CONFESSION ZERO

-From Palestine to a Prison- (click to enlarge) 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine (and World War II and Palestine) End of the British Mandate 1945–1948 1948 Palestine war Clash in Egypt Over Gaza Aid Effort 2009 O! How happy the prisoners in their own land seemed before this! All smiling at the chance of relief and food and breath, feet firmly planted on a shrinking plot to the west of the Jordan River. The prisoners have no rights, no government, no land or love. No history to hold, no child to mourn, no passion, no art. Hostage to giant machines, to guns, to tumbling shells and terror, prison guards, tanks, and the rising wall, yet they do have rights and governance and land and love and history and child and passion and art- truth. O! How happy the prisoners of their own land seemed before this! Facing the Mediterranean, the great watery span between home and the press of hate, the Jordan and Dead Sea behind, vultures awaiting their anointing like bone-filled