With my daughter, just three years old, from The Hague to Amsterdam, a demonstration with 250,000 people. She can already say ‘free free Palestine’. Her favorite question? “Why?” The toddler version: “Because we want people to be kind to each other.” There is good company and a lot to see. Still, the hours in the hiking backpack are long for her. So we play a game: “I see, I see what you don’t see. And the color is…red!”
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