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My Walk from Ramallah to Jerusalem
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 13th 2008
I left my Ramallah apartment Tuesday morning at about 8:20, walked to Al-Manarah as a fitting starting point, and started walking toward my goal, Jerusalem’s Old City. It took some seven hours to get there, but if I’d gone without my ca read more
Made it to Jerusalem
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 11th 2008
I’m sitting in an Internet cafe in Jerusalem’s Old City, seven hours after leaving my apartment. Probably half the time was spent walking, the rest taking pictures, taking breaks, talking to a few people along the way. Now I’m on my read more
Tomorrow Jerusalem
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 10th 2008
Tomorrow I plan to walk from Ramallah to Jerusalem, where I’ll visit friends and relatives for a couple of days. The road distance from Ramallah’s Al Manarah Square to Jerusalem’s Old City looks to be about 10 miles. That should be read more
Back to Birzeit
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 10th 2008
This afternoon I took a service taxi out to Birzeit University to catch up on things with Asem Khalil, a constitutional law professor who directed the Law and Society research project I was briefly involved with during my 2006 visit. The campus was p read more
Today’s Ramallah Walk
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 9th 2008
After this morning’s Arabic class, checking my email at an Internet cafe, and lunch in my apartment, I wandered around for a couple of hours, camera in hand. First I headed a few blocks west to where Ramallah’s expansion into the hills bu read more
Bil’in and back to Ramallah
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 9th 2008
After uploading my blog entry about Friday’s protest at Bil’in, I went with Rateb first to hang out in a small grocery warehouse of sorts with one of his brothers and a few friends who were drinking tea, smoking argeela, watching three pl read more
Today’s Bil’in Protest
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 7th 2008
Bil’in’s weekly march to the Separation Fence blocking free access to their land got off to a spirited start despite small numbers. Last week, Rateb told me, there were more than 200 internationals on site, with a number of dignitaries. A read more
Israeli Military Going After Nonviolent Activists
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 7th 2008
Ha’aretz reports today that the Israeli military is trying to get information from Israeli police about specific Israeli activists who support Palestinian resistance to the Occupation so it will be easier to issue restraining orders against th read more
Ramallah and Bil’in From Up High
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 6th 2008
I met my Arabic teacher this morning on the top floor coffee shop in the building where Stars and Bucks is down closer to the bottom. The view from the top was pretty impressive, both down at Al Manarah Square… and out in several directions. read more
Ramallah Talk
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 5th 2008
This morning I wandered through the many small shops in one own downtown building, arrayed on about seven floors packed with cellphone stores, a virtual reality center, some clothing and jewelry stores as well as other kinds, a prayer room, and Stars read more
Obama from Palestine
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 5th 2008
I woke up this morning a few minutes into Barack Obama’s victory speech, which I watched on the BBC. He knows how to talk, and the emotions on the faces in the audience moved me despite my cynicism. I do think that the election of a black man read more
Arabic. Planning. Laundry. Election. Israelis in Ramallah.
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 4th 2008
My first Arabic lesson with Marwan focused this morning on sorting out where the many gaps are in whatever it is I already know. Arabic remains difficult, especially the transition from my faded memory of classical Arabic’s logic to the Palesti read more
Pattern. Reflection. Abstract.
