"The patience of borders" .. Palestinian diaries between the barriers

Aseel Soldier - Occupied Jerusalem

"Between the barriers and the crossings and try to know the difference between them .. During the transfer between airports and interrogations and your search for your train stations or .. During the run between the stations of your life between the border in its forms and types discover your identity and crystallize your personality, find answers to the most difficult questions or may remain these answers open.

This was written by the lawyer Maqdisi Yacoub Ibrahim on the cover of his book "patience limits .. Diary barriers" presented on Wednesday at a ceremony in the Palestinian National Theater (Hakawati) in occupied Jerusalem.

The proceeds of the ceremony and the book will be returned to the "Salamtk" voluntary society, which serves the patients of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and their companions in many aspects for free.

The writer tells the reader through 15 stories recounted in his book about the depth of contradictions that he lives as a Palestinian with an Israeli nationality imposed on him because he is from the village of Abu Ghosh, northwest of Jerusalem.

He was born in 1979 in the village of Abu Ghosh and grew up in it. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism and then a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law.

"I love traveling and I hate to leave. I believe that the real journey of discovery is not just to see a new land, but to have different visions," he said at the beginning of his book.

With a quiet smile, the man received dozens of people who came to attend the ceremony to publicize his book, which included singing links to the Palestinian singer known as singer Mina Maysari.

Non-fleeting numbers
At the front of the stage, she placed travel bags and on the back side a display screen in which the author accompanied the audience on a journey of contradictions. He stopped at a slide with numbers 48 and 67 and said that whenever he visited a place and came across these two numbers, he immediately said, "This is us."

"The land of the Arabs, the Ottomans from the Levant to Bghadan and from Najd to Yemen to Egypt and Tetouan ... There is no limit to us, no religion separates us from the tongue of Hadad brings us together with Ghassan and Adnan." Jacob presented part of this song that sings in Arab unity. And read a sign saying "Arab Dinars ticket and foreign ticket 50 dinars".

"For the first time, I feel that my language will be a source of financial savings. For the first time, you will have all the feelings that you are a tourist, a local, an Arab and proud, and at the same time and in the same place.

But his happiness did not last long. The receptionist asked him for 50 dinars to enter because he was an Israeli. The employee did not retreat from his decision, despite what the Jerusalemite lawyer said to him, saying that he is Palestinian and his nationality is Arab.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Ibrahim said he lived in contradictions at an early stage of his life when he decided to attend a music teaching institute and found that most of them were closed because of the first intifada. He went to learn in a cooperative kibbutz near his village and was the only Palestinian among the Jewish students.

No one accepted his orientalist tendencies and refused to play for Fayrouz to find himself a stranger in his homeland and also a stranger among those who hold his nationality, and so the contradictions grew.

The Palestinian is humiliating
Of his hobbies of travel, and perhaps this hobby carried him a lot of adventures and positions that strengthened the conflict in 34 countries visited so far.

"I felt this freedom on my body while I was waiting in the small room at the airport," he said. "I did not know him, but I do not forget him. Before taking off from Lod airport. "

After an interrogation by an Israeli security man with him lasted three hours at Ben-Gurion Airport, Ibrahim boarded the plane and arrived in London. "Yes, I found myself talking about freedom. I described what I could describe. How was the feeling of being a Palestinian passenger at Ben airport? Gurion, to be a Palestinian and feel that you are a Palestinian, and your Israeli passport, you talked about the borders and barriers, and I talked a lot about Aseel, who did not know. "

Founder and Volunteer
In many other sections of the book, the author spoke about the Israeli military checkpoints he visits on a daily basis to transport patients from the West Bank and Gaza and their accomplices to hospitals in Jerusalem and the occupied territories for treatment, being the founder and volunteer of the Salamatk Association.

He said that his grandfather once told him that patience was considered an old border between neighbors and was replaced today by military checkpoints.

The other reason was that he was walking with one of his friends in the abandoned village of Ein Kerem, and stopped at length in front of the cactus plant that stood there and his friend picked up a picture of it and published it on his Facebook account and wrote: "But patience has limits."

In the last two lines on the cover of the book, the Jerusalemite lawyer wrote: "Let yourself move from one feeling to the next, and you travel from one place to another. You are a resident who did not succeed. If you are accompanied by worries and your sadness, be patient, even though patience has limits."