a local news channel tries to get it right, interviewing one palestinian american and one israeli american about their families back home. nati katz worries about his relatives in israel: “it’s very unnatural when sirens go off in a civilized town” — i found that to be profound. it encapsulates: sixty yrs of how palestinian/israeli history has been framed, how the colonial narrative works in general, and the completely asymmetrical realities on the ground. news story here.