July - Apartheid
Apartheid, Refugee Camps and The Wall
Israel is a beautiful country - well organized and clean with pretty neighborhoods, attractive people, restaurants, theaters, art galleries, sports events, museums and zoos. This small country has everything any other major Western Metropolis has.
And then you cross the Green Line and enter the illegally occupied Territories covered with illegally built Jewish settlements connected by settler-only roads. The Palestinians are crowded into broken-down villages and refugees camps behind huge concrete walls and watch towers, patrolled by soldiers, held back by checkpoints, frustrated in daily life, in poverty and despair because they see no hope.
Why did Kerry apologize when he mentioned the word "Apartheid" the other day? He called it what it is. The inhabitants of Tel Aviv live in the "Tel Aviv bubble", as it is called, happy about their own comfortable circumstances and unable to care about the concentration camps beyond the Green Line.
See below the video "Stay Human!"
And then you cross the Green Line and enter the illegally occupied Territories covered with illegally built Jewish settlements connected by settler-only roads. The Palestinians are crowded into broken-down villages and refugees camps behind huge concrete walls and watch towers, patrolled by soldiers, held back by checkpoints, frustrated in daily life, in poverty and despair because they see no hope.
Why did Kerry apologize when he mentioned the word "Apartheid" the other day? He called it what it is. The inhabitants of Tel Aviv live in the "Tel Aviv bubble", as it is called, happy about their own comfortable circumstances and unable to care about the concentration camps beyond the Green Line.
See below the video "Stay Human!"
Entrance to Ramallha Bethlehem
Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, smaller than any of the camps in Gaza.
Originally set up for 5,000 refugees, now housing almost 28,000 people in an area of 0.25 sq.km which is about 0.096 sq .miles. It is heavily congested and suffers from bad water and sewage. No plazas, no parks, no playgrounds.
UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Work Agency - provides services for 19 camps in the West Bank, housing altogether 754,000 registered Palestinian Refugees.
Originally set up for 5,000 refugees, now housing almost 28,000 people in an area of 0.25 sq.km which is about 0.096 sq .miles. It is heavily congested and suffers from bad water and sewage. No plazas, no parks, no playgrounds.
UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Work Agency - provides services for 19 camps in the West Bank, housing altogether 754,000 registered Palestinian Refugees.