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…
Category: Israel
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…
The Way It Looked in 2002
Sure he was obedient to orders But he went beyond mere duty The IDF soldier was all revved up With not a second to waste To do what needed to be done And to do…
A Day’s Work (Checkpoint [Life under Occupation])
I ran toward them and punched an Arab right in the face I’d never punched anyone that way He collapsed on the road The officers said that we had to search him for his papers…
Compromismo (Touching a Nerve)
On a summer day in 1944 My mother was herded from a cattle car Along with the rest of its human cargo Which had been transported from Belgrade To the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen She…
The Way It Looked in 2010
When we define the struggle against foreign rule as nonviolent or violent, it’s as if we have asked the occupied to prove their resistance is kosher (or not). And to whom? The very foreign rulers…