{"id":7381,"date":"2009-04-14T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2009-04-14T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:11:01","slug":"the-quintessential-palestinian-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7381","title":{"rendered":""The Quintessential Palestinian Experience""},"content":{"rendered":"

Laila El-Haddad has written a powerful and infuriating post about going home to visit her parents<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Its not very comfortable in there is it?” said the stony faced official, cigarette smoke forming a haze around his gleaming oval head.<\/p>\n

“Its OK. We’re fine” I replied wearily, delirious after being awake for a straight period of 30 hours.<\/p>\n

“You could be in there for days you know. For weeks. Indefinitely. “So, tell me, you are taking a plane tomorrow morning to the US?”<\/p>\n

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\n…<\/p>\n

I hold a Palestinian Authority passport. It replaced the “temporary two-year Jordanian passport for Gaza residents” that we held until the Oslo Accords and the creation of the Palestinian Authority in the mid ’90s, which itself replaced the Egyptian travel documents we held before that. A progression in a long line of stateless documentation.<\/p>\n

It is a passport that allows no passage. A passport that denied me entry to my own home. This is its purpose: to mark me, brand me, so that I am easily identified and cast aside without questions; it is convenient for those giving the orders. It is a system for the collective identification of those with no identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please, please, please read the whole account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please do not comment unless you accept the basic dignity, equality, and inherent worth of all people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Cross-posted at Modern Mitzvot<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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