| Show Palestine Student Speaks Well Of His Country by T Tami Jami Silvester r Salamar came to America directly out of high school in June of 1982 He is from Palestine and recently graduated from Weber State College in Engineering is one of the ever increasing number of foreigners who are leaving le ying their countries to attend American Universities They are often are often misunderstood and their motives for being here are mistrusted by people who do not understand their culture or beliefs When asked why he chose the United States to continue his education he said Down here I study Engineering If I want to study Engineering in Palestine my country I would have to finish in the top 25 percent in the whole country on my final high school exam which is s similar milar to your SA SAT T. T It is interesting to note that inside Palestine there are only two Universities They have an average of to high school students graduate every year yet their Universities can only accommodate the top 25 percent This leaves 75 percent of their high school graduates without a place to continue their education So they are encouraged to go out of the country We are strongly encouraged said to attend an English speaking University and in inmany inmany inmany many cases our rate of pay will double if we graduate from an American University Speaking further he was asked what he thought the United States could learn from Palestine's Educational System replied We have power in our educational system because we establish ourselves from the start We have seven subjects from elementary school through high school They are Arabic Islamic Religion Math Physics Chemistry Biology and English We place all allour allour our emphasis on these subjects and are better prepared afterwards for our car career er training What does think is the American peoples people's biggest misconception Terrorism he strong stated When I come and say I am Palestinian you say Oh youre you're a terrorist because we have a PLO and you think PLO means terrorist If you would look at Israels Israel's history over the past years you would not view us as terrorists but as victims fighting back When I open a newspaper what do I see in the headlines I see PLO ATTACKS VILLAGE But when the Israelis Israeli's bomb one of our refugee camps the headlines read ISRAEL RETALIATES BY BOMBING GORILLA CAMP They dont don't tell you that there are just as many women children and old people in our GORILLA camp as there are in their village illustrated his use of the word victims in the following statement This is your house you have your own bedroom and your children have them own own bedroom I come and I am a powerful and I Isay say I I dont don't like this arrange arrange- want it and cant can't do anything about it You ment This is your house but I you have two bathrooms Ill I'll take two You can have the kitchen but the living room the Sheriff I bring the Marshall the Fire is mine now What do you do I bring Department everything So do you try to fight me You could not So what you will do is you will move to those three rooms I gave you So further down the road I become more powerful and I decide I need the thee whole house and the backyard Now the whole house is mine You you have hav nothing on it But I decide that you and your husband can stay downstairs but your kids cannot stay I will put up a tent from them in the street And you can do nothing about it So what are you going to do This is your kids your family You bet youre you're going to fight back This is exactly what happened in Israel The Jewish immigrants came after ater I the Holocaust and started taking our property our families r. r sometimes sending them to Refugee Camps miles away So of course we i will fight back i Here Herein in Utah has for the most part been treated fairly During the i. i past month he married a US U.S. Citizen and plans to make his home here in the t United States He may apply for his citizenship But as a parting comment he i stated Palestine is my country and will always be my home i i |
