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This past year, while watching from afar how my homeland self-destructs, and the people fighting to keep that from happening, I was mostly too busy with teaching to make any art about the situation. Once my summer programs ended I had about three weeks of time with no commitments before I was set to participate in the San Francisco Zine Fest. Multiple friends and colleagues asked me if I was working on anything new and I kept saying- if I make anything in this short window it’s going to have to be about what’s happening in Israel right now, it’s all I can think about. Most of them did not really know what I was talking about. Which made it clear, I had to make it. When I sat down to do it, this is what came out.
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