UPDATE: Please also read this post, about the treatment of Palestinian Jerusalemites by Israel’s police. This week, Israel marks Jerusalem Day, a day intended as an annual celebration of the city’s 1967 reunification. In recognition of that day (which falls this year on June 1), I re-post the following, a piece I first wrote in [...]
All posts for the month May, 2011
On undivided and eternal Jerusalem.
Posted by emilylhauser on May 31, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/undivided-and-eternal-jerusalem/
Memorial Day – The loss of strangers.
Please also be sure to take a peek at my earlier post, where I also link to a really wonderful essay about the particular case of young veterans grappling with this nation’s holiday in memory of their fallen brothers and sisters in arms. Listening to NPR as I stood cooking the holiday meal for my [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 30, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/memorial-day-the-loss-of-strangers/
Housekeeping: Memorial Day, book recommendations, archiving, and adding links.
As I’ve mentioned on the last several Fridays, I’ve been writing a regular book column for the Americans for Peace Now blog. I decided it would be a good idea to create a dedicated archive for those posts, and so I have. Just over there to your right, under “Pages” – Reading the Conflict: An [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 30, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/housekeeping-memorial-day-book-recommendations-archiving-and-adding-links/
Yup – Hamas is a terrorist organization. Now what?
Please note update, below. I’m frequently asked about Hamas with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and this past week has certainly been no exception. The questions take many forms, but they tend to boil down to this very reasonable query: “Hamas is a terrorist organization. How do you make peace with a terrorist organization?” [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 27, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/hamas-terrorists-peace-process/
Reading the conflict – The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
Every Friday, I post a book recommendation on the Americans for Peace Now blog.Soon after 1967′s Six Day War, Israel annexed the Palestinian parts of Jerusalem, extending Israeli law over all the city’s inhabitants. In subsequent years, it became a standard part of the Israeli narrative that Jerusalem was unified that day, and that the [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 27, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/reading-the-conflict-the-hour-of-sunlight-one-palestinians-journey-from-prisoner-to-peacemaker/
Do you know the muffin man? A recipe.
Once upon a time, I had a little boy who was a picky eater. Today, that boy (aka: the boy) has achieved a kind of peace with food that renders him not that different from your average picky 6th grader, but between the ages of about 1 and 8, he was… severely limited. He was, [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 26, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/muffin-recipe-picky-eater/
Good stuff: But will Pampers pay for the extra college costs?
The husband and I have exactly the right amount of kids for us: Two. The two best, smartest, funniest, sweetest kids on the planet — kids who were unfailingly polite at the hairdresser’s today as they they got their hair cut, and reduced each other to helpless laughter tonight as we all played a board [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 25, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/good-stuff-but-will-pampers-pay-for-the-extra-college-costs/
Debunking a very little bit of Netanyahu’s speech before Congress.
Right then. Given my conquest of all the foreign airwaves — the BBC on Friday, Russia Today this morning — on matters Israel/Palestine, Obama and Netanyahu, I have been feeling a certain moral obligation to blog about Bibi’s speech before Congress today. But I have finally just read it (he was delivering the speech as [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 24, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/debunking-netanyahu-congress/
Israel, Palestine, Obama, Netanyahu, & me – on Russian TV.
Hey there! I was on the tee-vee! In Russia! The cameraman told me I “look great on camera” (I’m not so sure — in that first moment, I look rather like a moron, and who knew that I do that weird “did she have a stroke?” thing with my mouth when I’m listening to someone? [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 24, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/emily-hauser-obama-netanyahu-israel-palestine-russian-tv/
This is going on your permanent record.
Once upon a time, I was in high school. I was young, of course, but, for a variety of reasons, not as young as many of my peers, and there is much about the then-me that’s very much still in evidence today. Upon meeting someone new, I still want to ask them what music they [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on May 23, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/this-is-going-on-your-permanent-record/
