The Way It Looked in 1981 (The Arab Mind)
Anybody you catch outside his home First thing you beat him with a truncheon All over his body Except for his head Don’t have pity on anyone Don’t explain anything Beat first Then after You…
Category: Israel
Remembering and Forgetting/2
French intellectual Françoise Vergès observed: “Europe’s colonial domination has been the subject of a profound forgetting. This forgetting should be seen as a system: it is vital, for instance, to place the history of slavery…
Remembering and Forgetting (The Way It Looked in 2008)
With the establishment of a Palestinian state, we wish to see the end of the conflict. The Palestinians will be able to celebrate their independence if on that same day they also strike the word…
The Way It Looked in 1948
A small reaction does not impress anyone. A destroyed house–nothing. Destroy a neighborhood, and you begin to make an impression. David Ben-Gurion
The Way It Looked in 1999
Oslo required us to forget and renounce our history of loss and dispossession by the very people who have taught everyone the importance of not forgetting the past. Thus, ironically, we are the victims of…
The Way It Looked in 1982
In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of…
Righteous Israelis (Resisters [Torah])
Stephen Langfur was born in the U.S. and was a Conscientious Objector during the American war of destruction in Vietnam. When he moved to Israel, he joined the Israel Defense Forces but later refused to serve…
Checklist
Dear Bella Levenshteyn Johnny Yau and I came up with the following “application form” After drinking a couple of beers the other night Maybe you’d be willing to see If you’re ready to go to…
The Way It Looked in 2007
Beneath all the proclamations about Arab terrorism And the ethical nobility of the Jewish state Expropriation by any means necessary Is the master narrative necessary To comprehend the history of Israel/Palestine And so we arrive…
Stealing History
When the Israeli Army invaded West Beirut in September 1982 Israeli troops entered the Palestine Research Center Defaced its interior Carried away its entire library Consisting of 25,000 Hebrew, Arabic and English works On the…