing their land from being taken by the Israelis by cultivating olive trees on the hills ,that these hills wont be taken by the Israelis either to build settlements on or to use them as streets or protection for the settlements that are already there. Palestinians all over the world are considered stateless people ,though Palestine itself is divided into three areas according to Oslo Accords A,B, and C, each and every village is divided into these three areas or at least two of them, some suffered more than the other some more land were taken from them but no one can tell who suffered the most, its not about how many people were killed or imprisoned or how much land were taken . If one inch or thousands of inches were taken it is the same to us. People in Tormos A’yya are ready to help anyone build a house and settle down in their village, while people in Batir just can’t do the same because they are not allowed to build anything in their village
Palestinians are Palestinians wherever they are they hold Palestinian traditions and culture with them, they may not be holding any papers and documents that they are Palestinians , but still Palestine is their home town and they hold it in their hearts though they are considered stateless people and belonging to a stateless country.