….”You can hardly imagine the physiological and mental consequences the children suffer during and after the detention. What does it do to Palestinian families, friends and communities. The effect of these misguided Israel policies ripple down through four generations and are the guarantee that there can never be a better future. These kids will carry In their hearts and soul fear, sorrow and more than that, they grow into angry young men and women fueled with the desire to restore their dignity by any means necessary. As the saying goes, if you sin against children, you destroy hope and create a kingdom of despair.
NSL gives is all a chance to share our passion for what we want to see change in the world, But it also expects us to act on it, to become the change that we want to see in the world, as Gandhi said.For me, the rights of children are so fundamental, that any other discussion about occupation, or checkpoints, or freedom of movement are all part of the one cloth. If you treat children like this, where will it end?
For a people who have suffered so much, who have seen successive Jewish generatlons wiped out, I want to ask the question:
How can you sleep when a child is crying
how can you sleep when a child is dying
how can you sleep if a child who is born to be free is strip searched, humiliated, and intimidated?
How can we doom our children to be the victims of a military that acts out of fear, and yet tells us it is the most ethical in the world? ,
I don’t want anyone else to live through what my Dad had to endure, the loss of a son, and for no reason. I want you to join us in this campaign to save the children, to free the children, to rescue the children,from treatment that steals their innocence.
if the plight of these children does not move us, Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, all men and women of conscience, then I have to ask where is our humanity gone to? We must speak truth to power, we must speak for those who have no voice, and if we fail them, we fail the final test of our lives, which is to ensure that those who come after us bless us for the future we helped create, not curse us. ”