![]() It is surrounded with walls and armed guards. It’s the largest settlement in the West Bank. I learned, very quickly, that Abu Dis is about a mile or two from Ma’ale Adumim, an Israeli settlement. Then, in the middle of the night, I arrived at the Tel-Aviv airport, slipped into an Arab taxi, crossed the threshold into the West Bank having never seen Israel by day, and into a tiny dormitory in the village of Abu Dis, just on the other side of the massive Apartheid wall on the outskirts of Jerusalem. I learned a tiny bit of Arabic (the wrong dialect) and familiarized myself with the basics of the conflict with Israel. So despite my best efforts, I arrived very much tainted with ignorance and unchallenged prejudices. I did as much research as I could before moving there, but was given very little lead-time. I had very little familiarity with Islam. ![]() I had never been to the middle-east before. I moved to Palestine in 2018 having never been there before. ![]()
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