grafitti wall jerusalem

grafitti wall jerusalem
Originally uploaded by nostalgist

And here is the security wall and all its multilingual graffitti. It is such an ugly thing - even from the glorious promenade you can see it, snaking across the landscape. For all it may or may not have done to improve security inside Israel, it has divided people from their work and their families - Jeremy said the hope and flowers school in bethlehem, devoted to co-existence and teaching values of peace, has seen its enrollment drop to a quarter of what it once was because the wall has made it so difficult for so many former students to get there. Samar said when the wall was built here (where the photograph is taken) the Arab residents of the neighborhood on the Jerusalem side were happy because their property values went up - until then, they'd been considered not inside Israel since their neighborhood was outside the 67 borders but the wall has redrawn the borders in some flagrant ways.