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<DIV>Very well said.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>carolekeene@juno.com<BR>http://carolekeene.byregion.net<BR>"Study
nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."-- Frank
Lloyd Wright<BR>"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and
stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters" - Saint
Bernard<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Date:</B> Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:08:38 -0400</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [PNCPoliticalActivists] Starhawk on Gaza</DIV>
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<DIV>This is quite touching.......</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><A
href="http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2008/12/thoughts-and-action-on-gaza-from-starhawk/">http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2008/12/thoughts-and-action-on-gaza-from-starhawk/</A>
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day I’ve been thinking about Gaza, listening to reports on NPR, following the
news on the internet when I can spare a moment. I’ve been thinking about
the friends I made there four years ago, and wondering how they are faring, and
imagining their terror as the bombs fall on that giant, open-air prison.</DIV>
<DIV
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Israeli ambassador speaks movingly of the terror felt by Israeli children as
Hamas rockets explode in the night. I agree with him—that no child should
have her sleep menaced by rocket fire, or wake in the night fearing death.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">But
I can’t help but remember one night on the Rafah border, sleeping in a house
close to the line, watching the children dive for cover as bullets thudded into
the walls. There was a shell-hole in the back room they liked to jump through
into the garden, which at that time still held fruit trees and chickens.
Their mother fed me eggs, and their grandmother stuffed oranges into my pockets
with the shy pride every gardener shares.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">That
house is gone, now, along with all of its neighbors. Those children wake
in the night, every night of their lives, in terror. I don’t know if they
have survived the hunger, the lack of medical supplies, the bombs. I only
know that they are children, too.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">I’ve
ridden on buses in Israel. I understand that gnawing fear, the squirrely
feeling in the pit or your stomach, how you eye your fellow passengers wondering
if any of them are too thick around the middle. Could that portly fellow be
wearing a suicide belt, or just too many late night snacks of hummus?
That’s no way to live.</DIV>
<DIV
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I’ve also walked the pock-marked streets of Rafah, where every house bears the
scars of Israeli snipers, where tanks prowled the border every night, where
children played in the rubble, sometimes under fire, and this was all four years
ago, when things were much, much better there.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">And
I just don’t get it. I mean, I get why suicide bombs and homemade rockets
that kill innocent civilians are wrong. I just don’t get why bombs from F16s
that kill far more innocent civilians are right. Why a kid from the ghetto
who shoots a cop is a criminal, but a pilot who bombs a police station from the
air is a hero.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Is
it a distance thing? Does the air or the altitude confer a purifying
effect? Or is it a matter of scale? Individual murder is vile, but
mass murder, carried out by a state as an aspect of national policy, that’s a
fine and noble thing?</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">I
don’t get how my own people can be doing this. Or rather, I do get
it. I am a Jew, by birth and upbringing, born six years after the
Holocaust ended, raised on the myth and hope of Israel. The myth goes like
this:</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">“For
two thousand years we wandered in exile, homeless and persecuted, nearly
destroyed utterly by the Nazis. But out of that suffering was born one
good thing—the homeland that we have come back to, our own land at last, where
we can be safe, and proud, and strong.”</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">That’s
a powerful story, a moving story. There’s only one problem with it—it
leaves the Palestinians out. It has to leave them out, for if we were to
admit that the homeland belonged to another people, well, that spoils the
story.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">The
result is a kind of psychic blind spot where the Palestinians are
concerned. If you are truly invested in Israel as the Jewish homeland, the
Jewish state, then you can’t let the Palestinians be real to you. It’s
like you can’t really focus on them. Golda Meir said, “The Palestinians,
who are they? They don’t exist.” We hear, “There is no partner for
peace,” “There is no one to talk to.”</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">And
so Israel, a modern state with high standards of hygiene, a state rooted in a
religion that requires washing your hands before you eat and regular, ritual
baths, builds settlements that don’t bother to construct sewage treatment
plants. They just dump raw sewage onto the Palestinian fields across the fence,
somewhat like a spaceship ejecting its wastes into the void. I am truly
not making this up—I’ve seen it, smelled it, and it’s a known though shameful
fact. But if the Palestinians aren’t really real—who are they? They
don’t exist!—then the land they inhabit becomes a kind of void in the psyche,
and it isn’t really real, either. At times, in those border villages,
walking the fencelines of settlements, you feel like you have slipped into a
science fiction movie, where parallel universes exist in the same space, but in
different strands of reality, that never touch.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">When
I was on the West Bank, during Israeli incursions the Israeli military would
often take over a Palestinian house to billet their soldiers. Many times,
they would simply lock the family who owned it into one room, and keep them
there, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days—parents, grandparents, kids and
all. I’ve sat with a family, singing to the children while soldiers
trashed their house, and I’ve been detained by a group of soldiers playing cards
in the kitchen with a family locked in the other room. (I got out of that
one—but that’s another story.)</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">It’s
a kind of uneasy feeling, having something locked away in a room in your house
that you can’t look at. Ever caught a mouse in a glue trap? And you
can’t bear to watch it suffer, so you leave the room and close the door and
don’t come back until it’s really, really dead.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Like
a horrific fractal, the locked room repeats on different scales. The
Israelis have built a wall to lock away the West Bank. And Gaza itself is
one huge, locked room. Close the borders, keep food and medical supplies
and necessities from getting through, and perhaps they will just quietly fade
out of existence and stop spoiling our story.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">“All
we want is a return to calm,” the Israeli ambassador says. “All we want is
peace.”</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">One
way to get peace is to exterminate what threatens you. In fact, that may
be the prime directive of the last few thousand years.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">But
attempts to exterminate pests breed resistance, whether you’re dealing with
insects or bacteria or people. The more insecticides you pour on a field,
the more pests you have to deal with—because insecticides are always more potent
at killing the beneficial bugs than the pesky ones.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">The
harshness, the crackdowns, the border closings, the checkpoints, the
assassinations, the incursions, the building of settlements deep into
Palestinian territory, all the daily frustrations and humiliations of
occupation, have been breeding the conditions for Hamas, or something like it,
to thrive. If Israel truly wants peace, there’s a more subtle, a more
intelligent and more effective strategy to pursue than simply trying to kill the
enemy and anyone else who happens to be in the vicinity.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">It’s
this—instead of killing what threatens you, feed what you want to grow.
Consider in what conditions peace can thrive, and create them, just as you would
prepare the bed for the crops you want to plant. Find those among your opponents
who also want peace, and support them. Make alliances. Offer your
enemies incentives to change, and reward your friends.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Of
course, to follow such a strategy, you must actually see and know your
enemy. If they are nothing to you but cartoon characters of terrorists,
you will not be able to tell one from another, to discern the religious fanatic
from the guy muttering under his breath, “F-ing Hammas, they closed the cinema
again!”</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">And
you must be willing to give something up. No one gets peace if your basic
bargaining position is, “I get everything I want, and you eat my shit.”
You might get a temporary victory, but it will never be a peaceful one.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">To
know and see the enemy, you must let them into the story. They must become
real to you, nuanced, distinctive as individuals.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">But
when we let the Palestinians into the story, it changes. Oh, how painfully
it changes! For there is no way to tell a new story, one that includes
both peoples of the land, without starting like this:</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">“In
our yearning for a homeland, in our attempts as a threatened and traumatized
people to find safety and power, we have done a great wrong to another people,
and now we must atone.”</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Just
try saying it. If you, like me, were raised on that other story, just try this
one out. Say it three times. It hurts, yes, but it might also bring
a great, liberating sense of relief with it.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">And
if you’re not Jewish, if you’re American, if you’re white, if you’re German, if
you’re a thousand other things, really, if you’re a human being, there’s
probably some version of that story that is true for you.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Out
of our own great need and fear and pain, we have often done great harm, and we
are called to atone. To atone is to be at one—to stop drawing a circle
that includes our tribe and excludes the other, and start drawing a larger
circle that takes everyone in.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">How
do we atone? Open your eyes. Look into the face of the enemy, and see a
human being, flawed, distinct, unique and precious. Stop killing.
Start talking. Compost the shit and the rot and feed the olive trees.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Act.
Cross the line. There are Israelis who do it all the time, joining with
Palestinians on the West Bank to protest the wall, watching at checkpoints,
refusing to serve in the occupying army, standing for peace. Thousands
have demonstrated this week in Tel Aviv.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">There
are Palestinians who advocate nonviolent resistance, who have organized their
villages to protest the wall, who face tear gas, beatings, arrests, rubber
bullets and real bullets to make their stand.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">There
are internationals who have put themselves on the line—like the boatload of
human rights activists, journalists and doctors on board the Dignity, the ship
from the Free Gaza movement that was rammed and fired on by the Israeli navy
yesterday as it attempted to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.</DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 22px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">Maybe
we can’t all do that. But we can all write a letter, make a phone call, send an
email. We can make the Palestinian people visible to us, and to the world.
When we do so, we make a world that is safer for every
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