• The world will understand us more

    from The Guardian Unlimited, 6 June 2007 A Palestinian boy blows up a balloon in front of Israeli border police during a non-violent protest against the construction of Israel’s West Bank barrier. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP Audio can be found HERE In the fields around the village of Ma’asara, south of Bethlehem, between the rows of vines, olives and almond trees, a long white scar has been carved across the face of the hillside. For now it…

  • (Part 2 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation

    Reportback from Daniel Part 2: the North: Agriculture, Theatre, a Cough to Kill for I took a 3 day, 2 night trip through the northern West Bank that started by going to Qalqilya, a fairly large Palestinian city that is almost completely surrounded by The Wall. The only way in and out is through a very narrow “bottleneck” with the wall on both sides, and the one road that has a checkpoint. The city is often…

  • (Part 1 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation

    Reportback from Daniel Part 1: Checkpoints, and Violence Against Nonviolent Demos I’m back from my whirlwind trip to Palestine. The trip was hectic and crazy and shocking. I think I accomplished my goal of seeing first-hand some aspects of the all-encompassing system of Israeli apartheid. Among other things, my trip included participation in 2 very different demonstrations: the first one in Bil’in, where demonstrators are not allowed even to get close to the Israeli soldiers, and…

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