"Is running water what makes us happy?"  This question, coming from a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in At-Tuwani, where there is neither running water nor electricity, has made me think.  What is the ideal human condition anyway?

When we asked Nasser, who lives in the tent town of Susiya, what he'd wish for if he had three wishes, he only had one answer for us: freedom.  Freedom for his country and for his family.  He did not ask for running water or electricity but for freedom from military occupation.