Sealing in the Palestinians: The Story of the Most Controversial Border Wall in the World
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An excerpt from Rene Backman’s book, “A Wall in Palestine,” which lays bare an international human rights controversy.
The following is an excerpt from A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backmann (Picador, 2010).
Who invented the wall? Who came up with the idea for it? “Maybe it was me,” Dany Tirza says half-jokingly as he weaves his car through Gilo morning traffic. Adjacent to the southern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, this truly “new” city of thirty-seven thousand people, which dominates the nearby Palestinian enclaves of Bethlehem and Beit Jala, is considered by the Israelis to be a natural extension of the Holy City. In fact, Gilo was built on the outskirts of “Greater Jerusalem,” as it was redefined by Israel in 1967 after the Six-Day War, on approximately seven thousand acres of annexed Palestinian land. But Gilo is on the Palestinian side of the “Green Line,” which, since 1949, separates the State of Israel from the present- day West Bank. Thus, it is a settlement, one of twelve built by Israel since 1967 at the periphery of Greater Jerusalem.
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