An hour after I left Shatila, I could still taste it. The refugee camp was crowded when it was created in 1948 by the International Committee of the Red Cross to accommodate Palestinians displaced by the creation of Israel. Today, it’s a slum with an estimated 20,000 people packed into one square kilometer. Snarls of […] Read more »
LEBANON: Shatila, Part II: Bloated Bodies Leave Lingering Aftermath
Nasreen was a few weeks shy of her sixth birthday when nearly everyone she’d grown up with was murdered. Her family narrowly escaped the brutal massacre at the Shatlia refugee camp in Beirut where more than 3,000 Palestinians were slaughtered by a Lebanese Christian militia during a drug-hyped weekend in 1982 in what remains the […] Read more »
ISRAEL & PALESTINE: The 50-Family Fishbowl
How do 50 families live and work together so closely without driving each other crazy? Especially when every other family comes from a culture and background that society tells you to hate? It’s one thing to argue over the town’s budget; it’s quite another to tell each other how to handle the worst tragedy a […] Read more »
ISRAEL & PALESTINE: Signs of the (Wrong) Time
A college student is touched by a canada pharmacy online cialis vandalized park sign that had described the 1967 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes. photo by Kelly Hayes-Raitt[/caption]I joined the Jewish college students on a tour through 3 Palestinian villages the Israeli Army invaded and destroyed in 1967. More than 7,000 Palestinians fled Amuas, […] Read more »
ISRAEL & PALESTINE: Smuggling Democracy
I smuggled in Jimmy Carter’s book. I wasn’t sure what scrutiny I might be under coming into Israel, and I didn’t want to chance being denied entry, so I hid the book, hoping it would elude any searches. When I mentioned this to a Jew, she was politely offended and assured me the former US […] Read more »