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I am a writer and a journalist. I like conversations and whispers, not much images but suggestions, hints, the perception and the guess more than the statement of a truth.
My friends define me as a cultural relativist. I don't feel myself as "belonging". Freelance catholic, freelance anarchist but definitely a humanist struggling for dialog and for meaningfull encounters.
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12:01am
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I am reading for the second time Kate Mosse's excellent book Labyrinth, a book about the Cathars, a Christian sect, called heretic for Rome and burned on the pyre in thousands, the first Crusade called against Christians in European soil. The crusaders (the same people who sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, also a Christian empire) acted in a barbaric way and burned alive women and children, destroyed castles and villages. It was Christian fundamentalism of the worst kind. The book is about the search for the Grail and the beginning of the Inquisition. The year was 1293. I get angry, upset and sad with the Catholic Church from that time, more concerned with temporal power and with ortodoxy and submission than with the unconditional love Jesus predicated, with the King of France and all these greedy people who destroyed the Occitan culture, one of the most vital and lovely cultures in Europe. The Cathars didn't believe in churches or in priests or in icons, they believed in solidarity and in cooperation, on each one's right to find it's own way to redemption. Of course they had to be destroyed...Read more on my site Crusading.se, crusading.se [crusading.se] [crusading.se]
More about me in an article in the magazine
Counterpunch,
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May 11, 11:57pm
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We are leaving Bethlehem, the driver says : "remember this way, this is an historical moment. We are driving for a road as old as 3000 years, possibily the same road the prophet Abraham walked or rode a donkey to Hebron. This way is going to be gone next month. The Israeli wall is going to swallow it, the olivetrees, belonging to Christian palestine families, are going to be confiscated and upprooted. Later they are going to be replanted in Israel, bought by churches or people wanting to make Israel greener."
We pass a monastery owned by the Catholic order Salesians. They make an excellent wine, Cremisan. The wall is going to isolate them completely. The Vatican protested and now Israel is doing a special way only for them, an island in the middle of the wall, which is going to circunvalate Bethlehem for four sides, with three gates and checkpoints.
The West Bank is going to be as Gaza, an open air prison with Israel as gatekeeper.
We asked experts if the wall is about security, the lutheran priest who is our guide smiles sadly and say yes, a bit is about security, security is the golden calv where Israel dances around. But mostly it's abut land and water grab. If the wall followed the borders of Israel in 1967, the green line, the Palestinian should accept it. But now the wall digs itself in the fertile lands and the aquifers of Palestine, taking lands and wells which are often the only sustain a family have.
Some Israeli politician said once : "The Palestinian are not a problem. Let make their lives so miserable they don't have any other alternative than to leave."
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May 11, 2:33pm
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Hebron. The tomb of the Patriarchs (and the Matriarch, of course, Abraham's wife is also buried here), split in two, on one side the Jewish worshippers, on the other side, the Moslems shrine.
It was before a mosque, Ibrahimi mosque, Islam's third most holy place, after Mecca and Jerusalem. On the February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a well-known leader of Jewish extremist Kach group, entered Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank town of Al-Khalil and emptied two clips of a machinegun into Muslim worshippers during the dawn prayer, killing at least 50 people and injuring 200 others.
Since this day the mosque was separated. Ibrahimi is the Jewish and Christian Abraham. Our monotheistic religions are also called Abrhamic religions since we acknowledge the same origin.
In Hebron 500 Jewish settlers, protected by 4000 Israeli soldiers, harass 60000 Palestines. The Old City of Hebron, one of the oldest cities in the world, is today a ghost city where settlers run with weapons on their hands and the few Palestinian bystanders can't mvoe freely. We pass through the checkpoints, cameras and metal detectors search our luggage. After hours of negotiations and dealings we are allowed to go into the Ibrahimi mosque and see the beautiful roof and the tiles from the Ottoman time. We borrow heavy headcovers to cover our heads and are allowed in the place where the remains of Abraham and his family are buried.
Tomorrow are we going to visit the tomb of Jesus, today we visited the tomb of Rachel, in Bethlehem. In the Holy Land, Palestine, the alive fight for the tombs.
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May 8, 9:59pm
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First night in Ramallah. So many memories. Cecilia and me, December 2000, alone in the house we borrowed from Fatin. We heard the sound of the Apache helicopters flying menacing near us, as birds of prey, dark, lethal.
