Alex Olivera

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Mar 5, 2024, 12:54 AM

The people of the ‘center’

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Jerusalem from a roof

You can be on the right, you can be on the left, or anywhere between these two poles on a line… But suddenly, in the middle of our daily dose of horrors, something comes into my mind: what about...

Mar 2, 2021, 8:56 PM

The power of commitment

As I watch in horror the results of the Impeachment trial and realizing this "closure" will bring no closure at all to one of the most infamous periods of our moral lives, I say to myself: "We built this...

Feb 3, 2021, 10:43 PM

At home, and still alienated.

The world around us is territory of migrations. It is free for the animals and winds, for the tides and stars and for water and fire. For us, inserted in a culture, home is where our culture can be...

Apr 12, 2019, 10:02 PM

“We are here because you were there”

When we analyze a social outcome, we conclude through a series of “decisions”. Even though we do not have all available information, we know that something happened, and make attributions around it, as why it happened and accommodate to that...

Sep 19, 2018, 2:11 PM

What about ”Nineveh” ?

Many questions started to open as I hear of the murder of Ari Fuld e”l. A controversial character, very much loved by the extreme right. And there is indeed a sense of “right-fullness” in people that share Ari’s vision....

Aug 6, 2018, 6:38 AM

The ‘Israeli’ Palestinians. Who are they?

Almost non public information exists referring to the Palestinian Arabs that were made Israeli citizens in 1948. A paradoxical situation under a military administration, that made them simultaneously "citizens of a liberal nation-state and subjects of colonial administration" in...

Aug 4, 2018, 4:52 PM

The “atfal al-hijara” (children of the stones)

As every Friday in Palestine, many young people including boys and girls, get together, into what became part of their weekly activities. Always, the confrontations with the IDF bring all kinds of trouble. People argue easily that the effect or attainments...

Aug 2, 2018, 10:00 PM

Democracies and democracies

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Democracies are defined as follows; 1a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or...

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About Me

Alex is a Clinical Psychologist, a peace worker, a writer, a music composer and artist. She has lived in New York, England, Argentina, Italy, Amsterdam and the Middle East.