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So everyone should be happy that an overcrowded checkpoint has been replaced with something that takes less time to pass through than a trip through New York's Port Authority terminal?
Ha!
{ Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization official, said that Israel “should not be working to beautify checkpoints, but rather to remove them and end its occupation.”
“We are a people that wants its dignity and they only way we can achieve that is ending the occupation and establishing an independent state along 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as it capital,” Ahmad said in a phone call.If the PLO wants a two state solution, then wouldn't there be checkpoints between the states anyway? }
Machsom Watch, the NGO that monitors the checkpoints, grudgingly admits that the new checkpoint is much, much better - which, to them, makes it worse. They used to bring reporters to the chaotic, overcrowded and dirty checkpoint there, and now it looks better than most airports:
{ The new terminal is well lit, there is no crowding such as we used to see, people one on top of another, and it really does move quickly and efficiently . But I think of the times that we have brought people to see the horror of the situation there and also the photographers. When such people now come to Qalandiya how many of them will be aware what is going on behind this civilized scene. The West Bank, Hebron, The violence of the settlers, the soldiers who support them and give them a free hand, the nightly invasion of houses, children even under the age of 12 who arrested, the trees that are cut down, the schools which are destroyed, the demolition of houses. And I ask myself ….. Will Qalandiya be the whitewashing of the occupation. As usual, Israel is going to be blamed.}
As usual, Israel is going to do the best it can, knowing that people will criticize it no matter what.
(full article online)
New Qalandia checkpoint fast, clean, efficient. Israel haters upset at losing the photo-op of long lines. ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
Ha!
{ Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization official, said that Israel “should not be working to beautify checkpoints, but rather to remove them and end its occupation.”
“We are a people that wants its dignity and they only way we can achieve that is ending the occupation and establishing an independent state along 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as it capital,” Ahmad said in a phone call.If the PLO wants a two state solution, then wouldn't there be checkpoints between the states anyway? }
Machsom Watch, the NGO that monitors the checkpoints, grudgingly admits that the new checkpoint is much, much better - which, to them, makes it worse. They used to bring reporters to the chaotic, overcrowded and dirty checkpoint there, and now it looks better than most airports:
{ The new terminal is well lit, there is no crowding such as we used to see, people one on top of another, and it really does move quickly and efficiently . But I think of the times that we have brought people to see the horror of the situation there and also the photographers. When such people now come to Qalandiya how many of them will be aware what is going on behind this civilized scene. The West Bank, Hebron, The violence of the settlers, the soldiers who support them and give them a free hand, the nightly invasion of houses, children even under the age of 12 who arrested, the trees that are cut down, the schools which are destroyed, the demolition of houses. And I ask myself ….. Will Qalandiya be the whitewashing of the occupation. As usual, Israel is going to be blamed.}
As usual, Israel is going to do the best it can, knowing that people will criticize it no matter what.
(full article online)
New Qalandia checkpoint fast, clean, efficient. Israel haters upset at losing the photo-op of long lines. ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News