one of the things that really kind of hurts me is people are looking at Palestinians as just numbers now the number of people that di the number of people that are displaced no we’re just normal people um as athletes we’re here the same as everyone else we want to compete as people we have lives you know we want to be just like everyone else we want to be able to live in our home like everyone else in the world and I think that’s the misconception now is it’s just a number and um it takes the the meaning out of us I mean that’s that’s not Who We Are