Grandmother Calls Yemen the Hero in Conversation About Palestine
The other day, my grandson asked, "Granny, who's gonna save Palestine?"
And I had to pause for a minute. Of course, he's here sometimes while I'm
making my little video, so he hears, and I try to do my best
to explain what is happening
in the world and with this genocide, because he
asks.
Of course, for an 11-year-old, there has to be a hero,
right? Always in their cartoons and movies, there's the
good guys and the bad guys. In this case, I had to say,
"We are the bad guys, our government,
and Yemen are the heroes."
I think about Yemen. I was thinking about them all day yesterday
after that strike on Israel. I'm thinking about them
today with the retaliatory strike on this little
country a thousand miles away or more
from Palestine, who every day come
out in their hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
to protest against this genocide.
And I think I answered him correctly when I said, "Those
are, in fact, the real heroes."
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