PALESTINE : GREEN LINE & WEST BANK

Green line, a symbolic invisible trace a border wall erected in true. From across the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Authority of Arafat or what remains. The other side, the other side. Some cities such as Nablus and Hebron are hardly accessible. It must borrow the smuggling paths to avoid Israeli check-points that follow orders to the letter: "it does not, no way to talk. On the other military more conciliatory, explain that we will seek if it goes wrong. Bethlehem remains inaccessible, the Israeli snipers controlled the city where tanks patrol. The Palestinian refugees in the Church of the Nativity emerging exhausted in small groups to visit.

Ghost towns cut off from the world, these enclaves in the enclave are not entering or leaving little people. The some 300 Israeli check-points scattered throughout the Palestinian territories are on alert and replicate to lower incidents. Since the last massive IDF, daily life has become impossible is everyone pays the price of bombings in Jerusalem and Israeli reprisals. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Today the West Bank is to rebuild, how resigned the people who endure frustration and humiliation can find the strength to believe in a better future? Where is the hope when the threat of attack, retaliation and revenge loom?

Except in isolated populations, testimonials and feedback give another color to the situation: "together we can live here, we need the Jews and they also need us. It is our leaders who do not to save this agreement. The Palestinian people in its great majority and the moderates on both sides have nothing to gain in this conflict. " In this situation of latent war, where everything is radical, the most moderate were of the finger, the nuances are more and amalgams are frequent. It is easy to move to a spy or a traitor: "difficult to agree to 99% Theses with the extremists and fundamentalists of all stripes, it must give them 100% of our credit, without much discussion, c 'is useless to try to convince ... it is in our lives! "

Arafat, the iconic leader of the Palestinian struggle, whose portraits are lying among the rubble and ruins of Jenin camp that has renamed itself "Jeningrad", is increasingly isolated. The radical factions after its "liberation" and the lifting of the siege of Ramallah conditioned by the delivery of Palestinian activists wanted by Israel. A heavy payable under certain. If the initial objective of these two brothers enemies is to make life impossible, and deadly attacks on the one hand and disguised apartheid on the other hand, when the goal seems now reached.

The Israeli army tanks on board its trucks. Signs of real reassurances. This is the moment of truth. Arafat acknowledges his mistakes and promise "a deeply Authority reformed and democratic." The "no future" enclaves of the west bank of resounds across the green line, one certainty, the first attack, IDF tanks apparent ....