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🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Rough Translation from NPR. |
0:03.0 | I'm Gregory Warner. |
0:04.5 | Jihad Abu Aliya is a horticultural therapist in Jerusalem. |
0:08.4 | She is Palestinian and I asked her about her first name. |
0:11.4 | It's Jihad, like Islamic Jihad. |
0:14.8 | She was born in 1967 after the Six Day War when Arab military suffered a massive defeat |
0:20.6 | by Israel. |
0:21.7 | And everyone who was born that year they named him like Jihad or Nadal. |
0:27.1 | Two Arabic words both meaning struggle. |
0:29.2 | A boy or a girl. |
0:31.6 | And the first grade there was like 15 girls named Jihad. |
0:35.4 | I called up Jihad not to talk about a war, but about a wager. |
0:39.3 | One she made with her daughter about the outcome of the U.S. election. |
0:42.9 | A race with enormous impact on her region. |
0:46.2 | But one she finds frustrating to watch. |
0:48.8 | Because I can't vote, I can't you know, I can't even express my feelings, not my feelings, |
0:55.0 | express my opinion. |
0:56.7 | I don't have the right even. |
0:59.0 | But she couldn't vote, at least she could bet. |
1:01.7 | She says the first and only bet she's ever made in her life. |
1:05.3 | One hundred bucks that the former casino owner, President Trump, would win. |
1:14.2 | Most Palestinians support Biden. |
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