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The Hope of a Victimized People

This essay was featured as the final segment of an on-line debate between George Bisharat and Judea Pearl that ran for five days as the "Dust-Up" website feature of the Los Angeles Times and its sister publications -- Newsday, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun.

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I am the son of a Palestinian father. Through countless stories about his family, I absorbed the ethic that the strong must help the less fortunate.