A Wake-up Call
Irrepressible Palestinian children... But smiles of happiness
may turn to tears of frustration when they grow up to find their
dreams dashed in a country ravaged by decades of military occupation...
where lands and resources have been stolen, education curtailed,
freedom cancelled and travel made almost impossible...
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Bethlehem
Former CIA analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison, writing in
Counterpunch in January 2005, described Bethlehem as a dying
little town now partially encircled by the Wall and cut off
from Jerusalem, its religious and cultural twin. "Already surrounded
by nine Israeli settlements. by a network of roads restricted
to Israeli use...
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Jenin
For daring to be a 'fortress' against foreign aggression and
a centre of resistance Jenin has been made to suffer dreadfully.
In 1938 the British army blew up about 150 houses. An eye-witness
wrote to his girl-friend: "It's insupportable, a British terrorism
worse than terrorism itself.
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