A light unto the nations
As the Palestine Solidarity Movement approaches, students—pro-Arab, pro-Israeli, non-partisan and those who fall under more than one of these categories—should begin to think of the right questions to ask during the conference. At the very least, PSM conference participants and the Duke community should affirm the basic human right—the right to life—and with it, reject all groups that employ the killing of innocent civilians to achieve a political or military objective. As a result of the conference, we at Duke have the opportunity to form a genuinely progressive movement—that is, a community committed to progress in the Middle East conflict—a group of people of all political and religious motivations who recognize that human rights are the only basis upon which a consensus can be built.