"...lived in an attractive, quiet area with parks and clean, well-ordered streets - amenities that our cities could not enjoy after the large-scale confiscation of Palestinian land." (pp. 155-156)
"What made our meetings easier was that this time Henry and I were politically on the same side. My heart was not with this armed struggle against Israel, which I saw as futile, but I was still trying to understand and make sense of it all and needed Henry's help." (p. 156)
Injustice can and should be opposed by campaigns, demonstrations, lobbies, boycotts, strikes, occupations and, unless we are pacifists, sometimes by armed struggle. Communities and individuals certainly have a right of self-defense against an oppressive state.
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