Making a Difference

This is a short talk I gave recently in Penzance, Cornwall, during a Palestine-support event. Many of us get caught up in the big issues, often concerning our own countries' politics and inadvertently forgetting actual Palestinians in places like Gaza - and the politics is a nightmare that's going nowhere anytime soon.Here I talk about making friends with an actual Gazan, taking a person-to-person approach. It can have a bigger effect that you might at first imagine. And the friendship goes both ways.In the talk I recommend a website run by Gazan young people: www.wearenotnumbers.org - check it out.Thanks to Gershon Baskin of Jerusalem - a good-hearted Israeli - for a quote from his recent writing. Well done Adam Stout and Alison Dhuanna for organising the event - and thus raising 600 GBP to help a few Gazans.