Palestine

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Date: 29 December 2005 14:53:35

I'm now sat in an internet cafe in Ramallah, what should have been a 20 min drive took us an hour and half. Having to travel through the wall, through an isreali check point with a sign proclaiming peace, security, the hope of us all was an experience I thought I was prepared for. I wasn't. Seeing a giant concrete scar on the landscape, seeing crowds of people travelling on foot, not having the freedom to travel angered me more than I can say. In no way was I prepared for the reality.

The graffiti on the said "the wall must fall" in hebrew, arabic and english.

Coming in we were thanked, our tourism was important, spending money here imputted into the local eccomony. Now we are here in a crowded city surrouned by a wall meaning that the simplest jouney took hours.

And that's all I can think about. I'm saddened by the situation, but my lack of understanding. It seems an age ago that I blogged saying the tickets were here, saying I couldn't really understand. I still don't. Unless I live my life under this occupation I never will. But here, now, I'm sad and angry, I cannot see hope, I cannot see the Holy Land, just a scarred land.

And the crucified christ weeping with all those who weep.