Checking on the checkpoints

[ex_jew]

From the Guardian...

Checking on the checkpoints

They're all women, all Israeli and every day they go to West Bank checkpoints to try to stop soldiers harassing Palestinians. Linda Grant went with them

..snip..

Sometimes the soldiers say to me, 'Why are you doing this?' I say, 'Because I am Jewish and my grandparents were in the Holocaust.'"



link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1136689,00.html

What superb women ! A blessing upon them.

[gate of the sun]

1. I heard about this yesterday

from a former soldier who worked the checkpoints...which he totally disagree's with and refused to work the checkpoints any longer he said the check points were severly harming the Palestinians. From the ability to work to get an education and to go to the doctor. He believes the best thing for Israel is to end the occupation.