#PalestinianPrisoners: This is not the time to despair

The story of the six Palestinian political prisoners should inspire hope and action, not throw us into despair.

For four days, Palestinians inside Palestine and living in exile in the diaspora were euphoric. In an act of extraordinary creativity and determination, six brave Palestinian political prisoners tunnelled their way out of an Israeli maximum-security prison. It was presumed they did so with a spoon, as they would have had no other tools. Certainly, they had no heavy machinery typically necessary for such a feat. The tunnel openings were exceedingly narrow, leaving everyone baffled how six grown men were able to pass through them. I was immediately reminded of these lines from a Mahmoud Darwish poem: