Reading the article below is like a never ending story. I read the article as if it was a novel awaiting the end, but the end never comes. Most are written just like that.
And the battle continues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/is-this-where-the-third-intifada-will-start.html?pagewanted=11&_r=2&hp
I could find a story that pitted the other side (and there is another side), but I won't bother.
If you are actually reading this and care about the 'other' side, you'll find it for yourself. I doubt it though, and so why should I bother?
People tell their stories not to have a dialogue but to hear themselves tell their stories. Having a dialogue might mean that you have to let go of your narrative, or parts of it. In the middle east, that doesn't happen and hence, the story continues.
Forget the power players, look at the poor Palestinian bastards going to protests every week and the poor Israelis that live like paupers not even considering that there might be another way to do 'business' with their Arab cousins.
Those are the guys going out to work everyday, and trying to make a living, they are the ones that suffer the most of this 'battle'. It's so contrived. It's so false and orchestrated. And somehow we 'all' think we are acting out of consciousness. Bullshit.
Friday afternoon I'm at the Western Wall. Sound grenades go off and it sounds like WWWIII has started on the Temple Mount. The tourists are the only 'normal' acting people. They back away from the wall and leave the Western Wall Plaza area. The religious keep praying at the wall, the military scurry a bit, the camera men (who've been told that there could be trouble on this day) have their cameras aimed at the top of the wall. And it's business as usual.
Except for the 'normal' tourists.
I hope the normal tourists keeping coming here and shedding light on what is not 'normal' to both Palestinians and Israelis. Maybe that's the only sane reference point for this place.
And the battle continues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/is-this-where-the-third-intifada-will-start.html?pagewanted=11&_r=2&hp
I could find a story that pitted the other side (and there is another side), but I won't bother.
If you are actually reading this and care about the 'other' side, you'll find it for yourself. I doubt it though, and so why should I bother?
People tell their stories not to have a dialogue but to hear themselves tell their stories. Having a dialogue might mean that you have to let go of your narrative, or parts of it. In the middle east, that doesn't happen and hence, the story continues.
Forget the power players, look at the poor Palestinian bastards going to protests every week and the poor Israelis that live like paupers not even considering that there might be another way to do 'business' with their Arab cousins.
Those are the guys going out to work everyday, and trying to make a living, they are the ones that suffer the most of this 'battle'. It's so contrived. It's so false and orchestrated. And somehow we 'all' think we are acting out of consciousness. Bullshit.
Friday afternoon I'm at the Western Wall. Sound grenades go off and it sounds like WWWIII has started on the Temple Mount. The tourists are the only 'normal' acting people. They back away from the wall and leave the Western Wall Plaza area. The religious keep praying at the wall, the military scurry a bit, the camera men (who've been told that there could be trouble on this day) have their cameras aimed at the top of the wall. And it's business as usual.
Except for the 'normal' tourists.
I hope the normal tourists keeping coming here and shedding light on what is not 'normal' to both Palestinians and Israelis. Maybe that's the only sane reference point for this place.
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