Life in Ramallah with David Osit

Today, David Osit, filmmaker and director of the movie <a href="https://www.mayorfilm.com">"Mayor&#8221;</a> joins us, to talk about the Mayor of Ramallah and all the challenges for life under the occupation. Today, we also have <a href="https://twitter.com/Alexand3rTheMeh">John from Discourse Podcast</a> join us as a guest host.<br/><br/>The film is available on <a href="https://www.mayorfilm.com/screenings">Virtual Cinema</a> <br/><br/>Show Notes<br/><br/>2:00 - How Ramallah Changed<br/><br/>4:00 - Limitations on the Mayor&#8217;s Job<br/><br/>5:01 - City Branding and What it means <br/><br/>7:35 - Municipal Services and the Challenges under Occupation <br/><br/>10:58 - Christmas in Ramallah<br/><br/>11:32 - Connecting with Mussa <br/><br/>13:45 - Meeting with The Prime Minister Abbas<br/><br/>16:24 - Schooling and Universities in Ramallah<br/><br/>18:37 - Daily indignities in Ramallah <br/><br/>&#8220;It took them 15 years to get a permit to build a cemetery&#8221; <br/><br/>21:03 - American conversation about tone vs conversation in Palestine<br/><br/>24:12 - Repeated oppression in Palestine and the Raid<br/><br/>26:01 - Trump&#8217;s Jerusalem Embassy and how it worked in Ramallah<br/><br/>29:13 - What is within Mussa&#8217;s power to control?<br/><br/>33:00 - Settlers&#8217; leave their mark<br/><br/>39:10 - How Israel breaks the Oslo agreement<br/><br/>43:15 - Surprising issues in Ramallah<br/><br/>You can find David Osit on <a href="https://twitter.com/davidosit">twitter</a> <br/><br/>Get full access to Historic.ly at <a href="https://historicly.substack.com/subscribe?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMjI3OTU2LCJpYXQiOjE2MjkxNjUzMzAsImV4cCI6MTYzMTc1NzMzMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgwNzkiLCJzdWIiOiJjaGVja291dCJ9.Sxu98W7QscBE0qqPnAJ8ygh7s4pTD-bUh5wUUCoNeBA&#38;utm_medium=podcast">historicly.substack.com/subscribe</a>