12/24/2023 0 Comments State of survival basel hero![]() ![]() Unlike most interactions between people meeting for the first time, this one involved almost no pleasantries. ![]() Standing behind a desk in the middle of the entrance room was a thin man with thick glasses, somewhere in his mid-twenties. We drove to what looked like a residential home, but when we entered I realized it had been transformed into a youth center. You should meet him… come, he’s expecting us.” Into his car we went, up the hill through Beit Jala and past the Israeli military base and checkpoint known as the “ DCO” and into the village of al-Walajah. It was the end of a workday when a friend and colleague, said to me “I have a cousin who is interested in political things like you. It couldn’t have been more than a few weeks after I had started a new role with a refugee rights organization in Bethlehem. Khaled Oudatallah in a eulogy for Basel al-Araj in al-Walajah, Ma1 Basel al-Araj, I Have Found My Answers, (Bisan, 2018), 388. If you are true, you will be revolutionaries and resistance fighters. Nor did he call on us to be revolutionaries. Basel did not call on us to be resistance fighters. ![]()
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