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StumbleUponAt 10:00 p.m. last Sunday, in the middle of discussing whether Tel Aviv radical circles are a connecting point between current Western Anarchist thought and Third World liberation, ‘Yossi' - a radical Israeli activist called, suggesting I go with him to the Bil'in ‘outpost.' Unlike traditional understandings of outposts as land grabs by Jewish settlers, the Bil'in outpost is a Palestinian claim to land cut off by Israel's vaunted separation wall that sits on the edge of the expanding settlement of Modi'in Illit.
There's something beautifully surreal about pissing next to an olive tree, looking onto an encroaching settlement under a starry West Bank sky. The experience had an element of absurdity to it as just hours before I had been drinking and smoking joints with a friend, talking through the finer p......
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