Israeli Diversity Shown Even Among Leaders (letter to the editor, The Harvard Crimson, 17 April 2002)

Natalie Portman · 17 Apr 2002

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Israelis and Arabs are one family, so a loss for either side is a loss for all humankind

Their wordsIsraelis and Arabs are historically cousins. Until we accept the fact that we are constituents of the same family, we will blunder in believing that a loss for one “side”—or, as Chaudhry names it, a “color”—is not a loss for all human kind.
Our reading
Every act of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should shame us and every child killed be mourned as our own

Their wordsWe must be ashamed of every act of violence and mourn every child as if they were our own.

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