Diary of a Palestinian Mother

Based off of another recommendation from my history professor, i have recently been following along with the blogs of a Palestinian refugee. She, like many families during this time in Palestine, have been displaced from their home due to the recurring violence. She recalls the arrival of Israeli troops in her town as well how scared her children were when the bombs were being dropped and the gun were being fired. As any mother can attest, our own fears are only compounded when we see how fearful our children are.

In reading her blog i came to several conclusions. One of them is that people are inherintly the same and maybe our most important quality is that we are all human. Any woman, american, islamic, black or white, would have had the same reactions to her perdictament (fear and discomfort). I can picture my own mom fighting sleep deprevation in an effort to improve our situation and to make our voices heard in order to help us. Coupled with the novel Gate of the Sun that we have read and other Pro-Palestinian i feel that the class overall may be biased in favor of Palestine. I could be wrong, but many of us here in America kinda stand back and dont take a stance in this conflict because of our lack of political and historical awareness in terms of this situation. Yes the United States government is biased towards the needs of those in Israel, but that does not make us sheep and automatically mean that we are predetermined in our alligences. I guess im just frustrated that both perspectives in our class have not gotten equal play.