June 5th -- the anniversary of a war-- I think if black people aren't slaves in America any more & the US now has a black president, and if women can vote, and the Berlin wall fell, and Apertheid ended, if there is a list of child rights, and the Holocaust didn't exterminate the Jews, then of course Palestine will be free. And all the demons in hell, can't stop our freedom from coming. -- Ibtisam Barakat 2010
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