the human province

I went to Tel Aviv last night for a protest againt the war in Lebanon. There was a group of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners protesting the war and a group of Israelis protesting the protest. The first group was holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English calling for an end to the war and to the occuptation. The others were holding signs with slogans like "Let the Army win" and "All terrorists are Muslim." Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayen also spoke at the protest. She was initially applauded when she said that the war should stop, but was then booed when she said that the war had started out as a "just war."

The police were sometimes violent and at one point beat up a Palestinian guy. There were five policemen against a single guy, whose head they repeatedly smashed onto a car hood. Israeli spectators were screaming that he was just a dirty Arab and deserved to be "sent to Gaza to be killed."

I spoke to a young Israeli woman whose parents were from Kazakhstan. She was against the war but stayed at the edges of the protest, because she felt a little hypocritical. AS it turns out, she'll be starting her military service in a couple of months. As a woman, she won't be sent to Lebanon or Gaza, but she still feels guilty. When I reminded her that it was compulsory for all Israelis, she told me that as a woman, it's fairly easy to get out of, but for reasons that she was unsure of, she didn't.

After the protest, we had dinner in the area and then came back to Jerusalem and took a stroll in the western part of the city. I was shocked to see young Israeli men out for a night on the town with their friends or girlfriends carrying automatic weapons and spare ammunition. They were not soldiers and were not in any sort of uniform. They brought their weapons into the bars and restaurants, sometimes when the streets were especially crowded, you might have the muzzle of an M-16 bump your leg as you wade through the scantily clad human masses. I am used to seeing civilians with guns and soldiers and policemen, but I was taken aback at the amount of young Israelis armed to the teeth in the West Jerusalem equivalent of Times Square or the Bastille.

I asked a policewoman about it this morning in the old city, and she told me that they were probably soldiers, but when she left, I was called back to the shopfront by some Palestinians. They asked me if the armed youth were wearing big watches or if they were wearing yarmukles.

I went to Tel Aviv last night for a protest againt the war in Lebanon. There was a group of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners protesting the war and a group of Israelis protesting the protest. The first group was holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English calling for an end to the war and to the occuptation. The others were holding signs with slogans like "Let the Army win" and "All terrorists are Muslim." Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayen also spoke at the protest. She was initially applauded when she said that the war should stop, but was then booed when she said that the war had started out as a "just war."

The police were sometimes violent and at one point beat up a Palestinian guy. There were five policemen against a single guy, whose head they repeatedly smashed onto a car hood. Israeli spectators were screaming that he was just a dirty Arab and deserved to be "sent to Gaza to be killed."

I spoke to a young Israeli woman whose parents were from Kazakhstan. She was against the war but stayed at the edges of the protest, because she felt a little hypocritical. AS it turns out, she'll be starting her military service in a couple of months. As a woman, she won't be sent to Lebanon or Gaza, but she still feels guilty. When I reminded her that it was compulsory for all Israelis, she told me that as a woman, it's fairly easy to get out of, but for reasons that she was unsure of, she didn't.

After the protest, we had dinner in the area and then came back to Jerusalem and took a stroll in the western part of the city. I was shocked to see young Israeli men out for a night on the town with their friends or girlfriends carrying automatic weapons and spare ammunition. They were not soldiers and were not in any sort of uniform. They brought their weapons into the bars and restaurants, sometimes when the streets were especially crowded, you might have the muzzle of an M-16 bump your leg as you wade through the scantily clad human masses. I am used to seeing civilians with guns and soldiers and policemen, but I was taken aback at the amount of young Israelis armed to the teeth in the West Jerusalem equivalent of Times Square or the Bastille.

I asked a policewoman about it this morning in the old city, and she told me that they were probably soldiers, but when she left, I was called back to the shopfront by some Palestinians. They asked me if the armed youth were wearing big watches or if they were wearing yarmukles.

I went to Tel Aviv last night for a protest againt the war in Lebanon. There was a group of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners protesting the war and a group of Israelis protesting the protest. The first group was holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English calling for an end to the war and to the occuptation. The others were holding signs with slogans like "Let the Army win" and "All terrorists are Muslim." Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayen also spoke at the protest. She was initially applauded when she said that the war should stop, but was then booed when she said that the war had started out as a "just war."

The police were sometimes violent and at one point beat up a Palestinian guy. There were five policemen against a single guy, whose head they repeatedly smashed onto a car hood. Israeli spectators were screaming that he was just a dirty Arab and deserved to be "sent to Gaza to be killed."

I spoke to a young Israeli woman whose parents were from Kazakhstan. She was against the war but stayed at the edges of the protest, because she felt a little hypocritical. AS it turns out, she'll be starting her military service in a couple of months. As a woman, she won't be sent to Lebanon or Gaza, but she still feels guilty. When I reminded her that it was compulsory for all Israelis, she told me that as a woman, it's fairly easy to get out of, but for reasons that she was unsure of, she didn't.

After the protest, we had dinner in the area and then came back to Jerusalem and took a stroll in the western part of the city. I was shocked to see young Israeli men out for a night on the town with their friends or girlfriends carrying automatic weapons and spare ammunition. They were not soldiers and were not in any sort of uniform. They brought their weapons into the bars and restaurants, sometimes when the streets were especially crowded, you might have the muzzle of an M-16 bump your leg as you wade through the scantily clad human masses. I am used to seeing civilians with guns and soldiers and policemen, but I was taken aback at the amount of young Israelis armed to the teeth in the West Jerusalem equivalent of Times Square or the Bastille.

I asked a policewoman about it this morning in the old city, and she told me that they were probably soldiers, but when she left, I was called back to the shopfront by some Palestinians. They asked me if the armed youth were wearing big watches or if they were wearing yarmukles.

