Watching this video to me was an extremely eye opening experience, but the person who stood out to me the most was Najeeb. He was neither Jewish or Muslim, but instead a Christian, and the only one shown in the video. What made him so important in my mind was the fact that he represented a whole new aspect of this conflict. Najeeb's story made me realize that this issue reaches beyond that region, and beyond those two religions. When Najeeb's college admissions, his way out of the danger zone, was canceled it became so clear to me that all types of people are affected by the bad blood between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
The contrast between our lives and the lives of these young adults is to the extreme. What I thought was a clear representation of this was when Najeeb went to take his college tests. To us, these tests are something to dread, and to some, an inconvenience; but to Najeeb they were a way out of the dangerous life he endured for so long.
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