qw0ntum (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} qw0ntum) wrote,@ 2007-10-20 15:51:00 |
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Loss of Residency
I just found out that upon entering the West Bank last week Israel revoked my father's Palestinian residency. Poof. He's no longer legally a Palestinian.
He spent the first eighteen years of his life there and now some teenage border guard says that he can never go back as anything more than a tourist. Poof.
I deeply want to believe that Israel wants to live in peace with the Palestinian people, but actions like this shake that belief to the core. One by one they are driving us out of our homeland.
Too bad we're not leaving.
I just found out that upon entering the West Bank last week Israel revoked my father's Palestinian residency. Poof. He's no longer legally a Palestinian.
He spent the first eighteen years of his life there and now some teenage border guard says that he can never go back as anything more than a tourist. Poof.
I deeply want to believe that Israel wants to live in peace with the Palestinian people, but actions like this shake that belief to the core. One by one they are driving us out of our homeland.
Too bad we're not leaving.
