Coinciding with Easter, I remember crossing at Allenby Bridge and being interrogated for 9 hours. I was asked what I wanted to do here by an Israeli security official. I replied that I was interested in Palestinian architecture. He looked at me quizzically and replied with astonishment “but there is no Palestinian architecture here”. It was both an earnest and spiteful comment at the same time and the possibility of something that contradicts genuine belief required immediate denial to maintain itself. Had I not been so worn out from thirst, lack of access to a restroom, or the at least nine hours of repetitive and seemingly innocuous questions (\"What\'s your grandfather\'s name?\"), (“Are you a Muslim?”)-duh!!! I couldn’t do anything but laugh at the sheer idiocy of the situation. It took the interrogators only nine-plus hours to get me to that state of paranoid insecurity. Imagine if one lived under Israel\'s oppressive security apparatus day in and day out!

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