Today is our last day in Jerusalem - my right knee will thank me. In the past few days running as much as one year and not now show itself, the first physical signs of wear, especially the knee hurts with every step: the thigh tendon literally scrubs the patella. I hope somewhere an anti-inflammatory ointment (Mobilat) to get hold of and then it's smear-resistant and not much running. In any event, not today.
Yesterday we had put up towards Bethlehem: Arab bus No. 21 at the Damascus Gate (6.50 NIS), and no sooner had the bus drove off, He was stopped even by Israeli military. A young soldier entered the bus and asked for all the passes - except ours. A short " From Where You Are ?" - And our response ". Germany " enough. The mood on the bus was instantly an atmosphere of suppressed anger and (in) tense fear subsided, had to get some Palestinian youths. Each pass was checked, three young men had to stay back - the rest could go on.
The travel between Jerusalem and the occupied territories (Palestine / West Bank) can be for so many Palestinians to a gauntlet: it are strict rules. Lives of Palestinians in Jerusalem, he needed a permit to visit his family in Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus. Lives of the Palestinians already there and want to go to Jerusalem or to Israel proper, he get there only with a special exception permit or a work permit for Israel.
The faces of Palestinian men and women testified in the bus from disappointment and a feeling of helplessness. Inevitably, the question will be: W he would actually go me personally, if I were in their situation ... in Israel and in the Palestinian?
In this country, one is permanently torn. Only on Monday - after our visit to Yad Vashem - THE ultimate memorial to the millions of victims of the Holocaust, the heart is absolutely pro-Israel and the destruction of Israel is not worth a single doubt. But the very next day - so yesterday, after the situation in Hebron, Beit Yalla and Bethlehem, the high-security wing of the check-point in Bethlehem, and the political graffiti on the oversized high boundary wall (partly desperate cries for help to the world the same) saw and We had a long talk with our Palestinian taxi driver who gives way to the heart (and humanity) of course for the needs (and rights) the Palestinians. The search for a unique personal position in this "battle-brother" like looking for the exit in an extensive maze.
is no doubt (at least for me) that every person has the right to liberty and self-determination. At the same time it's appropriate for me as beyond doubt that every person has the right to protect his body and life. But where to start the A and ends the other?
Or another way: Where does this to protect yourself from used to control the other? When is self-protection for arbitrariness and where or when do the one that protects itself to conversion moved, sometimes forced, too?
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