Category Archives: Palestine

Bethlehem, or how the other half lives.

Posted on October 10, 2015 by

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 →

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“Unreasonable Behaviour”, by Don McCullin, Vintage

Posted on July 29, 2014 by

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 →

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51 years between them

Posted on June 30, 2014 by

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 →

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