It was written by Palestinian artists as a way to tell personal stories about the conflict in their homeland.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

If you have a set of blocks, mechanical, physical blocks,and I tell you to build something and I say, oh, by the way, you have to cut the blocks in smaller pieces, you are going to get angry, aren't you?

如果你要一个区块，力学的，物理区块，我告诉你要去建造东西,我说，顺便说一下，你必须将一整区块切成小块，你会生气，不会吗？

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By the way, I should tell you that the game ended nil-nil or 0-0.

顺便提一嘴,比赛的结果是0比0

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By the way, I didn't tell you this but I think you know that I picked my origin to be here and measured y positively to be upwards and I called that 15 meters.

顺便说一下,虽然我没明确指出,但我想你们应该都知道,我把原点取在这里,并规定y的正方向朝上,我设把这里的高度为15米

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