I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.
I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.