



In recent days, a miracle took place, a kind of magic took control of me. Something that I knew, but which remained foreign, the setting of the biological clock. OK laugh.. Today I beat my own record waking up at 7:20, I did not even dare get out of bed, fearing to wake Sandra who I share the room with. So I looked at my watch, stared at the hands, and daydreamt, counting the seconds away. Too many things have happened to detail, so I'll keep the essential knowing that my hatred began with the colonization. Since I moved in my new home, my work at the center has accelerated considerably. Even went a little too fast. I wanted to start the photo workshops before even having identified a program. Actually I got a little either and I put the challenge of setting up the workshops which I think since 3 months, I got the wrong role of the volunteer who does not know what to do and that he is waiting casts missions by mail if possible, to avoid physical confrontation with the staff of the centre, which is testing you on the first few weeks. After a few days of terrible doubt I ended up with strength reconsider my presence here. Showing and I did not come for a period of observation or because of a lot of guilt against the oppressed. The auspicious continuity of things here is a very special art. For lovers of anarchy, know that this requires an immeasurable amount of energy and patience without limit. Because so many good laws of nature are verified and that the right birthright works, in the country of Laws (haha) in Palestine, in any case, they do not all manage to gain respect. Often unpleasant surprises, the enemy of common sense, come despite my vigilance, crashed into my back like so many small darts. This will require great skill to remove them, one by one, well sure. The workshops have well and truly begun. Far from the eyes of paternalistic Gobelins that ignores my emails and my revival partnership. No doubt the big boss of the chamber of commerce there is a Jew. We practice the teaching of digital photography. For the moment the premises of the dark room is being cleaned and foremost, because the purpose of this year and 2009 for the center is to train young people to a professional reality. Today, the media are much less present, and influential in Palestine cumbersome than anywhere else in the world and the younger generation (52% of the Palestinian population is under 18 years). The all-digital, pollution from the picture, Beigbedisme does not exist. We must therefore find a way to understand what a small world that the picture is not a game, that it has a cost, a heavy cost and that our presence here is justified by means other than Western guilt. Especially for black sheep like me, who have neither god nor master. I do not know what to say. I can already say that all Tuesdays and Saturdays (please note that the week begins on Sunday after shabat for Jews and Friday for muslims) I go to AIC The alternative information center of Bethlehem. They are planning documentaries often very sharp and often very hard to swallow : children stone throwers in prison, refugees from Somalia and Sudan who die in the streets of Tel Aviv, numbers, images, tears, bloody beatings. An extensive programme hiding and employs all its capabilities, as thin as they may to disseminate and publicize THE truths about the conflict with the twin allures of apartheid. This place made me meet no harm in the world, Eucuméniques who monitor abuses at checkpoints, instits who try to keep the first Arabic language in schools before the English, alcoholics bureaucrats, disappointed, bored, hopeful. For me it has helped me keep an ounce of anger deep enough, not to yield to the mode of renunciation commitments. Because as I said one evening where we wanted to help bring Israeli photographer at the centre, I am not going to pretend to be coming to me because they offered a super job well paid. Not. I came advocating a peace that is the meeting and the acceptance of the facts. The Israelis are there. Certainly it is time to stop the occupation but also to stop believing that they are going to go. Both idea to walk on his feet without thinking that they are able to do with it. I can not boycott Israel. I can not endorse Islam today. Concepts that will not in the sense of events for sure, and it often cost me admonitions and vilification. Yet I do not hand over to the militant desire to be blind. Because if begins again, this conflict is a monster of inconsistencies and mythologies. The problem of the majority of Arabs it's just that they are Muslims, and today the crippling it very seriously. To talk about more things cool, yesterday I went on a field at Bet Sahour on the outskirts of Bethlehem where a combination handles recreating terraces against the descent of land in the valley. With aim to replant olive trees for the land that ultimately cares for its own. It's a bit what we do all here. Ensure that after our departure the elements are autonomous (colony colony nor nor nor…). Just to see how the locals deal with their land, I do not bode well. We were close to a road that s'élançait outside the city, on the edge of it, in the desert campaign of the last terraced houses. And on the edge of the road increased tons of rubble and waste. A very sad observation that is probably the same in 70% of the world's countries. But I do not think I will another if I had been elsewhere. The environment is since I kid, something that hurts me and I can not much. For some, and it's probably very true, very close and long awaited green revolution, will be the last engine of rich countries to remain dominant in poor countries. And worse is all. But as I said I say cool things I wanted to draw clear that the loose soil and take (finally) the sun was so happy. I landscape with landscapes. Last Wednesday I went to the French Cinematheque in Jerusalem, where the Queen Vale brings me a coup d'consular invitation. There were screened the documentary hyper boring but very moving Alain Fleischer (the director of Fresnoy) on the lives of my life Jean Luc Godard. Poor Godard who has not and will not be Jewish. Never. I made engage on these entrefaits RTC by the director of Jerusalem Romain Gary (french cultural center) to take some photos, although not paid for sure (have you forgotten that the practice of photographer is an act not recognised and therefore volunteer) the small compact Vale, and I not be not my camera everywhere, especially when I go to dinner (yes because I have also been invited to dinner with the Consul General and the whole clique) official asked where I on cardboard. Http://www.forumdesimages.fr/fr/alacarte/htm/ACTUALITE/FLEISCHER.htm Http://lefresnoy.net/ So I made a little known, these gentlemen notables, it was very well eaten however, I love my dinner. Apart from that he still snowed in during my first picture was a real fiasco because when it snows it's like in Montpellier, nobody is going to work. So I stayed with Larry in the pipeline, trépignant. I move for a go-around in time with young people after the meeting because, brothel, it is not because the courses are free of the need to play it too free either. I am not yet gone look around, I do not have the time, money. Maybe I go to Ramallah, soon, it seems that this is a very beautiful city, and I have to find a store that sells all software in the world cracked 15 SIL (3 euros). For the rest I will do my tourist with Pierre who is very lucky to arrive next Thursday on the first day the hottest planned 2008 in Jerusalem. To all those who wished to visit the area, welcome, the country is beautiful and wonderful light. Israel is on the other side of the wall, it will not see us. | ||
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