[They look so much alike, that I missed noticing they were boy and girl, assumed they were 2 boys. Cute kids, see the site for the photo....granny]
Adam Shurati, left, and Hadas Maor in the picture chosen for Suter’s project
Last update - 19:23 30/05/2009
Can you tell the difference between an Israeli and a Palestinian?
By Dalia Karpel, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089016.html
The advertisement published in Haaretz in March read “Wanted: people who look alike,” and promised NIS 8,000 to anyone that could locate someone who looked like one of the eight people featured in the advertisement.
What the advertisement didn’t say, was that the eight people pictured were Palestinians.
The ad was made by Swiss artist Olivier Suter, as part of his project ‘Enemies’, which focused on the absurd ways people identify “the other”.
The advertisement is similar to a project Suter performed in Belgium, which asked viewers if they could dfferentiate between Flemish and French speakers.
Out of the dozens of photos he received, Suter picked a photo of an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy who liked alike. The girl is one Hadas Maor, whose photo was sent in by her father, geography professor Yehuda Keidar.
Keidar, a long-time supporter of a two-state solution said “[David] Ben-Gurion was right when he said ‘The Palestinians are not our cousins, they’re our brothers. Turns out, they could be twins.”
The Palestinian boy is named Adam Shurati and he was none too pleased about his likeness to a girl, according to his mother Nancy. Adam was further dismayed when his mother took him to have his hair cut to look like Hadas’.
Nancy, who lives in Bet Hanina, called the project “amazing” and said that her son’s resemblance to an Israel girl surprised her.
“The project is a work of art meant for all of us, not just for the sake of art,” Suter said.
Suter’s next “Enemies” project will take place in Rwanda and the Congo
Checked out the source you gave me on sweet potatoes - Called, and they said that they had some, but closest shipping date would be June 26 and in order to get them they said to order one of their leftover assortments where they fill orders with a variety of their leftovers.
I was all set to try that but instead called an old farm/field/garden store that had changed hands a few years ago. He said he was completely out, but he was taking orders through today for Beauregard Sweet potatoes and that he would have them in by next Friday. Since they are such a long season crop, I figured 3 weeks earlier would definitely be best, and the beauregard is a 90-95 day compared to some that are 120-140 day, and the beauregard is a good tasting very large root heavy producer. So I ordered from them.
Thanks for the connection though - they have a ton of varieties though - maybe next year I will order from them much earlier while there is a choice of varieties.
According to them they are receiving more than double the orders from last year, and are sold out of many.
I’d better get started soon on building that pallet root cellar we had info on here a ways back. I will probably fill that 4X4X8 cellar with white and sweet potatoes, carrots, butternuts and even pumpkins...