A friend of mine told me about an interview that a media outlet carried out with a Palestinian child. Today, Palestine has not only remained the companion of our hearts and our prayers, but has also become the companion of every one of our gatherings, every passing or planned encounter. My friend tried to find me the interview on her phone. She said: \u201cYou have to see it for yourself\u201d. She searched; but did not succeed. She promised me to look for it again for my sake. However, she compensated me by telling me herself some of the details of the interview. She said that the broadcaster asked the child various questions. He asked him about himself and about the war. The question, the answer to which nearly killed me, was: \"What do you want to do when you grow up?\" The child said with poignant confidence: \u201cWe do not grow up!\u201d She ended her account of the interview, adding: \u201cTell me: Does any one of us have the right to grow up before the children of Palestine regain that they are capable of dreaming of a better life for themselves?\u201d No, we have no right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A friend of mine told me about an interview that a media outlet carried out with a Palestinian child. Today, Palestine has not only remained the companion of our hearts and our prayers, but has also become the companion of every one of our gatherings, every passing or planned encounter. My friend tried to find ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1882,361,1975,1922,447,1345,1898],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-children-in-conflict","tag-church","tag-human-rights-and-christianity","tag-orthodox-christian-social-issues","tag-orthodox-church","tag-palestine","tag-war-and-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}