This piece was reprinted by OpEd News with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
Failure will cost Palestinians much more than independence bordering Israel. If achieved, they'll be free at last, no matter what hardships lie ahead.
That reality defeats the unfortunate position of naysayers seeing a half empty, not half full glass with statehood.
Flawed freedom beats subjugation any time. It's step one toward better times no matter what hardships remain.
On August 28, 1963, a quarter million people heard Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech at Washington's Lincoln Memorial 100 years after Black people still weren't free, and aren't now.
He said he came to Washington "to cash a check," guaranteeing "the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' "
He "refuse(d) to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt."
That America's Blacks are excluded from "the riches of freedom and the security of justice."
"Now is the time to make justice a reality," he said.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).