Category Archives: Palestine
Behind the wall.
It takes a while for me to get the hang of Checkpoint 300. Eventually a corridor in nude concrete and steel, half prison half abattoir, delivers me in a street cul-de-sac’d by the wall. Closed shops and scraps of paper … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Middle East, Palestine
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Bethlehem, or how the other half lives.
Call me ignorant, but Bethlehem always evoked pastoral ideas, of secluded grottos – or shacks, depending on the version you liked the most – and of comets. What we found was (once we got on the Arab bus that no … Continue reading
“Unreasonable Behaviour”, by Don McCullin, Vintage
I was ravaged and confused by this war as never before, and could not see not the smallest justification for it. Or for my presence here – unless it was to remind people, through my pictures, of the futility of … Continue reading
Posted in Books review, Israel, London, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, UK, War journalism
Tagged Books review, Don McCullin, Photojournalism, War
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51 years between them
So it’s official. Naftali, Gilad and Eyal, the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped just outside Hebron, West Bank, have been found dead. They barely had 51 years of age between all of them. It also seems that they had been killed … Continue reading
Posted in Holy land, Israel, Palestine, Reflections
Tagged Conflict, Hebron, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
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