After the Nazi holocaust there was a sense amongst Jews that they could not allow Hitler to be successful in his aims of genocide, thus giving political meaning to having children. Likewise, the continuing ongoing policies of terror, economic warfare, and harassment by the Israeli government meant to drive Palestinians from their homeland (with no right to return) has given a political meaning of resistance to the act of giving birth by those Palestinians that remain. That resistance is the simple act of attempting the survival of a people in the face of state sponsored genocide.