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 4th 2008
When I began this blog four years ago to report on my first Israel/Palestine trip in three decades, I envisioned more writing than photographing. Gradually the photos became just as central. Most photos during this current trip relate to the day̵ read more
My Ramallah Plan
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 4th 2008
Wander around. Soak up the atmosphere. Get together with the few people I know here, see some interesting organizational projects, go where the political action is. Talk to strangers without forcing it. Take photos of Palestinian life and whatever el read more
Ramallah Musings
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 4th 2008
I’m sitting here in my living room at about 6 pm Monday night Ramallah time, the TV tuned to BBC World News after an hour or so of Al Jazeera. I was out most of the day, and when I finish this rambling I’ll get outside once again, at least to che read more
Qalqilya, then Back to Ramallah
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 2nd 2008
Leaving Jayyous before 7 this morning, when Sherif and his wife left for the gate through the Separation Fence to get to their olive trees, we took a service taxi to Qalqilya, a city of some 40,000 Palestinians completely surrounded by the Separation read more
Jayyous
Dennis Fox's Weblog | November 2nd 2008
It’s common to hear Israelis say the Separation Wall keeps terrorists out of Israel. Whatever validity that justification might have — at least for potential bombers who don’t bother to call a knowledgeable car thief or a taxi from East Jeru read more
ItIsApartheid on the Wall
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 30th 2008
Yesterday morning, before leaving the hotel, I had coffee with Alan, who was getting ready to go to Jerusalem now that his portion of the Health and Human Rights Delegation was coming to an end and the GCMHP conference was over. He said he hoped to read more
Wandering Ramallah Looking for Connection
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 30th 2008
Not having an Internet connection in my Ramallah apartment, with all the neighboring wifi connections password protected, remains a hassle. After checking in yesterday afternoon first from Ramallah Municipal Park until the connection weakened and the read more
GCMHP Conference Day 2
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 28th 2008
Today the technology worked better. Teleconferencing glitches between Gaza and Ramallah were within the realm of manageable, though the added distractions of simultaneous translation made it hard to listen for long stretches. More important, aside read more
GCMHP Conference Day 1
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 27th 2008
Israel’s refusal to let our group of more than a hundred doctors and academics enter Gaza for our conference on Siege and Mental Health meant we began meeting today in Ramallah instead, with a videoconference Internet link between the two sites read more
Protest at Gaza’s Erez Crossing
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 26th 2008
Moving Us Away from Fence We Were Pounding On - Noisy Demonstration Ended so Gazans Could Enter read more
GCMHP conference details
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 26th 2008
The Gaza Community Mental Health Program now has the full schedule and other details for tomorrow’s conference, Siege and Mental Health. In a couple of hours, though, we first take a bus from Ramallah to Gaza’s Erez checkpoint, where we read more
City Inn Morning
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 26th 2008
Two years ago I stayed at Ramallah’s City Inn Palace, and was glad the conference was putting us up in what i thought was the same place, a convenient walk from downtown. But when I showed up last evening after my very long travel day — a read more
Ramallah today, Gaza gate tomorrow, side trip to Armageddon
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 25th 2008
After a very long day coming south from Israel’s north — car, sherut (shared or “service” taxi), bus, and taxi — I finally got to my hotel in Ramallah, where I’ll stay for the next four days during the Siege and Me read more
Israel North
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 24th 2008
It didn’t take long. Once I got to Israel on Monday, things got so busy I had no time to sit and write. A day or so feeling sick didn’t help, and I’m still pretty worn out. I’m looking forward to getting to Ramallah tomorrow, where it looks l read more
Harsh Words: Debating the Middle East Conflict on the Streets of…
Currents | October 22nd 2008 by jnarvey
I came across a protest against the Israeli “apartheid regime” and the BC liquor store’s sale of wines produced on the Golan heights in downtown Vancouver on the weekend. The protesters appeared to be the usual mix of starry-eyed bu read more
Three Rides, Amman to Nazareth
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 20th 2008
I caused some minor confusion early this morning when I told the taxi driver who stopped near my hotel to take me to Amman’s Seventh Circle. He looked at my luggage, asked where I was going. When I said to take the bus to Nazareth, he seemed to read more
Palestine in Amman
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 18th 2008
From what I can tell, what’s now Jordan has always had shifting connections and overlap with what’s now Israel, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Often it’s been tied to some invader - the Roman ruins I photographed yesterday are one sign. Then, a read more
Israel Denies Permits to Attend Gaza Conference
Dennis Fox's Weblog | October 17th 2008
This just in from the Gaza conference organizers. Doesn’t look good: Walls Triumph Over Bridges Dear Participants, We are writing to update you on the most recent developments regarding the 5th International Conference, “Siege and Menta read more
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