To Save My Home, I Fly This Flag

Mr. Ridi is a Palestinian American businessman whose home has been besieged by Israeli settlers for weeks. He wrote from Qusra, West Bank.

Since Aug. 9, my home in the West Bank village of Qusra has been under siege. Dozens of Israeli settlers have surrounded it as well as other homes in my village throwing objects at my house, destroying the fence around my property, and even cutting off our water and electricity in an apparent effort to drive out my family and our neighbors and take our village over.

I live in the United States full time, but built this house in Qusra, where my mother and much of my family still live. When Israeli settlers began attacking our village, I was in Toledo, Ohio, where I........

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