{"id":2732,"date":"2021-01-20T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2021-01-20T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T02:52:00","slug":"leaving-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/en\/leaving-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2732\" class=\"elementor elementor-2732\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3c9becbc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3c9becbc\" 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-4de12d35\" data-id=\"4de12d35\" 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-2c149768 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2c149768\" 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<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We waited for hours, the children and I on one side of the checkpoint, Osama on the other, hoping to make it to the airport.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cleaning the refrigerator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew you would clean again after I finished,\u201d Osama said, and peered into the refrigerator, offended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a new year\u2019s resolution,\u201d I said as I wiped away crumbs from the corner of the shelf. \u201cI will continue to vacate apartments in excellent condition, and I will forgive the people who leave us dirty apartments to move into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my sake, please don\u2019t do such a good job,\u201d he asked. \u201cIt\u2019s two o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our flight to the United States was due to leave at midnight. I reminded Osama that we were on schedule, but he wasn\u2019t reassured: \u201cYou\u2019re assuming everything will go well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Osama, the children and I were to travel abroad together, after Osama got a <a href=\"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/buying-hanukkah-candles-in-ramallah\/\">rare permit<\/a> to travel via Ben Gurion Airport, for a sabbatical year in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baba will cross on foot, because he\u2019s Palestinian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We picked up the children from friends and drove to the Na\u2019alin checkpoint, inside the West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Modi\u2019in Ilit. Osama got out of the car to walk across the checkpoint, and the children and I drove to the settlers\u2019 vehicular crossing. Three year-old Adam cried when Osama left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Adam, Baba\u2019s coming back,\u201d said his sister, six year-old Forat. \u201cHe\u2019ll cross on foot and meet us on the other side, because he\u2019s Palestinian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guard from the private security company passed me through with a wave of her hand, without even checking my accent. On the other side of the checkpoint, I parked in a lot filled with minivans waiting to take Palestinian workers to their jobs in Israel the following morning. Twenty minutes later, Osama called. His voice was terrible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won\u2019t let me cross,\u201d he said. \u201cThey told me, \u2018corona closure\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you show them the permit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. I made it to the last stage, and then they looked at the computer and sent me back. Aggressively.\u201d My stomach turned over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait,\u201d I told him. \u201cLet me check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe you should come back, and we\u2019ll try another checkpoint?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called my colleague, Idit, a lawyer who had helped us get the permit. She didn\u2019t answer. I called an officer in the Israeli army\u2019s civil administration, who had once helped me. He didn\u2019t answer. Forat and Adam were hitting each other in the back seat. I asked them to walk with me to the checkpoint. I didn\u2019t want to drive back across, for fear they would associate me with Osama and search the car. The last time that happened, the search took two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, in the dark parking lot, a bitter wind whipped at my face and almost blew Adam sideways. It was seven fifteen. As we approached the inspection area, a security guard stopped us, startled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalt! What are you doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I asked to speak with the officer in charge of the checkpoint. Cars whizzed past us on the dark road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam!\u201d I yelled. \u201cStay on the sidewalk!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dror, the checkpoint manager, shared my anxiety about the children\u2019s proximity to the road and walked us to a bus stop where the children could sit. But he was adamant about their father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a coronavirus block,\u201d Dror said. \u201cOnly the District Coordination Office in Beit El can remove it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he doesn\u2019t have the coronavirus,\u201d I protested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, that has nothing to do with it,\u201d Dror said. \u201cThey impose the block on a lot of people. But only the District Coordination Office can remove it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Idit called me back and sounded uncharacteristically worried. \u201cIt\u2019s a big problem,\u201d she said. \u201cTo remove a coronavirus block, you have to show a negative coronavirus test. But I\u2019ll try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForat, stop pushing Adam!\u201d I yelled and pulled them both back to the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s Baba?