More on The Wall

July 16, 2005

The Wall. What does one call it? A separation barrier? An apartheid wall?
There are some who don’t like the word apartheid, while even the Archbishop Desmond Tutu has compared what is happening in the Middle East to what happened in South Africa:
“In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They [...]

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Bil’in Demonstration

July 8, 2005

[Sorry Sarah, mom and Sarah’s mom]
Today was a day of many firsts for me. I will upload pictures as soon as I am able, but it may not be until Sunday, because tomorrow our group will travel to Jenin.
What were the firsts for Adam?

It was my first time in Bil’in (click here for the ISM’s [...]

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Surviving & resisting…

July 4, 2005

This picture of the wall was taken from Abu Dis, which was one of the many towns we had to drive through on the way home from the Dead Sea yesterday. Because of the by-pass roads, closures, checkpoints, etc., what should take about 30 min to the Dead Sea takes over an hour and a [...]

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The Apartheid Wall

June 27, 2005

The Apartheid Wall. The Separation Wall. It is huge, and ugly and wrong. That is not uninformed propoganda. Even many of the Israeli soldiers in the IDF know that and tell us that. It is wrong. I will be taking photos of it wheneverf we run into sections of it. There is some amazing grafitti-art [...]

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From inside the wall…

June 17, 2005

I am writing this post from inside of the ‘apartheid wall’ in Beit Sahour, where I will be staying for the entire summer. We went through the checkpoint and weren’t given any problems by the Israelis, but within a few hundred feet of the checkpoint, I first saw ‘The Wall.’ It is extremely foreboding and [...]

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