Israel's Barrier, Part II

NPR's Eric Westervelt and David Gilkey traveled the length of Israel's separation barrier to explore how it has affected the lives of people on both sides.
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2009/israelbarrier/index.html

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[moali68]

Papers please. Give me your papers. No sir I'm sorry these papers are incorrect please come with me. But I live and work here. Not any more you don't.

[maa222c]

There were plenty of jewish people as well as muslims who lived in Palestine as neighbors before the formation of Israel in 1947. Since that day there has been war. Since that day Israel, which should not exist in the first place, continues to grow by occupying Palestinian land and making life harder and harder for Palestinians. Watch Occupation 101

[coachbrp]

I think they should be able to work it out for themselves. I just wish my tax dollars weren't going to help one side and fight the other.

[mindrunfree]

Sounds like a very challenging and difficult situation. My heart goes out to everyone involved.

[vivalaverve2822]

Fucking Israel..!!

We should send down Nuclear and wiped out all this Mother F@ckers...!!

From: CANADA

[jacintocaunk]

i feel deeply for the all the people living in that part of the world and their struggles, i have close friends that live there. The truth about the US "fence" is. all of what is now the southwest US, was part of mexico, and we found an unjust reason to go to war so as to take their land in the 1850's. im not saying the case is the same in israel. what i am saying is to resolve the issues we must look at everything not just the "fence".

google mexican american war, its worth the study.

[Keskin1975]

Of course the village is poor, they did and do not get billions of US tax payer money to build a military state within a region where another religion is dominant.

If that were so, they should go to north america and build a muslim state in the middle of it. Of course financed by some muslim rich country so their military can overpower the whole US.

Now that would be equality.

[MuzeTV]

Jews are bad and greedy. this is a fact not a stereotype! look your self, they had problems with the whole world since they appeared!

[TrautsEpoc]

well the difference is that we put out fence on the border, while Israel is putting it through some people's land and displacing others. Also there haven't been mexicans living here for generations who have been taken over by the US.

[jacintocaunk]

do i find it funny, absurd, or sad as we argue and talk about a fence and and a division of people if it is just? how can we end it?.... at least we are talking about the larger issues of this fence "border" while we americans maintain with out a thought a similar fence with mexico.

[joshv89]

Actually they dont get along because Israel shouldnt have been created in the first place and now the jews have control over the once palestine land