Haaretz.com (Israel) : "Israelis and Palestinians have equal right to a home" by Bradley Burston

 Tue, June 21, 2011 Sivan 19, 5771

Israelis and Palestinians have equal right to a home

This is what I say: Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs have every right to a home. And no one is entitled to decide that your sense of home is valid or not.

By Bradley Burston

I'm going to try to put something into words, something that I've felt with precision for a very long time, but something which, I've found, words tend only to obscure, not to illuminate.

Like most attempts at this, it probably won't work. But here goes.

People need a home. People need to know where they come from. People need a place where they feel they belong, a place where, for reasons which may elude all understanding, they feel profoundly and uniquely rooted. A part of things, rather than simply and permanently apart.....(....)....

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