March 2012
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For the price of a cafe latte, you can help the...
For those of us internationals who care deeply about Palestine, it is hard to know just how to make a real difference. Probably the most significant way we can help is to change the foreign policy of our government (particularly if we are American). But while I keep trying on this front, I have come close to despair. I do sense some (too gradual for my taste) shifts in public opinion, but judging...
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March 15 one year later: The people wanted to end...
One year ago this week, Gaza erupted into one of the most exciting demonstrations of youth “power” I had ever had the joy to witness. The “Arab Spring” was in full swing, and this time, they believed, was their turn. Youth, and in many cases, their families, poured into the streets, chanting, singing songs and waving the flag of Palestine. Instead of an overthrow of the party that is governing the...
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The MSM's 'parallel reality'
On my long journey home from Gaza, I whiled my time away at the Frankfurt airport, where I had a six-hour layover, by catching up on the news. I had left Gaza in the midst of the latest Israeli military assault, with a front row seat over the course of that first night in the home of relatives of one of my adopted families. The bombing sounded alarmingly close as we huddled in the bedroom, smoked...
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This is the face of war
As I write this, Israel is bombing with intensity; 10 are dead already and casualties are reportedly filling the ERs. Resistance fighters are retaliating. On this, my last day in Gaza, I am confined to the home of a friend’s relatives — most likely until early in the morning…We are sitting around, chatting and listening to the news. And I am thinking…
These are my...
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Let there be light
There are so many basic things most of us take for granted….like, electricity. But in Gaza — especially these days — it’s a precious commodity.
Power (of the electrical kind) has been rationed to some extent ever since I started visiting Gaza in 2009. As a freelance writer, it became part of my daily routine to shift from place to place in search of a good wifi connection...
