Abu Dis, Wed 20.8.08, Afternoon
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Daniella Y. (reporting)
Aug-20-2008
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Afternoon
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.