1. What does being a Jerusalemite mean to you? Is it a personal/family sense of connection with the city or is the fact that Jews have been there for thousands of years that connects you to the city?
2. Do you think literature is the best way to motivate people to change the political situation in the West Bank? Or might new technologies like Twitter and Facebook be more valuable to affect change, than literature?
3. Have you seen, first hand, abuses as mentioned in "The Promised Gas Masks" in research or wherever?
Articles:
These articles were interesting because they show what it is like to live under political oppression. Obviously the articles had definite degrees of bias, simply based off of the perspective of the writer. However, I enjoyed reading them because I did not know how difficult it actually is to live in a country where you cannot travel easily to the doctor or get medicine for you dog because you do not have the right passport. This was eye opening!
Regarding the gas mask article, I would feel so angry if I were treated like those Palestinians. That is really bad how the Israeli soldiers did not treat them humanely. As a member of the U.S. Air Force I can see how from a military's perspective, at least from the individual soldier, that you might treat people like that just out of being guarded. What I mean when I say treat people like that is how the soldiers talked to the Palestinians rudely, they told them to line up and get on the bus. The were ordering them around. That is what I mean when I say, it really is abusive.
The articles were definitely valuable for this class.
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