Where's Baba? In an Israeli jail ...

Watch this heart-wrenching video below. Here a young Palestinian boy, somewhere around 4 or 5, witnesses his father being dragged away by Israel's occupation apparatus. His father's crime? Using Palestinian water. The Israelis deem this an 'illegal irrigation system', which basically means he tapped into a water supply that is reserved for Israel's settlers so that he too could access water. Nick Kristoff wrote an important piece about this recently.

So not only is the Israeli occupation stealing Palestinian water on Palestinian land and keeping it for illegal Israeli settlements, but they have the nerve to arrest a Palestinian farmer in front of his family for the crime of wanting to feed them. A recent headline in an Israeli newspaper speaks to just how delusional supporters of the Israeli occupation have become when it comes to a sense of right and wrong.

I know we often hear about incitement and cartoons that are supposedly convincing Palestinian children to hate Israelis. But as you listen to this child scream at the top of his lungs, I ask you to think about what could possibly form a more negative image in the mind of a child than the traumatic day when the Israelis came for his baba.

How many more countless Palestinian children have witnessed similar events?

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