West Bank: Israeli Bulldozers Pushing the Envelope in Mas'ha
BBSNews - 2003-04-09 -- Anna could hear the contractor instructing the bulldozer driver to bulldoze the camp in
general and Anna in particular. I wonder if the driver who killed Rachel got an order like that. After all, he was a
soldier and is supposed to just carry out orders. According to the driver himself, "I only stop if I'm ordered to stop".
Instead of bulldozing either Anna or the camp, the driver today in Mas' Ha came within inches. So maybe they can see. Anna
and the camp held it's ground. Not being satisfied with that, the driver began swearing at Anna and took down twelve
extra trees as punishment for the activists interference. Anna is one of many International activists that have joined
Palestinians and Israelis to say no to the "wall" being built by Israel. The Israeli's refer to it as a "security wall", the
Palestinians and Internationals, refer to it as the "apartheid wall" A peace camp has been set up in Mas'ha to stop the wall.
The Israeli government justifies the building of the wall as a means of securing its people from the threat of
Palestinian terrorism. If this were the case the logical place to erect it would be along the Green Line separating
Israel from the Occupied West Bank. Instead the wall is being built well inside the West Bank in what is clearly an
attempt to grab as much Palestinian land as possible for Jewish settlements. It also strangles many towns and villages
by cutting the people off from their land. Their only option then becomes evacuation.
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From Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine
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