“Somewhere on the road north, however, I completely lost the plot. I turned to my new UN map of the West Bank … I tried holding the UN map next to an Israeli map, but the two would not join.”

The Guardian’s Sarah Helm reports on the difficulties of finding the Palestinian city of Jenin. Despite being only a few miles away from it, she finds walls, checkpoints and unmarked Israeli-only roads blocking her way. For the convenience of illegal settlers, Israel has been very successful in ensuring that Palestinians are hidden from view on their own land. Article here.

Posted Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 4:14 am
Filed in human rights, middle east, politics

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