A Shooting Last Week at ‘Separation Fence’ Invokes ’48

A savage video of the shooting (allegedly last Friday) of a Palestinian youth while protesting the "separation fence" in the Occupied Territories– the weekly Bilin protest, near Ramallah. The young man is shot in the right thigh, a grievous wound, survived it according to the text here. Seems to have been a mostly peaceful protest. Though stones were thrown. Feels very South-Africa-like. Peter Voskamp sent it along because of the last image in the film, a kid running near the ambulance with a t-shirt that says 1948 in huge numerals on the back. This is, alas, living history. I reflect that at the AIPAC conference, many speakers mentioned Harry Truman recognizing Israel in '48, a decision opposed by his Secretary of State. It's been 60 years: Can our American generation at last merge these narratives, find justice, and turn the page? Just a thought.