Vaccination
The metaphor of vaccination has been used by the narrator. As there was so much hatred and enmity between the Jews and Palestinians so Dr. Izzeldin wanted to eradicate them, and he promulgated love instead of revulsion in order to bring peace. Despite of his endless efforts, he couldn’t succeed in his attempts to build connections among both the nations, so he says, “I am arguing that we need an immunization program, one that injects people with respect, dignity, and equality. One that inoculates them against hatred.” He says that they need a vaccination that would immunize people against abhorrence.
Miserable Experience
The metaphor of miserable experience has been used for the journey of Palestinians because they were not allowed to move freely. Only the students of foreign universities or extremely sick people could move without much difficulty. The businessmen were also permitted to go across the borders. The ordinary Palestinians were treated worst than animals if they could try to pass through the check posts. The id cards were hung in their necks like the strings in the necks of dogs. Some people were beaten brutally by the Israeli soldiers owing to their attempts to move like free citizens.
Utter Devastation
The narrator has used the simile of complete ruin for the war between Israelis and Palestinians. He went through the horrendous effects of this conflict between the two nations. He lost his three daughters during the tumultuous days in Gaza. He has a first hand experience of the ironic nature of war so he says that “That's the thing about war: it's never enough to disable the buildings, to blow holes into their middles; instead, they're hit over and over again, as if to pound them to dust, to disintegrate them, to remove them from the earth, to deny that families ever lived in them.” Dr. Izzeldin realizes that war destroys everything like it never existed before.
