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When I decided to study Hebrew I didn't know the crazy roller coaster ride I was about to embark on. When I started studying Hebrew I knew nothing about the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. I started off by trying to decipher what I thought was an impossible language to learn and by the time I finished university I had become one of the few experts of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that isn't a Jew or an Arab. Nope, just a Mexican-American girl from a small town with no Jews and no Arabs. How did this happen? Well, I ask myself the same thing. People often ask why I studied the Middle East. Why I chose to focus on Israel and Palestine? Frankly, I don't know. But what I do know well is the adversity I have faced in the field. Not many people that aren't directly involved in the conflicts choose to study them. I've only met a handful of individuals who do. Let's face it, its hard to study something that you're not connected to. And often p