Musings from the Merse
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Bethlehem 'Security Wall'
Members of the University of the Third Age expressed interest in the Great (Security) Wall Of Israel which is part of a 700 kilometre or so (Hutton to Southampton) barrier-part wall/ part electric or barbed wire fence. So here it is shutting off Bethlehem from everywhere else. Rather dwarfs the former Berlin Wall and with only 30 (not always manned) gaps it makes life very difficult for thousands of Palestinians who have lost more than 8,000 acres of good land for the barrier itself and with much more acreage separated by the wall from the farmer who owns it and can no longer get to his fields or his olive groves.
Some stretches of the wall are so short of ways through that it is like driving from Hutton to Galashiels to get to the other side. A tad inconvenient if you are rushing to the nearest maternity hospital, for instance. Why blog about it I hear you cry.
Because it is there.
Thankyou Alan Pacetta
Some stretches of the wall are so short of ways through that it is like driving from Hutton to Galashiels to get to the other side. A tad inconvenient if you are rushing to the nearest maternity hospital, for instance. Why blog about it I hear you cry.
Because it is there.
Thankyou Alan Pacetta
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