Blinded In Gaza

June 20th marked World Refugee Day. And just as this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, next year will mark the UN resolution that established the UNRWA, UN Relief and Works Agency...for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. However, we note that some anniversaries commemorate births of communities, recalling the horrors and Holocaust that preceeded, while other anniversaries mark the continuation of another people's holocaust: 60 years of destruction. There is an editorial for World Refugee Day from Karen Konihg AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of UNRWA: http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/statements/2008/WRD_20jun08.html Some holocausts never end. We fought to end one; others we cannot or will not stop. This is what I mean by a "test" of a society: the line of possible future ramifies into an infinite forest of branching paths, and we must take the most humane, the most moral ones, else we shall find ourselves lost and blinded in Gaza.