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Here in the open fields
the caterpillars don't become butterflies yet another family's dream, dies bulldozing hillsides, one house at a time singing all the while, "this land is mine" Palestinian Bedouin wander to be free this, Israel doesn't want to see --so we girdle an entire nation inside a cement wall
Devorah Brous from a poem read at the Home Rebuilding in Anata, 22 August 2004
Near the Anata checkpoint in the northeast edges of Jerusalem, not far from the Shu'fat refugee camp, girls from the Bedouin village are debka dancing on the makeshift wooden platform an hour or so before sundown. The admiring crowd, exhausted from two weeks of home building, is enjoying the ceremony. Somebody's found a proper stereo to replace the one from the white hatchback that's being used for music. In the background, just above the valley below, are the fresh tracks laid down where the Separation Wall will run through the village. On the hillside above where the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adumin runs is a new prison currently serving as an interrogation centre. In the distance, you can see the Mount of Olives and Hebrew University on top of Mount Scopus.
Jeff Halper, Co-ordinator of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD), addressing...
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