Palestine: a journal of everyday occupation

It’s very easy to be an armchair revolutionary. It’s very easy to judge the actions of others without understanding their experience. It’s very easy to expect a situation elsewhere to fit one’s own expectations.

I started yesterday with cautious hope. If any day would bring Egyptians out en masse, this would be it. Since the morning, I watched images beamed from Al Jazeera. Central Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other towns and cities, all teeming with many thousands of people all with one message: Mubarak out. After Tunisia, for the [...]