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Palestinian Youth – to start again

Re: “Years of Strife and Lost Hope Scar Young Palestinian Lives” (The New York Times, 12 March 2007): Steven Erlanger reports of the youthful fighters that "All of them want to leave and start again, somewhere."

Intriguing to compare this sentiment with the attitude of a "Galilean pioneer" in Arthur Koestler's novel, "Thieves in the Night": "We don't want to change and we don't want to improve, we want to begin from the beginning."

It seems by now the government of Israel would have learned the ultimate futility of forcible ghettoization. That which inspired revolutionary actions in Zionist history is likely to have the same effect on others today.

Probably there will never be sustainable government (let alone democracy) where walls and ghettos are necessary.

Published on Categories Indigenous Peoples, Politics

About Peter d'Errico

I graduated from Bates College in 1965 and Yale Law School in 1968. I was an attorney with Dinébe’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahii Navajo Legal Services until 1970, when I joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, where I taught about Indigenous Peoples' legal issues. I have litigated issues including hunting, fishing, land rights, and American Indian spiritual freedom in prison. In 2002, I became Emeritus Professor of Legal Studies.

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