brands for everyone – In Ramallah you have your coffee at the Stars & Bucks Café, get a sandwich at Sub & Deli and call your friends with your Facebook phone
(there is an iHouse too but I did not photograph that one…)
Tag: palestine
(Deutsch) Drama Ramallah
Wednesday February 26th, 2014 @ 05:29 PMRamallah, 2014
Sun Ray
Tuesday February 19th, 2013 @ 05:39 PM
The palestinia protest village of Bab Al-Karama, Beit Iksa, January 2013. Two men in the background are building the provisional mosque.
(Deutsch) SW #95
Tuesday January 29th, 2013 @ 02:39 AMA commander or an officer sees a camera and becomes a diplomat, calculating every rubber bullet, every step. It’s intolerable, we’re left utterly exposed. The cameras are our kryptonite.
An Israeli soldier serving in the West Bank
Eliaz Cohen – Poet, Settler, Leftist
Thursday January 24th, 2013 @ 11:01 AM
This is Eliaz Cohen, a remarkable man. A religious poet, a settler, a leftist. He was the reason I went to Kfar Etzion: I wrote a portrait of him for Zeit Online. My favorite poem of him:
SNOW
Snow on bleeding Jerusalem
as though bandaging her wounds
all rests in tranquility now
filling the cracks of yearning in the Wall
children in your streets, Jerusalem
the sons of Isaac and Ishmael
are staging white wars
(and their blows are soft)
even the pigeons are hurrying today
cooing because they have found new footprints
on the way leading up to the Gate of Mercy
Pictures from the Palestinian protest village of Al-Karama
Monday January 21st, 2013 @ 02:50 PM
Three days ago a new palestinian village was founded: Al-Karama. The people of Beit Iksa wanted to protest with this tent camp against the building of the seperation wall on their land. It was the second tent camp Palestinian activists used since the start of this year. Today, Al-Karama is no more. Israeli police destroyed the village last night. Continue reading “Pictures from the Palestinian protest village of Al-Karama”
(Deutsch) SW #88
Saturday January 12th, 2013 @ 05:01 AMOnce you retire from the service, you become a bit of a leftist.
Yaacov Peri, former chief of Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic secret service that is responsible for the Palestinian territories. Quote from the documentary “The Gatekeepers”.
Coffee Seller
Mary & Joseph in Bethlehem
Blue
Ghosts VII
Ghosts VI
Ghosts V
Ghosts IV
Ramallah Celebration
This stone ball is the best symbol for daily life in Israel and Palestine
Making a break during olive harvest in Palestine
Olive Farmers
