To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : And I will spend my life making up for the moments we lost - starting with this one, writing to you with all the love in my heart.
64% : So at every turning point in my life, you will find me choosing Palestine.
61% : Each crossing required me to prove my docility, my identity and my very right to exist.
55% : During your first moments, I buried my face in my arms and kept my voice low so that the 70 other men sleeping in this concrete room would not see my cloudy eyes or hear my voice catch.
55% : How is it that the same politicians who preach "family values" are the ones tearing families apart? Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper.

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