The things we take for granted in America are things Palestinians have to fight for every day of their lives. Yet they continue to battle the injustices inflicted upon them in non-violent ways, by getting up every morning to tend to their office jobs, their sheep, their olive trees, their students, their patients. They line up for hours at Kalandia checkpoint in Ramallah, or Houara checkpoint in Nablus to be given permission to go about the daily business of living. They stand quietly and obediently at checkpoints that divide up their country into parcels, while humiliated by young soldiers
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