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She is choking, fighting back tears. “All my life I’ve been struggling for peace.
Well, if I can’t get any info about the Daughter of Hanan I try to get some about the Son of God.
don’t think much about it, frankly.” Are you an atheist?
Palestinians are of the “longest Christian tradition in the world,”
she who blames Israel for all the ills in her society
would not point one single accusing finger at the Musl...
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intellectual capacity to avoid...
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guess that so far I’m doing very well in this part of the world, going from one dead to another: from the Mount of Olives to Arafat’s Tomb.
walk the streets of Ramallah, a gorgeously beautiful and rich city,
locals were being killed by the government. The people heard this, got afraid, and left.”
Moments later, navigating my body around an endless stream of people, I mount a bus to Ramallah.
Dr. Ehab Bessaiso, “Spokesperson of the Government,”
UN General Assembly vote in 2012 which recognized Pale...
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The Israelis have taken our food and call it Israeli food!”
who used to be a professor before joining this ministry, to define for me Palestinian culture.
“Tolerance and c...
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for it implies that either he or Hanan is a liar.
very upset. He goes into long monologues about totally unrelated issues,
I know nothing and that the West is nothing but a bunch of arrogant people.
get to meet a famous Palestinian singer,
man named Khaled, a poet from Gaza who is presently staying in Ramallah.
restaurants open for unbelievers ...
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a German-Jewish woman, was “my mother,” but that after graduating from school she is no longer in touch with
Israel has stolen my mother’s dress; they call this dress ‘Israeli.’ They have stolen my food; they call my food ‘Israeli.’”
How this translates into murder, or almost murder, is beyond my capacity to comprehend.
I’m not sure which law book decrees that a state, of whatever nature, must pay for five years of music classes, in addition to over two years of social studies to its citizens who are not Jewish (Jews don’t get free university education in Israel), but if this is called Occupation, I’d like to be occupied for the rest of my life.
The Occupiers have dictated that a Christian woman married to a Muslim must raise her kids as Muslim.
is actually Islamic law,
She has spoken to Western journalists before, and if I challenge her she might doubt my Aryan roots.
I ask myself, who could the extremists be?
as people I just love them.
There’s a brotherhood here, warmth, friendship, sense of togetherness.
of John Kerry, husband to Teresa Heinz
he is the current American Secretary of State.
stay in a posh hotel here and in a posh hotel there,
he’s never going to learn that the Middle East is made of Arieh and Nadia, not of ketchup and mayonnaise.
only peace seeker of humanity. Jews who live in the State...
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very busy raising money for Adalah (“justice”),
check Adalah on Steve’s tablet
Haaretz, the most left-leaning daily Israeli paper,
is of the “healthy” variety: natural and tasteless.
they are not used to having their opinions challenged.
Toby, I say, intellectuals who refuse to acknowledge facts are worse than idiots.
I’m a recovering intellectual, Toby. I come from where you come from, the university,
Toby, when is the last time you visited Ramallah? “Never.”
“President Shimon Peres,” it says, will host at his residence “an Iftar dinner to break the Ramadan fast.
Naturally, a man like me must mingle with leading Muslim figures and foreign ambassadors.
wonder if Obama hangs the same pictures on the walls of the White House.
look around and wonder which table I should sneak to, without anybody telling me to get up.
This Qadi must be from Meah Shearim. They like it holier.
