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50 years after the Six-Day War – Writers confront the Occupation (7)

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Published: 17 June 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

A series – essays published individually and collected in Kingdom of Olives and Ash, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, published May 2017 by Harper Collins.

Bloated time and the death of meaning – Ala Helehel – +972 Magazine 14.06.17
‘The occupation deprives you of your humanity by depriving you of the ability to control time… The occupation is a machine: a complex, octopus-like regime that functions to exhaust those who are subject to it. It is a regime based on repression under the cover of administrative legitimacy…’

Related: Writers confront the Occupation –  (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6)

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