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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 [...]
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 [...]
The song kept bouncing around inside my head and simply would not leave me alone. I rode the bus from מחלה into and through ירושלים and finally ended up circling back out, ending up in a quiet suburb of Jerusalem called גילה. It was in Gila that the driver let me off at the last [...]
