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I was wrong. She didn’t wear a hat because she was not married but she was a firm believer, she told me. Had she done her military service? Yes, but in peaceful surroundings, looking after children. I try to get into deeper conversation with her. She is so young, she must be more open-minded than Dr Tubiana. ” “What for? ” She made no reply. I sensed that she regretted having got into our car but I persist. At her age, she must have asked herself questions. ” “Of course. It’s Eretz Israel. ” “They have to accept that it is our land, even if they have been there for hundreds of years.

But the greatest concentration of forces is positioned on the side facing Ramallah, around an impressive electronic radar system and behind high concrete walls, erected to defend against gunfire, stones or possible suicide bombs. 1. Liana Badr has written several books, of which A Compass for the Sunflower (Women’s Press, London, 1989), Balcony over the Fakahini (Interlink, NY, 1993) and The Eye of the Mirror (Garnet, Reading, 1996) have been translated into English. 037 14/09/2004 4:44 PM Page 33 An Israeli Settler 33 We finally arrive at Dr Tubiana’s.

We were completely stressed. It was the first time that we had gone through something like that: every five minutes, something happened. “Finally, on the 23rd April, the army withdrew but the tanks stayed outside the city. We could go back to school; we had eight days left to make up the whole of the month. Our first exams were at the beginning of June. I worked like crazy to make up the lost time. I think I got about two hours sleep a night. I felt like a zombie. “When the exams began, the Israeli army was no longer in Ramallah.