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Peace and justice are not words written in letters and on blogospheres, dotted across newspaper articles and bandied about at conferences or over cups of coffee. These values do not manifest increasingly with each time the words are thrown about, as they are solid entities that are created through action and not words. Peace is [...]
Bouncing along rural roads across the North Sinai, through the barren desert landscape full of scrub brush and occasional unfinished cinder block structures, so many thoughts rattle through my head. The bus is the last of three caravaning to the Rafah border crossing, and it is full of relatively subdued folks including myself who, for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
