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Jump To Comment: 1 2Tommy’s regular weekly updates from Bil'in are a tiny window through which we get to glimpse the suffocating burden which Palestinians endure over the full spectrum of their existence; razor wire encapsulation, territorial attenuation, international indifference and the constant pressure of the jackboot of their abuser who murders, maims, terrorises and steals with impunity. But maybe there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel: Israeli leaders must now choose carefully where they venture, they are held in contempt by the populace at large and have to stay a few steps ahead of a slew of international arrest warrants least they end up in the Hague …and so it should be.
Tommy's video report from Hebron is a chilling expose of normality in that grotesquely abnormal space
Boston-based journalist Ellen Cantarow writes in Counterpunch: According to a May, 2009, UN report, Bethlehem governate’s total land mass is 660 square kilometers, but only 13 per cent remains for Palestinians to use. The rest has vanished under the Greater Israel’s ever-expanding colonies and “outposts” ... the wall is a mighty force in this and in de facto annexation of Israel’s colonies to the Jewish state.But nothing ever prepares you for really being there. At some point this past fall, having spent days in group taxis and cars scribbling down the names of colonies and Palestinian villages, trying to get some geographical hold, I finally understood: all my points of reference had vanished. The landscape I had known in the 1980s was gone. The West Bank’s very geography is under assault as surely as historic Palestine’s after 1948 when Israel destroyed over 500 Arab villages. What is here today can be “disappeared” tomorrow ...