My Rights as a Foreigner

Every day in Palestine and Israel there are stark reminders that I, as an foreigner, have more rights than indigenous Palestinians that have lived here for centuries. I have enjoyed the right to move freely throughout all of historic Palestine, crossing all of the illegal borders that Israel imposed on Palestine. Meanwhile, most Palestinians cannot even travel to the sea or to visit their homes which Israel took from them in 1948 and 1967. In Hebron (Al-Khalil) people cannot even travel to all parts of their own town since the Israeli Defense Force has created checkpoints in the middle of the town. This is all by design, as Israel wants to make life so unlivable for Palestinians that they will be forced to leave their home and never return.