Category: Journals

  • You and Whose Army?

    by Sholmo Bloom. Journal entry providing further insight to a previously published report on the same incident. It’s Shabbat, the Jewish holy day, also the day when the settlers cause the most trouble in Tel Rumeida. I was sitting on Shuhada street with two human rights workers when a Palestinian woman came walked by and…

  • Forgetting the Occupation, Almost

    by Daniela I was staring out the window of my office today, looking down from the seventh floor of this building that is also a shopping mall in the middle of Ramallah. I was watching a group of cab drivers sitting on stools in front of their cars, sipping tea and blasting music. All the…

  • IOF Soldiers Kidnap Family

    Shlomo Bloom Somehow I doubt the names and faces of the father and his three teenage boys who were kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Force soldiers tonight in Ramallah will be plastered all over news tomorrow like the face of Gilad Shalit, the kidnapped Israeli soldier. At about 2am last night we heard there were soldiers…