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They see the influence of the checkpoints on the everyday life of the Palestinians. They see the uncertainty, the robbing of time and space, the hardships of moneyearnings, of commerce, the cutting off family, etc.
Questions: Don't those walls and fences block the Israelis too?
About the policy of permits to go through and stay beyond the fences – the security excuses, the provocations.
How come that the Jews who had suffered terribly bring suffer to other people?
How can one understand the indifference of the Israelies to things that are done near their houses, and in their name?
Don't Rabbis protest about the robbing of property and killings of innocents?
I thanked them for the interest and curiosity about the unnecessary suffering caused to human beings – suffering that is far away from them, and wrongs that don't have immediate contact to their everyday life.
I asked them to pass on their impressions, and raise public and political protest that will empower the elements that are interested in agreement on the Israeli and Palestinian sides.
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Abu Dis, Wed 20.8.08, Afternoon
Observers: Daniella Y. (reporting)
I went on a tour with a group of 35 tourists from all over Italy, most of them members of the group Pax Christi.
15:30-18:00
"We never dreamt that there is something like that".
One can see the wall that blocks what used to be the main road to Jericho and to Jordan. Their reaction: "We never dreamt that there is something like that".
They see the influence of the checkpoints on the everyday life of the Palestinians. They see the uncertainty, the robbing of time and space, the hardships of moneyearnings, of commerce, the cutting off family, etc.
Questions: Don't those walls and fences block the Israelis too?
About the policy of permits to go through and stay beyond the fences – the security excuses, the provocations.
How come that the Jews who had suffered terribly bring suffer to other people?
How can one understand the indifference of the Israelies to things that are done near their houses, and in their name?
Don't Rabbis protest about the robbing of property and killings of innocents?
What do we have to do in order to bring peace quickly?
I thanked them for the interest and curiosity about the unnecessary suffering caused to human beings – suffering that is far away from them, and wrongs that don't have immediate contact to their everyday life.
I asked them to pass on their impressions, and raise public and political protest that will empower the elements that are interested in agreement on the Israeli and Palestinian sides.
Abu Dis / Lazarus gate (formerly The Wicket)
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Abu Dis / Lazarus Checkpoint/Gate (east of the former “wicket”)
Construction of the wall in the Abu Dis area blocked all the gaps that allowed people to cross from al-Ezariya to the neighbourhoods of Abu Dis and Ras al 'Amud that are located within Jerusalem’s municipal boundary. The Lazarus checkpoint is a gate in the wall adjacent to the Lazarus Monastery. Until 2011 it had a door for pilgrims to al-Ezariya and for the monastery’s kindergarten pupils from al-Ezariya. The crossing is currently closed, but the site has infrastructure for conducting inspections.
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