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  • Meet Bashar.

  • Hi, My name is Bashar and I got arrested eight times.

  • Bashar grew up in Nablus, Palestine, and as a kid he would regularly protest the Israeli occupation by throwing rocks at them.

  • But my rocks didn't go far.

  • They did, however, get him arrested by Israel eight times.

  • Then he realized he needed a more effective way to be heard.

  • So he went to the U.

  • S.

  • Pursuit an engineering degree open 30 businesses, got into real estate and got rich rich enough sewage.

  • He decided to make the biggest gamble of his life.

  • He lost a $1,000,000,000 campaign to build a new city from scratch in the middle of Palestine.

  • The house, 40,000 people and create 10,000 new jobs for Palestinians.

  • And his project has worldwide support even from many Israel.

  • This is the crazy story of Bashar who, instead of throwing rocks, decided to build an entire city out of them.

  • And that was the most effective rock he ever through.

  • That's one minute.

  • See you tomorrow.

Meet Bashar.

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