Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 6 months ago at 8:44 pm.
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I had heard about this place before I even stepped foot on Palestinian soil. I had been couch surfing along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, and was laying on a bed in Tel Aviv when a friend of mine emailed me a link to an article about Oush Grab. It was a short description of an art museum exhibition detailing the possible uses of old, decommissioned military bases, and it opened my mind to what things could be like following a military occupation [...]
Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 6 months ago at 12:40 am.
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The word “makh’som” is Hebrew, but is also often used in Arabic; only in English do we call it a “checkpoint.” Regardless of the different words, checkpoints also have different meanings among speakers of different languages. To Israelis, in Hebrew, a makh’som is a point in the separation wall where your average Israeli can’t pass. Except for settlers traveling to their settlement [...]
Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 6 months ago at 11:25 pm.
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I was fishing around my hard drive, cleaning up files and organizing folders, when I stumbled across this small little piece that I wrote over a month ago, when I was living with a friend in Haifa. It is a short response to the question “why do you support Israel?” It’s hard to describe my [...]
Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 6 months ago at 11:50 pm.
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Sometimes writing can be cathartic, though it can also be an absolute ordeal. Those who write fiction have the luxury of changing events, descriptions, and story lines that don’t agree well with one’s palate. As one who documents his own experiences, I have no such luxury to change facts on a whim; inventing farce would [...]
