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Palestinian fishermen fix nets on a boat as they start fishing off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Despite the signed agreements between Palestinians and Israel, which allow fishermen to go 12 nautical miles inside the Mediterranean Sea, Israeli navy targets Gaza fishermen almost daily and does not allow them to go further than three nautical miles, which the fishermen say is not enough to catch fish.
Palestinian fishermen fix nets on a boat as they start fishing off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Despite the signed agreements between Palestinians and Israel, which allow fishermen to go 12 nautical miles inside the Mediterranean Sea, Israeli navy targets Gaza fishermen almost daily and does not allow them to go further than three nautical miles, which the fishermen say is not enough to catch fish.
I have spent my entire adult life committed to the protection and preservation of the Nez Perce way of life and culture that has largely included fighting to free the flooded and barricaded lower Snake River along with improving habitat for ESA/Treaty fisheries resources.
I have learned that with many issues, whether it be the struggle of Native Americans or the struggle of Palestinians, it comes down to the tug and pull of scarce resources that are often sacred to one or more groups of people inhabiting the same area and based on various cultural or political views. In these struggles, it can often mean that a group of people is deprived of the right to use a valuable resource that they have known to have accessed for thousands of years. This difference in culture and religion along with strong and adverse political views has been the cause of millions upon millions of groups of people being killed for their resources.
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