Here are my photos from the West Bank. Sorry for the crappy quality of the first few photos, we were still on the bus. In case you were wondering, this is NOT from a Taglit/Birthright trip — although if you know anything about Birthright, you probably know that they would never go to the territories. I went on a ten day academic tour of Israel with my college.
Going through the checkpoint into Bethlehem.
Bethlehem is one of the only places in the territories where tourists still go, which is part of why it’s written in English. The red that’s covered up says “to exist is to resist.”
Stubborn?
These were plastered on the separation barrier/fence/wall/etc. I had no idea what they were, feel free to enlighten me. I also liked the red target that says “bomb here.”
This was taken at the Dheisheh refugee center.
That’s Handala standing in front of keys strung together with barbed wire (lots of Palestinian families still have the keys to their old homes).
Our guide told us that this was the painting of a martyr who was from Dheisheh and the red was the names of the other martyrs who had died from the camp. He failed to mention how he died, so it’s just as likely that he was killed by the IDF as it is that he was a suicide bomber. My guess is that he was killed, though.
I’ll post more pictures soon, these ones are interesting but I have some others that were much better taken.
