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remembered a line from those prison days:
Is there any hope that this desolation can b...
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Bassam had co-founded Combatants for Peace two years previously.
Hertzl had come to one of the meetings.
dozens of others who had gathered
including Rami, his wife Nurit, and their oldest son, Elik.
Later Hertzl wrote: If you divide death by life, you will find a circle.
When a bird has been ringed, the serial number is entered into a global database.
birds, then, are identified with the country where they were tagged:
As if they have been ascribed...
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Ornithologists in Israel and Palestine sometimes find themse...
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original meetings of Combatants for Peace
Everest Hotel in Beit Jala, in Area B, just
two sides met in the hilltop restaurant. Nervously...
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The Israelis leaned into the table. One
They had been in the forces, yes, but they had begun to speak out: against the Occupation,
humiliation, murder, torture.
Bassam sat stunned. He had never heard an Israeli mention...
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slowly dawned on Bassam that the only thing they had in common was that both sides had once wanted to kill people they did not know.
was an idea so simple that Bassam wondered how he had ignored it for so long:
they too had families, histories, shadows.
Combatants for Peace. That might work. It held contradiction.
Area A: administered by the Palestinian Authority,
forbidden, under Israeli law, to Israeli citizens.
Area B: administered by the Palestinian Authority, with shared securit...
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open to Israelis and Pal...
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Area C: an area comprising Israeli settlers and mostly rural Palestinians, administered by Israel and containin...
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Rami’s twenty-seven-year-old son, Elik Elhanan, who had served in an elite reconnaissance unit in the army.
late sister Smadar, killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem,
(Area A
open, at any time, to the Israeli army.)
(Area B,
Palestinian security forces operate only with Israeli permission.)
(Area C, the largest
most of the West Bank’s natura...
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controlled by...
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Palestinian Authority responsible for providing education and medical service...
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yellow license plate,
bumper sticker on the front left of the bike—
It will not be over until we talk.
Rami often felt that there were nine or ten Israelis inside him, fighting.
The one sick and tired of all the seeing.
It made him dizzy to carry such complications, to be so many people all at once.
What to say to Smadari? What is it like being dead, Princess? Can you tell me? Would I like it?
Let’s be honest here, guys. You would have been delighted by the news. You would have celebrated. Cheered.
And I would once have cheered for yours too. And your father’s. And your father’s father.
What sort of world are we living in? Look up. I...
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the blimp
It was so often like this. The desire to vanish. To have all of it gone in a single smooth motion. To wipe it all clean. Tabula rasa. Not my war. Not my Israel.
