Father Dave's Al Quds Day speech 2016

It was again my privilege to be invited to speak at an Al Quds Day event, this time in the grounds of the Kingsgrove Mosque.

I was surprised to receive applause about half-way through my brief address and I wasn't sure at first what prompted it. It was afterwards that a Palestinian man came up to me and said "you said what we needed to hear. You told us not to forget Palestine. We are afraid that the world is forgetting us".

Indeed the man's plea makes sense. When there is so much trouble at home and abroad to absorb our energies, it is easy to forget the ongoing trauma of the Palestinian Occupation. The longer it goes on the more we are tempted to normalise it!

In truth, we must not forget Palestine!

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