Taking Sides
Carol, you posted, “Alas, Mark, must we always ‘Take sides’–or is there a middle way?” You know the Buddha would say there’s a middle way, for sure. You saw what Dom Pedro did, no “ifs,…
Category: Palestine
Sumud
A Message from Dr. Zeina Kiblawi: Finally made it to our hotel, after a 7 hour detainment and repeated (insulting and meaningless) interrogations at Tel Aviv airport. Apparently, the desire to help Palestinian neonates is…
Reasons of State Or Reasons of Memory
First published in The Ecumenist, 1997. Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York: Penguin USA, 1995. $27.95, U.S.A; $36.99, Canada. Throughout this spring, there have been several…
Accompaniment
Dear Layla We are staying with the Hijazzi family these nights We arrive in time to break the fast in the evening Spend the evening then sleep over Leave around 7 in the morning Yesterday…
Sumud by Madeline Buthod
PSC member Madeline Buthod is on an Inter-Faith Peace Builder’s delegation and offers us the following testimony… Today we went to the Tent of Nations, a hilltop farm just outside of Bethlehem. To get there…
Sara Roy Challenges Elie Wiesel
This is a must-read prophetic address by researcher Sara Roy to Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel on the latter’s contribution to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
Two Epigraphs from Neve Gordon’s Book, “Israel’s Occupation”
The PLO struck a political bargain with the Israeli government: In return for recognition and permission to return to the occupied territories, the Palestinians would police the local population and refrain from insisting that Israel…
With the Gazans
Palestinians in short do not deserve anything like a narrative or collective actuality, and so they must be transmuted and dissolved into essentially negative images. —Edward Said, From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map:…
Numbers
for Hedy 45 phone calls on 8.15 82 guests at birthday party 1948 arrival in USA 5 attempts to reach people in Gaza 2 grand-daughters 20+ years working fair housing 1982 wake-up call 2 parents…