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For all these decades, Walajees have been refugees on their own land, unable to see a sunset without looking at the remnants of their own village – now an Israeli settlement called Aminadav (which ironically translates as “a generous people”) – their springs now waterholes along a network of hiking trails used by Israelis and tourists. The colors were spectacular, but that wasn’t all he wanted me to see – just below the resplendent reds and oranges was the silhouette of a Zionist settlement amidst the shadows were some buildings with the iconic old stone that immediately identifies Palestinian buildings built before 1948. The sun had begun to set in the middle of our conversation. Most of the displaced villagers crossed over to the other side of the valley to the eastern hill of the village that came under Jordanian control after the 1949 armistice agreements – the valley itself becoming part of the armistice (or “Green”) line between the West Bank and the new Zionist state.

In October 1948, Zionist forces expelled all of the village’s inhabitants, and took control of over 12,000 acres of the village’s land. The village itself was on the hilltop to the west of the valley – the Valley of the Giants in the Old Testament – where the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway was built in the 1890s. On the eve of the Nakba, al-Walajah had a population of around 2,000 Palestinians living on over 20,000 fertile acres, dotted with fresh springs throughout the hills on both sides of the valley. Despite this, within what felt like no time at all, and illustrating each point with a document, Basel had shown me that al-Walajah is a microcosm of the Palestinian struggle. An engaging story-teller, he was one of those people who are masters of communication, but for whom language felt like a curse – so much knowledge to share, so many stories, but you can only say one word at a time. Within minutes he was talking me through the various maps and documents he’d prepared for my visit. Somehow, both Basel and I realized that we could skip them, and that we preferred it that way. Unlike most interactions between people meeting for the first time, this one involved almost no pleasantries. Standing behind a desk in the middle of the entrance room was a thin man with thick glasses, somewhere in his mid-twenties. We drove to what looked like a residential home, but when we entered I realized it had been transformed into a youth center. You should meet him… come, he’s expecting us.” Into his car we went, up the hill through Beit Jala and past the Israeli military base and checkpoint known as the “ DCO” and into the village of al-Walajah. It was the end of a workday when a friend and colleague, said to me “I have a cousin who is interested in political things like you. It couldn’t have been more than a few weeks after I had started a new role with a refugee rights organization in Bethlehem. Khaled Oudatallah in a eulogy for Basel al-Araj in al-Walajah, Ma1 Basel al-Araj, I Have Found My Answers, (Bisan, 2018), 388.

If you are true, you will be revolutionaries and resistance fighters. Nor did he call on us to be revolutionaries.

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I tried to cover as much as I could but if you still have a question in your mind feel free to give a comment before to go to sleep.Basel did not call on us to be resistance fighters.

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