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Prince sprinkled lines from the Song of Solomon on various tracks on his fifteenth album, Come.
Pheromone where he sings about his left hand under a lover’s head while his right embraces time.
Smadar would have been a member of the Machsom Watch, the Israeli women who monitored the checkpoints.
Women in Black, an Israeli human rights group, was founded in Jerusalem in 1988—nine
signs with the image of a black hand with white lettering: Stop the Occupation.
Chromesthesia
perceptual phenomenon
sounds automatically evoke the experien...
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Women in White, Las Damas de Blanco, were formed in 2003
protest the imprisonment in Cuba of lawyers, students, journalists and intellectuals.
mothers of the disappeared in Chile and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina too.
Damas de Blanco group was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought,
in 2005,
Smadar went to Paris Square in Jerusalem with Nurit to join the protesting women.
Nurit was awarded the Sakharov Prize in 2001.
Izzat Ghazzawi, a Palestinian writer and teacher.
Ghazzawi’s son—also named Rami—had been shot dead in his schoolyard by Israeli snipers at the age of sixteen.
Two years after the award, Nurit heard that he had died of a broken spirit.
Forgive us our longing, Ghazzawi wrote, if it intensifies.
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education, by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Dalia el-Fahum’s album, Migrations,
she said she wanted to find a place within the sounds where nobody could find her.
He never told Smadar that he had killed at least one person, probably more,
He told the boys
he wondered if they too knew that moment of nothingness that exists between the bullet and the fall.
science, the hard problem of consciousness is the question of how physical processes in the brain give rise to our subjective experience of the mind and the world.
On the morning after the bombing, Netanyahu called.
Nurit picked it up. She knew Netanyahu from school.
No, Nurit said, he was not welcome ...
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The next day the conversation was news. She was interviewed again later in the week. The killing was not the fault of the bombers, she said. The bombers were victims too. Israel was culpable.
Amicable numbers are two different numbers related in the sense that when you add all their proper divisors together—not including the original number itself—the sums of their divisors equal each other.
220
284
They are the only amicable numbers under 1,000.
Salwa didn’t open the newspapers. She stepped away from the television.
She supported what Bassam did, Rami too, Nurit as well, but she wanted only to pursue the ordinary.
The packages unhinged Rami and Nurit. They arrived from the Ministry every Memorial Day.
The note—a special message to the bereaved—was florid.
On this momentous Memorial Day we wish to honor Smadar’s memory and the special sacrifice you and your family have made for the eternal State of Israel.
Nurit was...
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how they co-opted Smadar as...
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She and Rami took a hammer and a wedge to the glass bowl and smashed it to pieces,
put the pieces in the box, re-ribboned it, and shipped it to Netanyahu with her own note: Dearest Bibi, something is broken.
Four years later—after completing his military service—Yigal stood onstage in Tel Aviv in front of seven hundred people, alongside Araab Aramin,
Alternative Memorial Service, for Palestinians and Israelis both,
My name is Yigal Elhanan. I was five years old in 1997 when I lost my sister Smadar.
My name is Araab Aramin. I was fourteen years old when my sister Abir was shot in the back of the head.
The soldier who killed my sister was a victim of an industry of fear.
The only revenge is making peace.
We do not talk about peace, we make peace. Uttering their names together, Smadar and Abir, is our simple, unadulterated truth.
