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Today

12:43am IST Tuesday 08 November 2005

Today I practiced peace by folding origami shapes and making a ball. I found it took a lot longer to fold the shapes than to put them together. After the first assembly, I decided to make it again with a more lovely color scheme, so I made ten sets of three colors each, but it turns out I couldn't keep all the sets together. It seems that up to six sets of three can be kept together. I sorta have an idea for how they could be combined nicely, but I ran out of colored paper and basically out of patience.

Went on a tour of parts of the city with Ben et. al. Nightmare stories of the insidious ways Palestinians are being cleansed from this region. Near the end the tour leader was informed of a home demolition occuring nearby. I was too distraught to go. Ben, Juliet and Andrea went. To varying degrees, they were distraught afterward.

Dude. Their fucking home was destroyed in front of the family's eyes.

Home demolitions happen weekly. The basic story goes like this: they had no permit, so the house is illegal. but they have been unable to obtain a permit because it is too expensive slash too impossible to get.

Night fucking mare.