Field of Voices: Planting Seeds of Resilience
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Dr. Laila Al-Marayati (l) and Naomi Shihab Nye with a poster of Gazan children. S. Twair photo
Award-winning poet and writer Naomi Shihab Nye told attendees at KinderUSA’s annual fund-raiser on May 13 at the Audubon Center in Los Angeles, “I’m rooting for the children of Gaza and all the children of the world who somehow have to survive in terrible circumstances created for them by adults. We, who have had longer on the planet, should know better. But the people in power do not seem to know better.”
Nye, a Palestinian American who lives in San Antonio, TX, went on to discuss the the Israeli army’s outrageous treatment of citizens in Gaza. She described the blockade as well as the sanctions against human beings who have as much right to live as any Israeli. Somehow Israe...