Category: Palestine

The Look

 The latest generation of a problem that will not go away:  http://bit.ly/c8NQF9

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Remarkable evidence that Ezekiel Bulver is dying

… In 1941, Ezekiel Bulver recounted the story of how, at the age of five, his destiny was determined when he heard his mother say to his father – who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than the third – “Oh, you say that because you are a man.” …

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Tourism as terrorism

 I came across this interesting (if dismaying can be interesting) article today:  http://www.shipoffools.com/features/2009/a_visit_from_the_settlers.html  It contains a link to the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI):  http://www.eappi.org/en/about/overview.html  Apparently Baptists in Sweden and the UK are a more enlightened bunch than our local crop of rapture-ready nimrods…

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/03/21/tourism-as-terrorism/

Prez perks in Palestine

 Bush, in a typical display of sensitivity, remarked about his 30-minute trip between Jerusalem and Ramallah yesterday:  “You’ll be happy to know, my whole motorcade of a mere 45 cars was able to make it through without being stopped.  I’m not so exactly sure that’s what happens to the average person.” For an example of how average persons get …

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Searching for Zion

 Here’s a fascinating glimpse into Israel’s “Jewish democracy” from the perspective of an American woman: http://www.transitionmagazine.com/articles/zion.htm One of the things that struck me as I read this was how Palestinians are, for the most part, a remote abstraction, as thoroughly cleansed from the cultural landscape of Israel as the American Indian is from ours. PS — …

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On seeing Palestine as Cuba

 This morning, a friend wrote this: Please don’t misunderstand me, largely because of [others], I now have much greater compassion for the plight of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.  You-all have helped me see the other side of the coin, the one not easily available here because of the apparent pro-Israeli bias in our news …

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Gila Svirsky

 Have you yet read Susan Nathan’s “The Other Side of Israel?”  I must confess that I was a bit disappointed in the short presentation by Gila Svirsky yesterday.  The experience was no doubt influenced by the snubbing (whether real or just perceived I cannot say) of my Palestinian friend who tried repeatedly to ask a question …

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