Through the arms and the barbed wire (before the building of the wall)... Cisjordan travel report

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After an unsuccessful attempt to get to Amman for a visa to Syria, we decide to head to Jerusalem, we will leave Damascus for the next opportunity! We arrived at the Allenby Bridge from where we come to the West Bank to reach Jericho and Ramallah. Instead of the border with Israel controls are tight, sifted into the car, upside down, we enter into the West Bank, so much barbed wire and then it seems to change the world, half the houses destroyed, roads that end in an abyss without notice, skeletons of cars and trucks a little bit everywhere. Ramallah is a town garrisoned see from afar the palace headquarters of the Palestinian government, life goes around in the chaos of the typical Arab suk.
The suffering of these people can breathe in every corner of the road rage you feel on the skin, it seems impossible to live in such a situation, but most of the children around us have never seen anything but weapons and war. Play among the ruins of an armored car or a car burned.
After the First World War the Ottoman Empire disappears, defeated. The League of Nations sorts between England and France, the political and military control of the Middle East. Palestine was under British mandate.
Meanwhile, spread the "Zionist" organization and a movement among Jews worldwide, but mostly in Central and Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland, Russia) and for various inspirations, fleeing persecution by the serious view'800 (pogrom), the utopia of a form of society and economy of the communist (the kibbutz), the stimulus for economic colonialists groups (involved in control of the Suez Canal and petroleum) and a religious component that aspires to return to the Promised Land, promote Jewish migration to Palestine, and stresses the goal of the foundation of a Jewish National State.
For almost 30 years the British government is pursuing a policy ranging from immigration and favor its ban when it comes to mitigate the hostility of the surrounding Arab nations, especially those of countries of the oil. From the land that the Zionists are buying a high price from the old Ottoman landowners (residents almost always far away, in Damascus or Baghdad), the residents are evicted Palestinians. Already in 1920, 1926, 1936, there are clashes and riots, not so much for religious reasons but for economic and social causes.
During World War II Nazi persecution, the Holocaust and the refusal of Western countries to take charge of Jewish refugees forced hundreds of thousands of them to take refuge in Palestine. The situation is increasingly difficult to control. The British government surrendered to the protectorate. The United Nations shall decide on the division of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Palestinian. Jewish terrorists kill the Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, the UN in charge of the mediation. The surrounding Arab countries reject the partition and take the war against the state of Israel, self-May 14 1948.
A year later, at the end of the war, Israel expanded its territory. Jordan in control of parts of Palestine and Jerusalem (West Bank and East Jerusalem). Egypt controls the Gaza Strip "along the Mediterranean coast.
In June 1967, while an international campaign of the press had presented a aU'Europa to America and Israel threatened to exterminate Israel exploited the situation and because of its huge superiority 'aviation and technology, attacked the Arab states and operates a second invasion in Sinai, but continues even after the war that the Arab states have agreed to the truce taking hold across the line east of the Suez Canal, the fertile West Bank and the strategic heights of the Syrian Golan. And immediately began a "Second Jewish" while the exodus of Palestinians, forced for the second time in twenty years to leave everything to the Israelis. The "war of six days", far from being defensive, it is conceived only as the first moment of the expansion plan Zionist. The "blitzkrieg" immediately followed by the creation of posts of agriculture and military defense. Begins on a large scale exploitation of oil in the Sinai, it ignores the international character of Jerusalem, and the Minister of Labor announced that "the current borders are vital."
For how long?