\u201d Forat asked. \u201cYou said he had a permit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in the parking lot, the children chased each other, laughing. I thought about the groceries I had ordered from the supermarket in North Carolina, that would arrive tomorrow, three hours after our flight was due to land. I had ordered dairy products that would spoil if left outside our new apartment. And the children were due to start school and preschool there.<\/p>\n<p>I called Osama and updated him. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t work \u2013 let\u2019s think whether I should travel alone with the children and wait for you there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adam announced that he had to poop. The toilet in the bathroom was a kind of dirty hole, with no seat. Despite the cold, I undressed Adam outside, under a tree. I gave him confusing instructions, and he peed on his pants. I changed his clothing. Idit called: \u201cI spoke to the most senior officer who would answer me at this hour,\u201d she said. \u201cHe said he would try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that he said he\u2019ll try,\u201d I said and then screamed, \u201cForat! Get off Adam! His nose is bleeding!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I put the children into the car and continued my rounds of telephone calls, trying to reach someone in the army who could lift the block. Forat yelled at Adam, and I gave her a bag of Bamba. Adam tried to grab it from her, and she pushed him. He kicked her, screamed, and then crawled into the front seat and put his head on my shoulder. I lifted my head from the telephone screen and suddenly remembered that he was three years old and very, very tired. Osama called: \u201cSweetheart, it\u2019s too much for you and the kids. Bring me my suitcase. Imad will pick me up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adam heard Osama\u2019s voice and started to cry. \u201cBaba! Baba!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called my brother and asked him to see if he could change Osama\u2019s plane ticket. I tried to put Osama\u2019s things into one suitcase. I cursed myself for the optimism that had led me to pack everything together, as if we would all arrive together. I felt guilty for scrubbing the refrigerator despite Osama\u2019s pleas to leave earlier. I took the children out of the car and started to drag the suitcase toward the checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarry me!\u201d Adam demanded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the way back,\u201d I promised.<\/p>\n<p>The road was empty. Adam was scared in the dark and clung to me, getting his feet caught in the wheels of the suitcase. Forat cried that it wasn\u2019t fair for me to carry Adam and not her, and why do I love him more than her?<\/p>\n<p>As we approached the checkpoint, Dror came out to meet me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s your car?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the parking lot. I don\u2019t have time for your searches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry. I\u2019ll let you drive back immediately. But tell your husband to come back to the checkpoint. We\u2019ll check if it\u2019s resolved in the computer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called Osama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t go back,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were aggressive. They kicked me out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDror, the checkpoint manager, says it\u2019s OK. Don\u2019t be afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIma, what is Baba afraid of?\u201d Forat asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaba is afraid the soldiers will be angry at him, but they won\u2019t be angry at him,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do they do when they get angry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I saw Osama\u2019s silhouette, approaching the vehicle inspection area of the checkpoint, two hundred meters from us. I waited ten minutes, but he didn\u2019t emerge. It was nine fifteen. I was afraid to surprise the security guards, if I were to drag the suitcase to the checkpoint in the darkness. I decided to trust Dror and to bring it to Osama by car.<\/p>\n<p>We returned to the parking lot. I buckled the children into the back seat and then suddenly Osama was running toward us, smiling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey let me through!\u201d he yelled. \u201cThey let me through!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuick!\u201d I said. \u201cPut the suitcase in the trunk, we don\u2019t have time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I opened the car door, and the sound of the children\u2019s crying swept over me. When they saw Osama they went silent and stared. Adam was the first to recover, a huge smile on his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaba!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Gurion Airport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were the last ones to board the plane. The flight attendants reminded passengers to keep their masks over their noses and mouths. The children looked for animated movies on the screens in front of them, Osama sitting between them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re here,\u201d I told Osama. And then I added: \u201cI hate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was also published at haaretz.com on January 19, 2021:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-on-our-way-to-america-a-race-against-time-at-an-israeli-checkpoint-1.9463586<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\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>We waited for hours, the children and I on one side of the checkpoint, Osama on the other, hoping to make it to the airport. 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