Thursday, March 13, 2008
Palestine Underground: 'So That You'll Have Palestine In Your House'
" . . .
most people I know and respect are what I would call Palestine Underground. Simply nice people who go about the business of living the best they can, mainly focused on their families. Wise and well educated people who have found it is safer and saner to support Palestine in more subtle personal ways- mainly keeping alive recipes and memories- and laughter, and with ever growing families passing on respect for the family, as well as for all of historic Palestine. " From Growing Gardens for Palestine
most people I know and respect are what I would call Palestine Underground. Simply nice people who go about the business of living the best they can, mainly focused on their families. Wise and well educated people who have found it is safer and saner to support Palestine in more subtle personal ways- mainly keeping alive recipes and memories- and laughter, and with ever growing families passing on respect for the family, as well as for all of historic Palestine. " From Growing Gardens for Palestine"This is for you," said Aunt Jean to me in July, 2003 after lunch in her San Francisco Sunset District townhouse. She handed me a Palestinian embroidered wall hanging.
"So that you'll have Palestine in your house."
