Mr. President, I very closely followed your trip to Israel this week, and I have to say, you confused me. You visited the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the most famous Palestinian of all time. The church is a United Nations World Heritage Site, listed in the UN under the […]
Month: March 2013
Barack, A Few Travel Tips
Mr. President, I hear you are traveling to Israel next week. As a concerned patriotic American citizen of Palestinian descent, I have some pointers for you. Now, I assume you’ll be flying into Tel Aviv. Usually, when non-Jews arrive there, especially if they are a little darker-skinned, they are asked to wait in a… let’s […]
I Can’t Escape Being Palestinian!
Being a Palestinian is relentless. It’s action-packed, hectic, and lively. It’s frantic, frenzied, and chaotic. It’s frenetic, feverish, and downright wild. (Those are all the appropriate words I could find in the thesaurus on Microsoft Word.) But don’t worry, I’m used to it. The past couple weeks have been especially eventful. It started with the […]