From the Ashes of our Misery: A series on hope in the midst of occupation.

Bethlehem, Occupied West Bank, Summer 2007.

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Domination has a way of leaking out of its immediate context and spilling onto other peoples and places. To adapt an oft used idiom: Domination anywhere, degrades freedom everywhere. And liberation anywhere preserves freedom everywhere. Hence the liberation of the Palestinian people is intertwined with our liberation and we share the scars of their bondage. We also share complicity in the system of domination that has plagued the indigenous people of Palestine since the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. The occupation of Palestine was not created in a vacuum. It arose and has been sustained by massive international support. Today the state of Israel receives over 4 billion dollars each year from the United States. This money is used to buy weapons that are used against Palestinian civilians and resistance fighters alike and to expand the infrastructure of apartheid in the West Bank and Gaza.

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