Though I have not been to Palestine yet, I feel very passionate about the issue. Not simply because I'm Muslim, or because I'm Arab, but because it's a human issue, and I think it's central to a lot of the problems that we face … I do believe it's very important for the American population to understand and address, because we're so implicit in the actions of our government, Israeli government, whether we realise it or not, it's our tax dollars that are funding a lot of what's going on, and it's our support, our moral support, our spoken support … Even though there are verbal condemnations perhaps, but the real … I mean if your friend does something bad and you give them a condemnation and you keep slipping them $20, it's not going to really send the right message though. I just think that we have to, as a nation, wake up to all the issues around us and that's just one of the main ones.