Imagine your house being taken from you by force, demolished before your very eyes. How could a person not be in despair or not feel powerless, stripped of dignity, and incapable of differentiating between good and bad? I’d seen further destruction as an adult when the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority was blasted into smithereens by a barrage of shells. How would we ever come back from this lethal attack on the men, women, and children—the innocent civilians of Palestine? How could psychologists, sociologists, medical doctors, and economists rehabilitate the people who had come
...more
