Neighborhood pays price of being on wrong side of Israel’s wall: Residents of Kafr Aqab are cut off from most public services, even though they live within Jerusalem’s city limits. The once-upscale area is now a slum.
But when the emergency dispatcher heard that the school was in Kafr Aqab, separated from the rest of Jerusalem by a 36-foot-high concrete wall, he told Abu Rameelh that firetrucks wouldn’t cross Israel’s separation barrier without army protection.
Photo: Israel’s separation barrier has left residents of neighborhoods such as Kafr Aqab cut off from most public services, even though they live within Jerusalem’s city limits, hold residency cards and pay city taxes. Credit: Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
rockets are still able to cross the barrier, aren’t they?
Well, if Kafr Aqab was within the wall, the same newspapers would be writing about occupation of the ancient “Palestinian” land.
More remarkable, that being cut off from the Israeli (read: jewish) public services, this place has become a slum. How come, that the wealth of the so-called Palestinians depends on the jews, the enemy?
And how does that sound: The border separates Saxony’s Zittau and the town of Hrádek nad Nisou in the Czech Republik. This town pays price of being on wrong side of the German border.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
