Category: Journals

  • Qawawis

    End of June, 2005 By M. Settlers brought their sheep to graze on land belonging to Qawawis. The villagers called the police who did not seem interested. After about 40 minutes a jeep with 5 soldiers showed up. Some men in the village started to talk with them but the soldiers refused to speak with…

  • Justice?

    By Marcie Yesterday I woke up early and headed for a small village in the West Bank, outside of Ramallah, called Bil’in. I arrived earlier than I had expected so I wandered around trying to see where the new portion of the Apartheid Wall will be built to encircle this town and imprison its inhabitants.…

  • Anniversary Protest in Bil’in met with military violence

    By A. To mark the one year anniversary of the International Court of Justice decision that the annexation barrier being built by Israel is illegal, hundreds of villagers, Palestinians from surrounding villages, internationals, and Israelis demonstrated in Bil’in on Friday. The people of Bil’in constructed a three-meter high scale, with Israel on one side and…

  • When You Remember

    A poem By Bob Green Marhaba Ya Rifka! Hello! Marhaba Yoram, Malka, Avishai, Marhaba K’tsia, Marion, Yehoshua, Yaël. Keef hal-ak? How are you? Beloved friends of my father and mother for 50 years – When will I visit you in Tel Aviv? In Zichron Ya’aqov? When will I walk in your vineyards? Meet your grandchildren?…

  • Another Child- Update from Balata

    I’m tired. Not just from sleep deprivation — the Israeli occupation forces have entered several nights this week — although that is some part of it, or the anaemia I’ve now succumbed to. I’m tired by the frustration and heartbreak of being 50 metres away again when the Israeli army shot another Palestinian child, 16…