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When people find outI was kidnapped in GazaThey may wonder,Why is he an activist for Palestine? What they did to meBears no comparison to what we do to them.Deprive them of dignity, humanityUntil some resortTo acts of sheer desperation. Who is being kidnapped?And who is the kidnapper? 2. A Country So Small They kidnapped meThinking […]
25.3.2024 02:15Three Short Poems I Composed While Laying Awake During the NightThe current War on Gaza is the most extreme, immoral form of collective punishment ever imposed by Israel on the people of Gaza. In the fall of 2005, Marga and I, together with everyone else living in Gaza at that time, were subjected to another version of this war crime: Israeli fighter jets flying low […]
24.3.2024 20:11Collective Punishment“What took you so long?” The USCIS officer curiously looks up from the green card issued to me in 1993. “Almost 30 years!” I have sworn to tell the truth in the naturalization interview, answered questions, and passed the civics test. “I had to think about it,” I confess.
23.3.2024 22:12Becoming an AmericanI’m looking for a publisher for my novel In the Hands of the Other. The story takes place in Gaza in 2005-6. It is based in reality, but has an imaginative twist. Henry accepts the job of director of an international school in Gaza. A few months into the school year, he is kidnapped by […]
19.3.2024 20:39Book PitchRustling leaves of alder, fir and cedar; fern and salal dominating the underbrush. Muted light filters through the overcast sky. An owl’s screech commits a friend to my memory of the dead. John, whose hands knew wood and how to prepare food, who made kindness the wings of an eagle soaring high.
12.3.2024 22:18John