Who Would You Interview?

Being an Arab American Palestinian, I was very into my culture.  My parents are both Arab American Christians.  Growing up, I went to church every Sunday with my family.  My cousins and I were extremely close. As I got older, I started to hear more about the war against the Palestinians, and the Jewish people.  I didn't really understand what was going on. All I knew was that they weren't getting along, and they were fighting over land. As I got older, I would read about the war in the newspaper, and both my parents explained to me what was really going on. They got upset when they read news articles that were false and that took only one side.  Living in the United States we dont really know what is going on in other countries. We believe what we hear. We hear one side of the story and not the other. When I say I am Palestinian, people are like where is that? I say "It's Israel now, but it had always been Palestine."  After 9/11 people made judgements about all Arab Americans being terrorists, wether they were Muslim or Christian. The truth is, a lot of people in the United States do not really know what is going on in other countries, unless they have been their or know people from their.  Someone who I would have loved to interview, but whom is now deceased, was Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat died when I was young, but he is still talked about to this day.  He was the Palestinian leader from 1994 to 2004.  He lived through the war in the Middle East. He has been there, and seen everything. He made peace deals with Israel and communicated with other countries. It would be amazing to hear what he would have to say about the the Middle Eastern War.  I want to hear what he has to say, what he lived through.  Even though, some people didn't like him, I would put all my assumptions aside. I would ask him how he had handled the war and what he wants to accomplish and how to settle everything.  There are always two sides to a story. Some are right and some are wrong.  We will never really know what is really going on in the Middle East.