notes of a non-combatant

essays from the occupation

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hard boiled eggs

Posted by Ibi in America 1 year, 2 months ago at 8:14 pm.


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I was running down empty streets, watching the fighter jets pass overhead, their payload falling like raindrops and exploding into clouds of fire that enveloped the buildings around me. Before long, I found myself under one such building, an extremely large and architecturally interesting structure whose upper floors provided a canopy for a large courtyard [...]

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the northern strip

Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 3 months ago at 8:09 pm.


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The bus ambled down the waterfront road past beautifully designed houses, canvas tents erected as temporary shelters, beachfront stores and businesses, massive piles of rubble heaped along the roadside, houses pocked with a plethora of bullets and shrapnel scars, and collapsed houses sitting like messy stacks of giant gray pancakes. We could see Israeli gunships in the distance, glinting in the morning sun with black plumes of smoke hanging over them [...]

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