I went to Tel Aviv last night for a protest againt the war in Lebanon. There was a group of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners protesting the war and a group of Israelis protesting the protest. The first group was holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English calling for an end to the war and to the occuptation. The others were holding signs with slogans like "Let the Army win" and "All terrorists are Muslim." Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayen also spoke at the protest. She was initially applauded when she said that the war should stop, but was then booed when she said that the war had started out as a "just war."

The police were sometimes violent and at one point beat up a Palestinian guy. There were five policemen against a single guy, whose head they repeatedly smashed onto a car hood. Israeli spectators were screaming that he was just a dirty Arab and deserved to be "sent to Gaza to be killed."

I spoke to a young Israeli woman whose parents were from Kazakhstan. She was against the war but stayed at the edges of the protest, because she felt a little hypocritical. AS it turns out, she'll be starting her military service in a couple of months. As a woman, she won't be sent to Lebanon or Gaza, but she still feels guilty. When I reminded her that it was compulsory for all Israelis, she told me that as a woman, it's fairly easy to get out of, but for reasons that she was unsure of, she didn't.

After the protest, we had dinner in the area and then came back to Jerusalem and took a stroll in the western part of the city. I was shocked to see young Israeli men out for a night on the town with their friends or girlfriends carrying automatic weapons and spare ammunition. They were not soldiers and were not in any sort of uniform. They brought their weapons into the bars and restaurants, sometimes when the streets were especially crowded, you might have the muzzle of an M-16 bump your leg as you wade through the scantily clad human masses. I am used to seeing civilians with guns and soldiers and policemen, but I was taken aback at the amount of young Israelis armed to the teeth in the West Jerusalem equivalent of Times Square or the Bastille.

I asked a policewoman about it this morning in the old city, and she told me that they were probably soldiers, but when she left, I was called back to the shopfront by some Palestinians. They asked me if the armed youth were wearing big watches or if they were wearing yarmukles.

I went to Tel Aviv last night for a protest againt the war in Lebanon. There was a group of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners protesting the war and a group of Israelis protesting the protest. The first group was holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English calling for an end to the war and to the occuptation. The others were holding signs with slogans like "Let the Army win" and "All terrorists are Muslim." Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayen also spoke at the protest. She was initially applauded when she said that the war should stop, but was then booed when she said that the war had started out as a "just war."

The police were sometimes violent and at one point beat up a Palestinian guy. There were five policemen against a single guy, whose head they repeatedly smashed onto a car hood. Israeli spectators were screaming that he was just a dirty Arab and deserved to be "sent to Gaza to be killed."

I spoke to a young Israeli woman whose parents were from Kazakhstan. She was against the war but stayed at the edges of the protest, because she felt a little hypocritical. AS it turns out, she'll be starting her military service in a couple of months. As a woman, she won't be sent to Lebanon or Gaza, but she still feels guilty. When I reminded her that it was compulsory for all Israelis, she told me that as a woman, it's fairly easy to get out of, but for reasons that she was unsure of, she didn't.

After the protest, we had dinner in the area and then came back to Jerusalem and took a stroll in the western part of the city. I was shocked to see young Israeli men out for a night on the town with their friends or girlfriends carrying automatic weapons and spare ammunition. They were not soldiers and were not in any sort of uniform. They brought their weapons into the bars and restaurants, sometimes when the streets were especially crowded, you might have the muzzle of an M-16 bump your leg as you wade through the scantily clad human masses. I am used to seeing civilians with guns and soldiers and policemen, but I was taken aback at the amount of young Israelis armed to the teeth in the West Jerusalem equivalent of Times Square or the Bastille.

I asked a policewoman about it this morning in the old city, and she told me that they were probably soldiers, but when she left, I was called back to the shopfront by some Palestinians. They asked me if the armed youth were wearing big watches or if they were wearing yarmukles.

I went to Tel Aviv last night for a protest againt the war in Lebanon. There was a group of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners protesting the war and a group of Israelis protesting the protest. The first group was holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English calling for an end to the war and to the occuptation. The others were holding signs with slogans like "Let the Army win" and "All terrorists are Muslim." Yael Dayan, the daughter of Moshe Dayen also spoke at the protest. She was initially applauded when she said that the war should stop, but was then booed when she said that the war had started out as a "just war."

The police were sometimes violent and at one point beat up a Palestinian guy. There were five policemen against a single guy, whose head they repeatedly smashed onto a car hood. Israeli spectators were screaming that he was just a dirty Arab and deserved to be "sent to Gaza to be killed."

I spoke to a young Israeli woman whose parents were from Kazakhstan. She was against the war but stayed at the edges of the protest, because she felt a little hypocritical. AS it turns out, she'll be starting her military service in a couple of months. As a woman, she won't be sent to Lebanon or Gaza, but she still feels guilty. When I reminded her that it was compulsory for all Israelis, she told me that as a woman, it's fairly easy to get out of, but for reasons that she was unsure of, she didn't.

After the protest, we had dinner in the area and then came back to Jerusalem and took a stroll in the western part of the city. I was shocked to see young Israeli men out for a night on the town with their friends or girlfriends carrying automatic weapons and spare ammunition. They were not soldiers and were not in any sort of uniform. They brought their weapons into the bars and restaurants, sometimes when the streets were especially crowded, you might have the muzzle of an M-16 bump your leg as you wade through the scantily clad human masses. I am used to seeing civilians with guns and soldiers and policemen, but I was taken aback at the amount of young Israelis armed to the teeth in the West Jerusalem equivalent of Times Square or the Bastille.

I asked a policewoman about it this morning in the old city, and she told me that they were probably soldiers, but when she left, I was called back to the shopfront by some Palestinians. They asked me if the armed youth were wearing big watches or if they were wearing yarmukles.