Diaries: Live from Palestine

I woke up this morning to a slew of reports about the new Israeli offensive against Palestinians in Ramallah. The Israelis have been talking about it for about a week but that didn’t stop CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Andrea Koppel from presenting the military operation as taking place “in response” to suicide bombings that just took place in the last two days.

Usually we are not informed a priori of what the Israeli government plans to do with us. However, today informing us is apparently part of their terror campaign. I am now at the University but we will probably be leaving early as all Palestinian governmental agencies have evacuated their office and internationals in the Ramallah area have been told to leave the area immediately.