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It is a relief to know that I will be returning to Palestine following my next forty days of traveling. It has been quite an experience over the past three months, and as I pack my things in preparation for leaving the country, I realize that these past few months will leave their lasting mark [...]
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 [...]
She called me from her grandmother’s house while I was in her parents’ apartment. I had been standing on their balcony, looking out over the city like the mother and her daughter next door, the former wearing her hijab. The neighbors to my other side had strung small Israeli flags on their balcony banister along [...]
I was nodding off to sleep when the message came over the intercom. I couldn’t hear it over the music playing from my headphones, but I wouldn’t have understood the message even if I had heard it. It was the cute girl in olive drab fatigues that tapped me on the shoulder, prompting me to [...]
