"But here’s what I keep asking as I sit in comfort in my freely chosen home in Jerusalem, a citizen of the first sovereign Jewish state in 2,000 years:
What would I do? If I were born and grew up in Gaza, in a place where 1.8 million human beings are packed into a tiny piece of land; if I were oppressed and neglected by my own leaders, besieged on one side by Israel and the other by Egypt, cut off for the past decade from the rest of the world; if I had no access to clean water or adequate medical treatment, just a few hours of electricity a day, no prospect of employment; if I longed to overcome this miserable existence and dreamed of the stories my parents and grandparents told me about my idyllic ancestral home just a few kilometers away, which I had never seen and would likely never be permitted to see; if I had a deep respect for human life and abhorrence of killing — and an equal fury at the deaths of thousands of my family members, friends, and neighbors in three brutal wars in the past decade. What would I do? What would you do?"
