Dear NPR,

I want to first and last commend you for being one of the only American news organizations that has hired an actual Palestinian news correspondent. I say “and last” because that’s the end of my commendations.

Let Gaza live! So we all shout Let Gaza live! The LAPD has shown up: about twenty cars at once. There will be forty of them by the time we are under arrest. The crowd has stopped attacking us. There is a kind of relaxing, like the motorcycles expelled from the highway had represented a gastric build-up, a burp. It’s settled. Let Gaza live! we shout.