{"id":2567,"date":"2020-03-09T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:44:49","slug":"today-we-must-dress-in-the-colors-of-the-palestinian-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/en\/today-we-must-dress-in-the-colors-of-the-palestinian-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Today We Must Dress in the Colors of the Palestinian Flag&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2567\" class=\"elementor elementor-2567\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5307e42 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5307e42\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-416f2014\" data-id=\"416f2014\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68fdd7bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68fdd7bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>My daughter\u2019s kindergarten is making a video about nationalities. It\u2019s a complicated topic for us. Her father and I can\u2019t even drive the same car<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I came home at 4 a.m. from a short work trip abroad. Osama was sitting in front of the computer. I kissed him. He told me that Adam had woken up at 3, and after he managed to put him back down, Osama couldn\u2019t sleep anymore. I got into bed alone, but almost immediately Forat woke up. I heard Osama approach her.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSurprise!\u201d he said. \u201cGuess who came home?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I entered the children\u2019s room and kissed Forat\u2019s sleepy, smiling face. I sat next to her, my hand on her back, until she fell back asleep.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">At 6:30, Adam woke up. \u201cWho came home?\u201d Osama asked. Adam ran to our bedroom, smiled when he saw me, and climbed into bed. Usually he only nurses before sleeping, but I hadn\u2019t breastfed him or pumped for three days. When he pulled at my shirt, I let him nurse. Forat was jealous. She made crying noises and tried to push Adam away from me. I wrapped my arms around her.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cDo you know that today you\u2019re supposed to dress in the colors of the Palestinian flag?\u201d I asked Forat.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMiss Chantal send us an e-mail. For Palestinian Independence Day\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI can\u2019t believe that Palestinians are really celebrating independence,\u201d Osama said, entering the room. \u201cHow much can we fool ourselves?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I ignored him and spoke to Forat: \u201cLet\u2019s find you red, white, green and black clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Forat picked up a pink Hello Kitty shirt from the floor, stained with ketchup and orange soup, apparently from the previous night\u2019s dinner.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSweetheart, they want the colors of the flag,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHello Kitty\u2019s ribbon is red.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">During my brief time away from her, I had promised myself to try to empower her in every interaction and to avoid, as much as possible, judging her.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYou decide what you want to wear,\u201d I said. And then I stumbled. \u201cBut sweetheart, the kindergarten asked for the colors of the flag.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In the meantime, Osama worked on Adam. We found black pants, and I suggested a red button down shirt that my mother had bought for him. Adam protested when Osama dressed him in the shirt.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cEk!\u201d he screamed, pulling on the sleeves and pleading with Osama to remove it.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBaba, the shirt is beautiful,\u201d Osama said.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cEk!\u201d Adam screamed in desperation. He appealed to me, pulling at the shirt, a look of horror and pleading on his tiny face. We compromised on a red T-shirt. Forat agreed to wear a red dress.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">At Adam\u2019s daycare, the children were dancing to percussive music or sitting on the floor coloring flags. Wafa, the teacher who always takes Adam from me before I finish saying goodbye, approached us.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhy isn\u2019t he dressed?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I looked around us. All the children wore intricate traditional Palestinian costumes, embroidered dresses and wide sirwal pants. They had sent an email asking us to dress the children in traditional clothing, but I didn\u2019t think the other parents would really buy a special costume for one day at daycare.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHe\u2019s wearing the colors of the flag,\u201d I said. Janna, aged three, arrived, and opened her coat to reveal a narrow black dress with intricate embroidery in bright red, blue and green. Was that hand-sewn? Who are these parents? If Adam makes it to daycare in a dry diaper and having brushed his teeth, I\u2019m ready to give us the Parents of the Year Award.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I went back to the car and began the drive to Forat\u2019s kindergarten.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI want Baba to pick us up from kindergarten today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBaba can\u2019t, sweetheart,\u201d I told her. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have a car. When he buys a car he can pick you up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhy can\u2019t he pick us up in this car?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt\u2019s related to the soldiers, my love, the ones who have trouble sharing,\u201d I said. We tell Forat that the soldiers don\u2019t let her father cross checkpoints with us, because it\u2019s hard for them to share. \u201cIn order to let Israelis but not Palestinians cross checkpoints, they want Israelis to drive Israeli cars and Palestinians to drive Palestinian cars. When we get to your kindergarten, I\u2019ll show you my car. There\u2019s something called a license plate \u2013 a line of numbers \u2013 that is yellow. But when Baba buys a car, the license plate will be white or green.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOh,\u201d Forat said. \u201cAnd Baba is Palestinian?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYes, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIs it like that for Diana\u2019s family, too?\u201d she asked, referring to her Israeli friend from Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIf Diana\u2019s parents come here, then yes, they will drive an Israeli car, with yellow plates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut they let children ride in all the cars?\u201d Forat asked.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYes, sweetheart. They let grown-ups ride in all the cars, too. You remember that Baba rides with us in this car. You\u2019re just not allowed to drive an Israeli car, if you are Palestinian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut it\u2019s not like that in Philadelphia?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cNo. All over the United States, everyone can drive in everyone\u2019s car. You remember that in Philadelphia Ima and Baba had one car, that we both drove in?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">We arrived at her kindergarten, in the new French school in town. There, too, the atmosphere was festive. The children were getting ready for some elaborate activity that required cutting large quantities of colored paper. Forat\u2019s teacher, Miss Chantal, approached me.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI wanted to ask you,\u201d she said in her charming, heavily French-accented English. \u201cWe\u2019re making a video in which the children present their nationalities, I mean for those who have an additional nationality. I asked Forat what her nationality is, but she didn\u2019t answer. She\u2019s also American, right? Can I say that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cForat is Palestinian and American and Israeli,\u201d I said. \u201cI mean, she has two formal citizenships, Israeli and American, and she is also Palestinian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAh, OK,\u201d Miss Chantal said. \u201cI wanted to check, because she didn\u2019t answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I tried to imagine what Forat understood from Miss Chantal\u2019s question. I found it strange that they expected five-year olds to know what a \u201cnationality\u201d is. It\u2019s kind of a complicated question. In an alternative universe, Forat could have come to kindergarten on Independence Day wearing blue and white.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Forat ran up to her friend, Yamen. \u201cWe\u2019re both wearing red!\u201d she said in fluent Arabic, her accent perfect. That child fits in everywhere, I thought. She looks beautiful in red, and in pretty much every other color, too.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This post was also published at haaretz.com on March 11, 2020:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/today-we-must-dress-in-the-colors-of-the-palestinian-flag-1.8664204\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/today-we-must-dress-in-the-colors-of-the-palestinian-flag-1.8664204<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter\u2019s kindergarten is making a video about nationalities. It\u2019s a complicated topic for us. 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