The other thing is that when it all happened, being a slightly insecure person, I thought: oh, he won't want me any more.
Descriptions of the 1948 war tended to suggest that Palestinians either left their homes voluntarily, selling them to Jews, or were encouraged to leave by other Arabs rather than, as sometimes happened, being forced out violently.
When 9/11 happened, being a Muslim from India, I tried to understand the real intentions or thought processes that led Osama bin Laden and his cronies to commit this abominable act.
"With the full force of what has happened being so fresh, the task seems difficult if not impossible," said Mary Ann Tighe, a vice chairwoman of the real estate firm Insignia/ESG.
It was hard for us to tell exactly what happened, being so far away, but everything looked all right, & then suddenly the ring was full of men yelling & slugging & a little extra may have spilled out into the press section & aisles.
"She's a lovely old lady, and to have her really upset on the phone, not knowing what's just happened, being ambushed by a local paper from Newcastle - I can't believe it's come to that.
