Archive for the 'Journals' Category
The Losers are Too Numerous to Name
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Tubas Regionby Anna Baltzer, 15 May 2007
Palestinian performers depict typical scenes of interrogation, abuse, and torture of Palestinians in Israeli...
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Pushed into the Sea? Try pushed out of your neighborhood instead..
Sunday, May 13th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Hebron Regionby: Yifat Appelbaum
Firas used to live in the old city of Hebron until 1 year ago when he and his whole family left as a result of the settler and soldier violence.
He asked me to go with him to visit the old house, which his family still owns. He wanted to see what kind of condition it was in and he knew the soldiers at...
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Final Thoughts on Four Days in Palestine
Saturday, May 12th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Hebron Region, Bil'in Villageby: -bat.
I know a number of people have started reading my journal in order to read the Palestine stuff. Thank you for reading, and I am flattered by the attention, but you are kind of in the wrong place. I only did three days out there, just visiting, and then came back. I am not (yet) an activist, and somewhere in the back...
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The road back to Ramallah
Monday, May 7th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Hebron Region, Ramallah Regionby: -bat.
Katie and I head out of Hebron in a service taxi, one of the large ones this time, and retrace the route I had taken the night before. It had been dark when I arrived, but now it is daylight, and I have someone to explain what’s going on beside the road as we travel. In daylight she points out to me just how many...
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“I pity you for having become murderers”
Monday, May 7th, 2007 | Posted in Journalsby Anna Baltzer, 5 May 2007
Five years ago, nine-month-old Mohammed and his grandmother were in their West Bank home when it began to fill with nerve gas from a nearby Israeli Occupation Forces military base. The Army had moved in on a hill near their home in the Skan Abu Absa suburb...
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Denial of Dignity, Denial of Entry
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Denial of entryEccerpts from by Nadia’s journal 3 May 2007
What happened to me yesterday is something I couldn’t imagine possible, not because I didn’t think I could be refused entrance into Israel. There always was a possibility I would be interrogated, but not in the way they did.
59 Years Ago: Deir Yassin
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Salfit Region, PhotosRemembering Deir Yassin
by Anna Baltzer, 1 May 2007
Um El Fahim town in present-day Israel, home to 48,000 Palestinian...
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To Azmi Beshara:
Monday, April 30th, 2007 | Posted in JournalsTo Azmi Beshara
by Juliano Mer Khamis, 29 April 2007
Azmi, My Brother,
You had the good sense to see what was coming – the security forces in cooperation with the judicial system of Israel decided to take steps against, what they call the “strategic...
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