This magnificent house, which was called (Harun al-Rashid) for its luxury, which Golda Meir inhabited in the Talbieh neighborhood, west of occupied Jerusalem, belongs to the Palestinian Hanna Bisharat, who appears in the picture with his family in front of their stolen house. The Palestinian "Hanna Bisharat" built his house in Jerusalem in 1926 for his large family (pictured in black and white). After they were expelled during the Nakba, Golda Meir, the PM of Israel who declared "There were no such thing as Palestinians" stole this home and used it as her residence.
I came to love my father, but only when he was dead, at that moment when he still looked like himself but a self that could no longer cause harm, only a still self, dead; he was like a memory, not a picture, just a memory. And yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
Jerusalem, the Capital of Palestine in Byblos, Lebanon
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