{"id":3356,"date":"2020-12-16T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:36:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:36:48","slug":"trying-to-leave-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/en\/trying-to-leave-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Leave the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3356\" class=\"elementor elementor-3356\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7aae4e94 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7aae4e94\" 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-74f9cc36\" data-id=\"74f9cc36\" 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-71b7a36e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71b7a36e\" 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=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>I wrote another letter asking for the travel permit, because it was my turn to make a move in this sadistic game of occupation bureaucracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Waiting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen are you traveling?\u201d asked my friend Sawsan. She knew about our plans to travel to the United States, for my partner, Osama, to take a sabbatical year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOur flight is in three weeks, but we haven\u2019t yet gotten the permit for Osama to leave,\u201d I answered. It was Friday, the second weekend of the renewed curfew in the West Bank. The coronavirus test positivity rates in the West Bank are about 30%. We anticipate a third general lockdown, but the Palestinian Authority is afraid of public opposition. People in the West Bank don\u2019t receive compensation or unemployment benefits when things shut down. Sawsan lives nearby, in an area that doesn\u2019t require her to cross police checkpoints, and we allow ourselves to continue to meet with her family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut you already paid for the apartment there and the plane tickets,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat will you do if you don\u2019t get the permit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">We were standing in the kitchen. I added vinegar to the pot of hot milk on the stove, to make ricotta cheese.\u00a0 Sawsan\u2019s two kids and my two kids sat on the living room floor, creating huge constructions out of lego pieces, wood blocks and building sticks. They worked quietly and seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have a choice,\u201d I told her. \u201cWe\u2019ll know only at the last minute if they\u2019ll give us the permit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bureaucracy Designed to Fail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI write to request an exit permit via Ben Gurion Airport for a Palestinian resident,\u201d I wrote to the public inquiries officer at the Civil Administration, the branch of the Israeli military that administers the occupation of the West Bank. Over the course of 15 pages, including attachments, I explained our humanitarian circumstances. I tried to anticipate the reasons the military authorities would cite to deny the request and to respond to them in advance: Palestinian residents are not permitted to submit requests directly to the military. The request is not sufficiently humanitarian. The request was submitted too late. The request was submitted too early. Allowing Osama to enter Israel would endanger the lives of Israeli citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Israeli authorities don\u2019t allow the Palestinian Authority to operate an airport in the West Bank and as a rule also don\u2019t allow Palestinians to travel abroad via Ben Gurion Airport. Jordan, which used to control the West Bank, ordinarily allows West Bank residents to travel abroad through its airport, but that option has been restricted since the outbreak of the pandemic, and even more so for people like Osama, who was born in Gaza and therefore needs a special Jordanian visa. Our only hope is a special, exceptional permit for Osama to travel via the Israeli airport, a permit that is unattainable unless you have an exceptional humanitarian justification and either connections or an Israeli lawyer. Luckily for him, Osama is married to an Israeli lawyer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Every day, I called the female soldiers working at the public inquiries department of the Civil Administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe request is being processed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOur response time is 45 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhat do you expect me to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In the meantime, we continued our endless preparations for relocating to the U.S. We advertised our apartment for rent. We registered Forat for public school and Adam for a private preschool in the United States. We cleaned the apartment. In the morning, when Forat refused to dress for school, I lost patience and screamed at her. Osama intervened, and I apologized to Forat, who had thrown herself on her bed, sobbing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhat are we doing wrong, that our lives are always full of stress?\u201d Osama asked me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI\u2019m not sure it\u2019s all our fault,\u201d I said, although yelling at Forat was definitely my fault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Two weeks after I submitted the request, I got a response from an officer holding the rank of first lieutenant: The Civil Administration refuses to consider the request, because it was not submitted via the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Although I expected that response, my stomach dropped with anxiety. I immediately drafted a second letter, because it was my turn to make a move in this sadistic game of occupation bureaucracy. I referred the first lieutenant to the affidavit we had submitted, signed by Osama, detailing his attempts to submit the request via the Palestinian Authority and the response of the Palestinian clerks: The Israeli authorities do not allow the Palestinian Authority to submit requests to travel via the airport. I sent Osama to the Palestinian Authority office a second time, and when he returned empty-handed, I certified a second affidavit in his name, that repeated what we had written in the first affidavit. I set a deadline for the officer\u2019s substantive response, after which, I threatened, we would petition the District Court. I called Debby-the-soldier to confirm receipt of the letter and the affidavit. Then I sat on the floor and burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I told Osama, after he picked me up and hugged me. I realized my stress was stressing him out. \u201cThere\u2019s an excellent chance they will ultimately approve the request, really. We expected them to do what they\u2019re doing now. It\u2019s all going according to plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThen \u2026\u201d He meant to ask why I was crying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI hate this game. I don\u2019t like playing it when I\u2019m representing clients, and I don\u2019t want to play it when the course of our lives depends on the outcome. Even for the few types of requests they would ultimately grant \u2013 the first, second and third answer is always \u2018no\u2019, because they know that most people will give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The phone rang. A woman who had wanted to see our apartment arrived. My bra, which Adam had found that morning and had waved like a flag, shouting, \u201cmilk!\u201d, his association with my breasts, was strewn on the floor next to the kitchen table. I picked it up, together with other things from the floor and shoved everything into a drawer. I opened the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYes,\u201d I told the prospective tenant, \u201cthe apartment will be available in two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This post was also published at haaretz.com on December 16, 2020:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/living-in-the-west-bank-and-in-limbo-1.9372254\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/living-in-the-west-bank-and-in-limbo-1.9372254<\/a><\/em><\/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>I wrote another letter asking for the travel permit, because it was my turn to make a move in this sadistic game of occupation bureaucracy. 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