Palestine, Everything’s normal, 2008
«Everything’s ok» according to dispatches. No major events on the field except Gaza has become a prohibited area, a giant prisoners camp where journalists, diplomats, and humanitarian people need to beg for the unobtainable permit allowed in the «only Middle-East’s democracy»…
What about the West Bank? «Not much», told me the managers of major news agencies in Jerusalem. From the start, I see the wall growing, Palestine that suffocates the broken lives of people living «on the other side», which devours concrete fields of olive trees, soldiers everywhere, check points, cameras, roadblocks, settlements, flags. Nothing is normal in Palestine.
Nothing is normal in Palestine. We became too blind, too used to it.
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