Palestinians are people too, deserving of peace and justice along with their Israeli neighbors.
Visiting Palestine
Deborah Agre writing from occupied Jerusalem, Live from Palestine, 15 November 2007
The remains of Yacoub Odeh's family home in the destroyed village of Lifta. (Judith Mahoney Pasternak) Almost every day, I think, talk, and read about Palestine. But it had been more than three years since my last trip and there are some things you can really only get by going there -- seeing the landscape and its destruction, the daily insults and injuries of occupation, and most of all, getting to know a few people, hearing their stories, and being invited into their lives.
Yacoub Odeh was the guide for Middle East Children's Alliance's twelve-day tour through Palestine/Israel. He became a friend who told me and showed me things I know I will never forget. At age 67, Yacoub seems to carry with him the whole history of modern Palestine. And that is above all a history -- and ongoing experience -- of terrible loss.
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Visiting Palestine
Deborah Agre writing from occupied Jerusalem, Live from Palestine, 15 November 2007
Yacoub Odeh was the guide for Middle East Children's Alliance's twelve-day tour through Palestine/Israel. He became a friend who told me and showed me things I know I will never forget. At age 67, Yacoub seems to carry with him the whole history of modern Palestine. And that is above all a history -- and ongoing experience -- of terrible loss.
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