Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation Book

I've stayed up until 3 am for the last two nights reading this book and i imagine i will again tonight to finish it. it takes up where amira hass' "drinknig from the sea of gaza" left off, but looks at all of occupied-palestine instead of just Gaza. It is about how bureaucracy kills individuals and communities and the banaltity of laws and their ferocious power, and about the innability of the UN and human rights groups to do anything but record and amerliorate the actual evils of zionist-settler actions and policies.

This books makes me angry and frustrated and dejected, but makes me also want to fight and reinforces that this is a colonial struggle, that laws are what are killing palestinians and that we need to look towards struggle.

He's also an English scholar and by coincidence I just read an article he wrote on Sir Walter Scott's "Waverley", a book I am currently writing on. I wrote him a long email telling him all this. The magic of coincidence.