The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Mahmoud Abbas, New York TimesSixty-three years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home in the Galilean city of Safed and flee with his family to Syria. He took up shelter in a canvas tent provided to all the arriving refugees. Though he and his family wished for decades to return to their home and homeland, they were denied that most basic of human rights. That child’s story, like that of so many other Palestinians, is mine.This month, however, as we commemorate another year of our expulsion — which we call the nakba, or catastrophe — the Palestinian people...

Drea de Matteo Drew Barrymore Ehrinn Cummings