July 29, 2003

The Wall.

We've been busy with planning our return to the States in 2004. That, and learning Arabic. Meanwhile, Sharon is in DC with Bush. The issues of the Security/Separation Wall is high on the agenda. It has become the new stumbling block in the negotiating process towards a settlement of the conflict here. Somehow the Israeli argument that it doesn't mean a border when it is costing three million dollars each mile doesn't quite hold water. That and the destruction of Palestinian farmland - and the separation from that farmland - that goes alongside it is not building any trust in Israeli goodwill.