Word: qalandiya
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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After giving a presentation at the “Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence” in Jerusalem, we witnessed the true face of military occupation. We were dropped off by our taxi at the Qalandiya checkpoint terminal, the only entrance or exit to Ramallah. We walked through a 20-foot opening in the massive concrete wall the Israeli government had constructed around the city. Side-by-side with dozens of men, women and children, we walked through metal barriers lined with barbed wire in a cattle-like procession. We passed by the window of a security-check area...
...Cairo), we were stopped only once as soldiers merely glanced at our American passports. In other words, we traveled from Ramallah to the capital of Israel with no obstacle, yet it took us three hours to travel to Nablus, and nearly an hour to walk through the humiliating Qalandiya terminal to get from Jerusalem to Ramallah. Israel has built a wall not to keep others out, but to keep the Palestinians imprisoned within; it is a manifestation of sheer domination. The wall snakes through the West Bank perforating it into dozens of tiny prisons. If this...
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