Abstract

Photograph by Beno Rothenberg, Isreal State Archive, probably late April/early May 1948 (Azoulay 91)."'If you had been with me, boy, when we crossed the Latrun road on our way to Jerusalem, you would really have seen the Green Belt: the greenery of our pine-clad hills, trees everywhere hugging one another, branch intertwined with branch, while lovers embraced beneath them.' […] 'Was this why you demolished the Latrun villages, Imwas, Yalu, and Bait Nuba, and drove their inhabitants away, master?'"When I think trees, you think desert.I do not think about trees at all.When do the trees stop?In Gaza, the trees stop at "the desert's ebb and flow," where green is the measure of cultivated expansion, yellow the... Read More.