Americans have need to know what it is our government is supporting when it interacts with nations around the world and underwrites or condones their actions, because it does affect the lives of ordinary, decent people, sometimes in lethal ways, such as in Iraq and more recently in Lebanon and Palestine. It also affects the lives of children.
Nazlat Issa is a Palestinian village located in the North of the West Bank next to the Green Line. The village has been divided since 1948, but since that time its communities were able to keep family and community ties alive within the village, that is, until recently when Israel began to construct the Wall (or Fence as it is called in Israel). The Wall has been built right down the middle of the village, separating families and neighbors, shopkeepers and customers from their markets, people from their work, and children from their schools. Two hundred and sixteen shops and houses were demolished close to where the Wall has been built, and six hundred out of the previously existing 1,200 shops had to close. The Wall is only the latest episode in the 40 year long struggle of the Palestinian people under military occupation.
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