Israel will keep Palestinians imprisoned on the Gaza Strip, and continue to slowly suffocate them for another 15 or even 150 years if the world does not wake up and say 'enough.'
to remind myself how the United States and Israel worked together to transform my homeland into what even the most mainstream NGOs describe as"the world's largest open-air prison."The story, as shocking as it may be, is quite simple. In early 2006, the Bush administration in the U.S. kindly"invited" the people of Gaza to head to the polls to elect their representatives in a legislative council election.
In the last 15 years, while under this medieval siege that turned us into prisoners in our own homeland, we also endured four genocidal wars. More than 4,000 civilians, including many children, perished under Israeli bombardment, for the sole crime of being born in Gaza. I wanted to find out, so I went to the Beit Hanoon checkpoint one morning at 6:00 am to try and obtain access to the files Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, has on me. I was told to join a queue and wait to be interviewed by a Shin Bet officer who may or may not tell me why I was not allowed to pass into the West Bank. I waited all day. At 5:00 pm, someone just asked me to leave without offering any information. To this day, I have no idea why my application was denied.
That rare recognition of our situation by an American leader was of course more than 10 years ago, in 2009. Since then, our situation has become demonstrably worse. And it will continue to worsen.
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