In a Parallel Universe/1
Avigdor Lieberman said that the Baptist minister should be deported Thus Dr. Martin Luther King retorted: Injustice anywhere in the West Bank Is a threat to justice everywhere
Category: Palestine
From Russia with Love (A Day in the Life)
Two days ago at the Huwwara Checkpoint Two Palestinians, Ahmed Saleem and Michael Sabeh, And a Russian supporter, Al Karamazov, Were brutally beaten for refusing the orders Of the IDF soldiers in the area 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…
Words Matter
Dear Bella Some liberal Zionists in the US Are willing to concede (Generously, they believe) That the settlements ae a “problem” But according to international law The settlements aren’t a problem They’re a crime Perry
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…
The Way It Looked in 1923
Any native people (It’s all the same whether they are civilized or savage) Views their country as their national home Of which they will always be the complete masters They will not voluntarily allow Not…
Episodes/2 (How to Sleep at Night)
During Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 Diaspora moralist Elie Wiesel was of the opinion That given the dramatic sweep of thousands of years of Jewish history What was then taking place— The bombing of…
Seeing is Believing
1. Two years later, when I went to the United States to explain the suffering of the Vietnamese people and to plead for peace in Vietnam, I saw a woman on television carrying a wounded baby…