Stromata

Palm Plaza at night

Today is all rush ... last minute attempt to finish all my work, meetings, signing documents ... before my operation tomorrow morning. But the more I seem to complete, the more work arrive ... till I finally decided enough is enough, I was going home. Then once home, another series of work started ... fax lines that don't function, orders and payments ... I walked out of the office and into my room. The work will never end, people's demands will never stop ... no one will die if work is not finished. I need time for myself and to prepare for tomorrow.

Night police

I hope to take a week off to rest after the operation ... and then almost immediately I'll have lectures at the university. Good thing I prepared the reading materials and have sent them out to the students to prepare.

The uproar over the sale of an arab house to rightwing jewish settlers have blown out into headlines in all arab newspapers, local and regional. Apparently things are more serious than I first thought ... it wasn't simply a small pharmacy with upstairs rooms that were bought by the settlers ... it was the property of the Joudeh family ... an illustrious arab dynasty from the Crusader period who hold the keys of the Holy Sepulchre. Arabs are shocked that such an ancient and esteemed family would sell their property to israelis. Well things are not as simple as that. They sought the help of a middleman who sold it to some Caribbean company which ... surprise ... was owned by rightwing jewish settlers. Anyway the storm is still brewing and we'll see what'll happen next.   https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-news-of-jews-taking-over-e-jlm-house-spur-palestinian-media-uproar-1.6535139

Meantime Gaza is getting some respite when Israel allowed fuel to enter Gaza ... which the Palestinian Authority is against. Part of the Israeli blockade is actually Palestinian blockade since they sanctioned the Israelis to stop fuel, medicine, food and other essentials into Gaza in order to force the ruling Hamas party to vanquish power. Like I once said, the arabs worse enemies are themselves.  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/defying-abbas-israel-allows-qatari-funded-fuel-into-gaza-strip-1.6545230