Pedagogy of occupation

I found myself forced to do this horrible mission of going to the Ministry of Interior in Jerusalem. Of course, it is in East Jerusalem. Regarding services, the east and west parts, as well as terminology, have become vital. The unification term becomes a pure fragmentation, segregation, And humiliation. I cursed my daughter for making me go through this from the early morning hours. I was faced with a long line that reached the beginning of the gate of this ghetto. Considering that we are celebrating Women’s Day, I could not miss out on the many messages. Veiled women. Crowds of women.More veils in all ages and styles. Stirring women. Pushing women. Screaming women. Disabled women. All the women are trying to force Inside to speed the entrance to a ghetto-like compound controlled by two screaming Hebrew soldiers and the nonspeaking Hebrew women.

Oppression can be a systematic tool for dehumanizing. These soldiers are standing there enjoying every developed trait of sadism and applying it to the crowd. Somebody trained him. This is a herd. At some point, the herd of the group unifies with the feeling and becomes part of this system. They behave like animals that gradually explode their suppressed wildness into a domestic flock of obedient sheep.

At that moment, a unified feeling of rage internalizes against all: the oppressor and the oppressed. The mean soldier keeps awakening my sensations of organizing my anger with each scream he makes. “Stand in two rows so that I can see the gate.”

Rage, anger, anxiety, disgust … From all .. Women and soldiers … I want to leave this place of a making hell… I could kill my daughter for making me go through this … Who needs to travel…