Dear Khader and family:Throughout history the most unselfish among us put their lives so astonishingly, so willingly on the line to remind us that human decency is worth aiming for, despite the cynicism, laziness, fear and acquiescence to turning money and militarism into our gods. So so many of us are too trapped by the cultural norms which perpetuate injustice. But the most dedicated liberators from our collective trance who refuse to be seduced by the delusions of material power and security by force may not experience wholly satisfying 'fruition' when performing their selfless acts, but their examples do inch us all incrementally closer to a more compassionate, more decent and just existence upon this miraculous planet. They break our hearts and open them to more than was possible before when they were closed off to the suffering of others. They reduce our daily cowardice and complicity and increase our primordial confidence in our unity and in the brotherhood and sisterhood of humankind. Sometimes enough of a tipping point is reached by a hunger strike or other nonviolent methods in going up against enormous wrongs such as those perpetrated against the Palestinian people to actually shift things in the favor of the heart-wisdom of humanity. This is of course my hope and the hope of any of us who cannot abide the genocide, the apartheid or cruelty of such oppression of our fellow human beings. We must search in our hearts for the courage and insight and creativity to act ourselves out of inspiration when a brother is so very dedicated to rousing the truth in our spirits, that we are all one... we are all Khader.In Peace and Solidarity,
Lynn Farquhar, Denver
Lynn Farquhar, Denver