In the Contra Costa Times
AS THE NUMBER of reporters in Gaza to cover Israel’s disengagement threatens to eclipse the area’s population and settlers haggle with their government over compensation for leaving voluntarily, Mohammed Khatib and his friends and neighbors in the West Bank village of Bil’in are being shot at with rubber bullets and inhaling tear gas.
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd’s flock.
