Last Friday Sen. John McCain and his running mate Gov. Sarah Palin outlined the McCain-Palin Commitment To Children With Special Needs, a three-part initiative to improve educational systems for students with learning disabilities.
Few people in the West Bank town of Beit Awwa knew of Vasam Musalmeh and his sister Nawal. Since they were children the disabled siblings were kept like animals in squalid, crumbling concrete rooms behind their parents’ house.