Mommy blogs are meant to be sweet tributes to children and opportunities to brag about the most mundane things your little ones do, while showing off their cutest pictures. It is fun and challenging to jetset around the world with children, and in doing so I hope they will be instilled with a sense of deep curiousity, independence, cultural respect and political knowledge.
A visit to the West Bank is not a trip to Disney Land. The Separation-Apartheid Wall that acts as the barrier between the West Bank, Palestine and Israel is designed to imprison over 2 million Palestinian people. Taking my 3-month-old, daughter, Serene, through-and-around checkpoints is a privilege, because she is allowed to be pushed like cattle back-n-forth behind this wall. Palestinian children and their parents are locked behind it living under occupation in an oversize prison and have little hope that their situation will change in the near future.
