Comments on: Hands Not Bombs: From the cave of your invented neighbors

By: Scott Hoskins

Scott Hoskins — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:41:16 +0000

Change can happen when peoples minds are opened to new ideas, new ways of seeing. I have been so blessed to have known you, Tamara, and I am heartened by the knowledge that your voice, your words and your vision are opening up the world for others to hear, to read and to see a different reality. It gives me hope where so little hope can be found.

By: laila

laila — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:19 +0000

alex and brian.
If you belong to a people which trust in soldiers and weapons to protect itself and its way of life, I am not sure you have much moral authority to discuss what truly constitutes nonviolent resistance

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:01:36 +0000

Non-violence means not resorting to throwing rocks when tear gas is fired. I don’t think your definition of a non violent movement is adequate.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:23:37 +0000

Non-violent resistance? If only!

By: Mahmoud Abu Ayyash

Mahmoud Abu Ayyash — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:34:59 +0000

Expressive and beautiful words.
I hope that the Palestinian youth in the world are moving and putting their palms next to the palm of Tamara to bring down the wall and see the sun shining behind the wall … there are a lot deprived of the sun (the sun of freedom)
Always I remember the words of the poet Abu El Kacem a Chebbi
If people wanted life must obey, destiny
The Palestinian people deserve to live as the rest of the world’s people without occupation.We Must support the Palestinian farmers through volunteering to planting of land threatened with confiscation and participating in nonviolent demonstrations against the wall in each place in Palestine
thank you Tamara

By: Pamela Olson

Pamela Olson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:21:27 +0000

Really lovely essay, Tamara. Thank you. Hope for the future lies in people like you.

By: Peter Crownfield

Peter Crownfield — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:53:23 +0000

An excellent article, Tamara. Thank you. I hope you’ll also speak to groups here in the U.S., since many people are unaware of what’s really going on in Israel / Palestine. -Peter

By: Vicky

Vicky — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:28:05 +0000

“I’m not aware of soldiers checking passports in TLV, espcially ones with guns. border control is done by unarmed civilians.”
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There are civilian staff checking passports, but there are also soldiers involved in airport security stationed at Ben-Gurion, such as the ones who questioned me for close on three hours. It is quite common to pass through initial passport control and then find someone waiting for you a few feet on the other side, having been alerted by the person who checked your passport initially. That happened to me the first time I ever visited, as a tourist. I was young and travelling alone. I didn’t realise it at the time, but because of this I seemed to fit the profile of a solidarity activist. The last time I entered the country (with my parents in tow) I didn’t have any encounters with soldiers or other armed personnel in the airport at all, and it was this that felt unusual for me. For you it might be the other way round. The ‘welcome’ you get all depends on whom the airport staff perceive you to be.

By: Danny Demiculo

Danny Demiculo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:52:21 +0000

@Ayla: It’s not Tamara that will open your heart, it’s Zayzafouna. He may even have a street named after him for his efforts.

Tamara: If the palestinians are the indigenous people of palestine, how come they only founded one city ?

By: AYLA

AYLA — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:49:57 +0000

you’re a beautiful writer, Tamara. Keep writing from your heart; you’ll keep opening our’s. Thank you.