{"id":8377,"date":"2022-05-15T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:40:12","slug":"palestinian-and-israeli-excerpt-from-haifa-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/palestinian-and-israeli-excerpt-from-haifa-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian and Israeli: Excerpt from &#8220;Haifa Fragments&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this excerpt from khulud khamis&#8217; novel <em>Haifa Fragments<\/em>, jewellery designer Maisoon seeks &#8220;an ordinary extraordinary life,&#8221; which isn\u2019t easy for a tradition defying peace activist, and Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling of being an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors&#8230;Frustrated by the apathy of her boyfriend and her father, enamoured with a Palestinian woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must determine her own path.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>khulud khamis<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the following week, Maisoon has some finished pieces she needs to take to the boutique and asks Christina if she would like to join her. \u201cWe won\u2019t be long. After that we can go back to Wadi Salib if you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They take the Carmelit up to the Carmel, \u201cthe shortest underground in the world,\u201d Maisoon laughs as they get off several minutes later at the last stop. They spend about an hour at the boutique, and while Maisoon is busy rearranging the jewellery, Amalia and Christina talk \u2014 mainly Christina answering Amalia\u2019s questions about her experiences and first impressions of the West Bank. When they emerge from the boutique, the sun is halfway up the sky. They walk the short distance to the bus station in silence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8378\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinifexpress.com.au\/shop\/p\/9781742199009\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8378\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/haifa-fragments-khulud-khamis-9781742199009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/haifa-fragments-khulud-khamis-9781742199009.jpg 517w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/haifa-fragments-khulud-khamis-9781742199009-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Haifa Fragments<\/em> by khulud khamis is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinifexpress.com.au\/shop\/p\/9781742199009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spinifex<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s take this bus, it goes a longer way, but you\u2019ll get to see some new parts of Haifa,\u201d Maisoon points at bus number 5. They get on and sit close to the back, Christina by the window.<\/p>\n<p>The doors close and they begin to descend from the Carmel \u2014 a winding road connecting mountain and sea, called Derech Hayam in Hebrew \u2014 the Sea Road. As they descend the mountain, Christina notices that the houses become less grand, the streets are not as clean and proud. She imagines the residents from on high looking down in disdain at the lower parts of town \u2014 Hadar HaCarmel, Wadi Nisnas, Halisa, Kiryat Shprintsak, Kiryat Eliezer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this story your grandmother told you \u2026 about what happened to her in 1948 \u2026 did it make a change in how you see things today? I mean, did it have a significant effect on your life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I never thought about it like that. Of course it affected me but not in any particular way. I mean, I can\u2019t isolate this or another experience and point to a clear effect on my life. It\u2019s a package deal, you see. Every one of them adds to the ones before it. And what are we made of, if not our past?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bus continues down the winding road, and towards the end reaches a bus station with about seven or eight soldier-boys standing around. It stops for about a minute and a half \u2014 which seems too long to Christina, who is sitting at the window, only glass separating the men from her. Weapons always make her edgy, especially when slung over the shoulders of boys. One is smoking, letting failed rings of smoke out of his mouth. The other is standing talking to him, and at one point shoves his hand down his pants to adjust his penis and scratch around it. The machine gun sways slightly with his exertions. These guns aren\u2019t like the ones she\u2019s seen before on the streets of Haifa and the West Bank. They seem heavier, thicker. Or maybe they\u2019re the same and only look more threatening because she\u2019s sitting next to a Palestinian woman who crosses that forbidden line every now and then. What if one of them gets on the bus and decides to sit opposite her, the machine gun pointing in her direction? What if he hears Maisoon\u2019s accent or, worse even, what if he hears Maisoon saying something not to his liking? She sighs with relief when the bus takes off without any of the soldier-boys getting on. Then, a second sigh on account of her blonde hair and fair complexion.<\/p>\n<p>A couple, one of them holding onto a shopping cart, gets off at the next station. An old man walks by, holding a transistor radio to his ear, the antenna sticking out. The bus continues. Now they cross a clear boundary, leaving Kiryat Shprintsak behind with its dilapidated, colorless houses and enter Wadi El-Jmal \u2014 Ein Hayam in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Arabic name means the Valley of Camels while the Hebrew means the Eye of the Sea.\u201d Maisoon\u2019s commentary picks up, \u201cThe Arabic name comes from the area being historically a resting point for camel convoys coming from the North \u2014 Akka and the Sham, on their way to Jaffa, Gaza and then Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bus stops, a young Arab woman gets on with two small girls. Nobody gets off. Maisoon motions towards the mother, \u201cLook how calm she is? It wasn\u2019t like this some years ago. I remember after a bombing of a bus that I used to take regularly, I \u2026 I couldn\u2019t get on a bus anymore. Everybody was taking taxis.\u201d She lowered her voice. \u201cI took a taxi once but never again. Two men sitting in the back were discussing the security situation and how Arabs are all traitors and can\u2019t be trusted. Anyway, right in the middle of this, my mobile rings. I panic. It is Tayseer\u2019s number. I hesitate before answering. Then I hit the green button and my \u2018aloo\u2019 comes out sounding very Arabic \u2026 like I wanted to provoke \u2026 I didn\u2019t let my fear or panic show. I will never forget the faces of the two men when they realized I was an Arab. The enemy, sitting right there with them in that crammed space. After that, for months I would walk everywhere. If I needed to go someplace far, I\u2019d ask my father or Tayseer to drive me, or I would borrow my father\u2019s car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The architectural scenery is breathtaking. Christina concentrates on the old stone houses. Greenery gone wild. Other houses are newer, but built in ways that are reminders of the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you can\u2019t say this is how it was for every Palestinian after a bus had been bombed. This is how it was for me. And I still can\u2019t get into a taxi. But this woman \u2014 look at her. Maybe she took the bus the day after a bombing. Maybe she didn\u2019t. Maybe a relative of hers was on a bus that was bombed and it has taken her years to get over the panic, maybe she\u2019s forced herself to get on the bus every day and that\u2019s how she\u2019s gotten over it. This is how it is around here, this is how we live \u2026\u201d Maisoon shrugs.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, they are out of the residential neighborhoods and on the main Sea Road, passing the National Maritime Museum of Haifa \u2014 with two warships exhibited in front of it, an unnecessary reminder of wars. After that, they\u2019re in the \u2018business\u2019 sector of downtown \u2014 car agencies, falafel and shawarma places, metalwork workshops. All of this among scattered unoccupied houses, their owners expelled in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>They get off the bus one stop before Kiryat Ha-Memshala \u2014 the Government district, with its ugly glass buildings and lawyers\u2019 offices that are fast encroaching on Wadi Salib until one day, no Wadi Salib will remain. It\u2019s a short walk to the souk. 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