I go to the restaurang in the basement of the hotel. People smoke narguile, the nice waterpipe with scented tobacco.
I can't resist the temptation and ask the young waiter for one. He offers me the ladie's option, apple, madame, or cherry?
I surprise him asking for nanah, mynt. He smiles in silent complicity, ah, I see, a connaisseur.
I ask for a Taybee, the dark one, please. I should love to have L. wiht me now. She loves beer, she should be delighted with Taybee's dark taste, pungent and sweet at the same time.
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May 8, 10:27am
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For two days I have lived among literature and writers, a kind of own universe with it's own laws and rules. Many of the writers participating in this Palestine Literature Festival, palestinelitfest.org [palestinelitfest.org] , are well known writers, but their fame and prestige are not the reasons they have been invited. They are been invited because they are committed to the cause of the literature, the borderless creation where fiction and reality merges and where Hamlet, Ali Baba and Madame Bovary sit at the same table.
We were welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of young students at Birzeit University, the place where the Palestine young intelligentsia is trained. They chose to have workshops about literature and politics, how to avoid them when you are in a country where a part celebrated their victory over the other part. They were conmemorating the Nakbah, the moment where the Palestines were erased from the history, where villages which have been inhabited for thousands of years became dust. We were speaking of memories today and this country have mixed memories, a part of them remember histories of pogroms and extermination, the other remember histories of displacement and obliteration.
The saddest is they share the same history and they should acknowledge each other as the mirror of the other one.
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May 6, 9:19am
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I am in Amman, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Amman has been inhabited since Antiquity and ruins from Rome, Greece and other empires are today tourist attractions. The pink city of Petra, once the nave of a wealthy empire based on caravans and transport of goods is one of the most beautiful abandoned cities in the world, part of the Humanity's cultural common heritage.
But Jordan bleeds today. The water is scarce and the migthy neighboor Israel want the sole control over the Jordan acquifer, an important reserve of fresh water. Israel's agriculture is based on the intense watering of crops and fruits, yes, the desert in Israel has become a garden, but to an extrem cost, almost all the water of the region is being directed to the Israeli agriculture.
The water wars predicted by Vandana Shiva are shown here. The war between Israel and Libanon have much to do with the Israeli needs of new sources of water. And Israel want to keep the control over the future state of Palestine's water resources.
Today nobody can dig a well in Palestine without asking the occupier Israel for a permit. Water is a commodity here and we tourists all drink mineral bottled water from Italy or France here.
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May 6, 9:18am
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Ekopolitan is the common work of my friend Mats Renvall and me. We want to create a green community of committed people wanting changes in their lives. Ecology, green lifestyle, fair trade, how to invest in green and ethical stocks, etc. Please, contribute to us making reviews, sending the link to friends and giving us input about the design and the content!
The site is now in Swedish and English, we are going to switch to English as soon we have interesting material!
We accept photo and text material, share with us your "green stuff".
Ana and Mats
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK AND SHARE WITH US YOUR GREEN IDEAS AND THOUGHTS! TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE CHANGES AND LIVE IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY!
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May 6, 2:07am
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First breakfast in Amman. Had forgotten how wonderful pitabread with new harvested olivoil and zhatar taste!! Zhatar is a herb blend based on thym, pungent and tasty, it mixes so well with the hummus and the olivoil!
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I am happy being part of it!
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May 5, 12:02pm
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Amman. One of the oldest cities on the world. Inhabited since Rome was young. Today a busy metropolis in the middle of the desert. As soon as the plane landed I breathed the warm air of the desert and I felt at home. Surely in some ancient time I was a Crusade, templar or monk, and strode around here, the place in the earth where I feel a strong link with, a belonging.
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May 4, 9:43pm
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Friends and casual visitors! Be patient! Travelling to the Middle East today, to meet writers, make bridges, to read my own poetry and breath the air of desert. Petra, Amman, I promess to blog and to take pictures! But I can't garantee a great periodicity!
Send me good vibes! (And in the meanwhile check my blog's older pages, worth a visit, and don't forget Ekopolitan, my green site, ekopolitan.com [ekopolitan.com]
Ana
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