Please expand on this thought. Who is calling it a fence? Who is calling it something else?
This seems like a situation where probably "everything has two explanations" like in your previous post. I'd like to hear what the two ways of naming this structure are.
How do we give voice to the powerless in a situation like this, when the powerful are are using language to minimize their actions?
The Israeli Jews call this a fence. The Palestinians call this an Apartheid Separation Wall.
There is so much more behind this brief explanation of the wall. I'll have more information with me later.
The structure itself is a monument of injustice that has literally imprisoned Palestinians in an open-air prison. Only those with Jerusalem work permits are allowed to exit and for a specific amount of time.
The wall cuts off Palestinian neighborhoods from each other and curves in the favor of Israel. For example, I saw a place where the wall clearly bent around a beautiful olive grove so that the grove stayed on the Israeli side.
The wall was established in the wake of the suicide bombings that were the result of a cycle of violence and injustice enacted by Israelis and Palestinians.
Israeli's refer to it as a "fence" so to minimize the impact of its presence. Further, they refer to it as a "fence" for political reasons: a fence communicates to the international community: "this is temporary and merely for our own safety."
The irony is that, in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel practices the way of Germany (Berlin Wall) and the U.S. (The Southern Boarder).
Isn't it something that, funded by the U.S., Israel mirrors the practices of Germany (first) and the U.S. (second)? This is a major thesis that I'm developing. More on this to come.
Jer, I think that all levels of society, apart from God, tend to mirror the ways of the world. North Korea, for example does not receive money from the US, but looks like WW II Germany to me. Actually, the ways of the world are boringly similar. Secrets, lies, betrayal, violence, greed, self-righteousness. Only God is able to be creative in love. Unless we recognize that we are contending against evil (not just evil behavior, or even evil people) there can be no lasting peace. It is good to pursue peace by all means available. But we need to keep in mind that peace that is a product of mere political agreement is only a partial and temporary peace.
"For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night. Now when they are saying, 'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape."
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Please expand on this thought. Who is calling it a fence? Who is calling it something else?
This seems like a situation where probably "everything has two explanations" like in your previous post. I'd like to hear what the two ways of naming this structure are.
How do we give voice to the powerless in a situation like this, when the powerful are are using language to minimize their actions?
I've seen a "fence" just like this in San Ysidro, CA & Tijuana, Baja Mexico, Mexico...
The Israeli Jews call this a fence. The Palestinians call this an Apartheid Separation Wall.
There is so much more behind this brief explanation of the wall. I'll have more information with me later.
The structure itself is a monument of injustice that has literally imprisoned Palestinians in an open-air prison. Only those with Jerusalem work permits are allowed to exit and for a specific amount of time.
The wall cuts off Palestinian neighborhoods from each other and curves in the favor of Israel. For example, I saw a place where the wall clearly bent around a beautiful olive grove so that the grove stayed on the Israeli side.
The wall was established in the wake of the suicide bombings that were the result of a cycle of violence and injustice enacted by Israelis and Palestinians.
Israeli's refer to it as a "fence" so to minimize the impact of its presence. Further, they refer to it as a "fence" for political reasons: a fence communicates to the international community: "this is temporary and merely for our own safety."
The irony is that, in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel practices the way of Germany (Berlin Wall) and the U.S. (The Southern Boarder).
Schmatty.
Exactly.
Isn't it something that, funded by the U.S., Israel mirrors the practices of Germany (first) and the U.S. (second)? This is a major thesis that I'm developing. More on this to come.
You know how people tend to perpetuate the dysfunction they grew up with? Reminds me of a ghetto.
Jer, I think that all levels of society, apart from God, tend to mirror the ways of the world. North Korea, for example does not receive money from the US, but looks like WW II Germany to me. Actually, the ways of the world are boringly similar. Secrets, lies, betrayal, violence, greed, self-righteousness. Only God is able to be creative in love. Unless we recognize that we are contending against evil (not just evil behavior, or even evil people) there can be no lasting peace. It is good to pursue peace by all means available. But we need to keep in mind that peace that is a product of mere political agreement is only a partial and temporary peace.
"For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night. Now when they are saying, 'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape."
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