When I was five, my father told me that I was Palestinian. I don’t know if he understood what he did, but that little piece of knowledge started a chain of consciousness in my then-child’s mind that would continue for a lifetime. Eventually, it led to the bitter realization that I now cannot escape — the awareness that we Palestinians live in an international system that has no place and no wish for us as a people.
Hours after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced that he had requested the court to issue arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement expressing his outrage over the decision because it equated him with Hamas leaders. The same outrage over this supposed “false equivalency” was echoed by the U.S. State Department and members of Congress. ….more