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Finally, after eight and a half hours of waiting and interrogation at the airport, we were cleared to leave. Our commute from Tel Aviv to Ramallah was remarkably fast and easy. We encountered one checkpoint between the two cities, and we were cleared to pass as soon as the driver told the soldiers in Hebrew that we were American. We reached Ramallah in less than an hour—in stark contrast to the three hours it took to travel from Ramallah to Nablus (a distance of 30km) two days later...
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...
This wall has nothing to do with security. When we drove from Ramallah to Tel Aviv (departing for 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...
...leaders believe it may be to their advantage to allow Hamas to take full power, in the expectation that reality will quickly prove the Islamists incapable of governing. Some elements of Fatah may even be inclined to respond violently the outcome, and clashes Thursday outside the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah suggest that there may be more trouble ahead. But Fatah would be foolish to underestimate Hamas' ability to govern: Most of the candidates on their electoral list have post-graduate degrees, and many are experts in various fields of governance. They will certainly be looking to impress the Palestinians...
...develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. Tom Wright Burke, Virginia, U.S. Ramallah's Renaissance Re Your article " Palestine's Oasis Of Artistic Freedom," about the cultural revival in the West Bank city of Ramallah [Dec. 19]: Maybe the world will begin to understand that before the so-called Israeli occupation can end, the terrorist occupation of the Palestinian territories must cease. When...