Status Updates From Our Cut of Salt

Marina’s airport experience hits a little too close to home

“None of them had made it to the boats in time, and now the Haganah had won.”

The real horror

“And settlers flooded in, an all-consuming, churning wave of people with no roots, wanting to play a fantasy, a dream—nightmare—pretending they had always been there, that their parody was armor to protect from the reality of living atop the rivers of blood over which the bones of this false city so brittlely stand...”

‘“Haifa?” the woman behind the reception exclaims when Haifa signs in. Her face is new. “Like the city?”

“Yeah.” Haifa gives her a polite smile.

“I’ve always wanted to visit Israel! Have you ever been?”

Haifa stares at her.

“No.”’

Oh no

“What was Palestine to a young, mixed girl living in America ? What was it to be Palestinian? Who was she?”

put this on your tbrs now. I mean it.

I finally got my hands on this arc and when I tell you that I’m seated…