To be a Palestinian means to be one of the millions of refugees worldwide who were expelled from their homeland. To be a Palestinian means to often be looked upon with suspicion. It means waking up in the morning to find the occupying forces building a wall to separate your home from your farm in the West Bank. It means waiting hours at checkpoints manned by teenaged Israeli soldiers as you attempt to reach your college in Nablus. It means fearing your wife will give birth in a taxi at a checkpoint on the road to a hospital in Ramallah. It means not getting a permit to build a house, while new immigrants from Russia are building homes on land confiscated or stolen. It means having your home demolished along with an entire neighborhood, under the guise of securing illegally built settlements. It means not having enough water to drink. It means being detained along with thousands of other Palestinians for years and years without being charged. For me, it means being imprisoned for 65 years in the United States for feeding Palestinian widows and orphans." - Ghassan Elashi, Palestinian freedom fighter detained in a Communications Management Unit in Marion (one of the highly secretive, almost exclusively Arab/Muslim prisons in the US)
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:23:06 +0000
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