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SCENES FROM GALILEE AND NEGEV There are three themes in these pictures of life during the second intifada inside Israel. The first is destruction: the threat of house demolition hangs over the heads of many of Israel's Palestinian families, particularly the one in ten who live in what the state calls "unrecognised villages" for whom legal construction is impossible. Other families, in recognised towns and villages, often cannot get permits from the authorities to build, even on their own land. When the state so chooses, it makes an example of a few of them, as several of these photos illustrate, to warn others that they must stay in their ghettos. The second theme is protest: braver members of the Palestinian community are swept up in occasional public outbursts of anger in response to their treatment. The small protests shown here took place in the shadow of the deaths of 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian labourer at the hands of Israel's security forces during demonstrations in October 2000. The third and final theme is the fetish of violence: Israeli Jewish society has been drawn into a cult of militarisation, to the point where parents gladly let their young children play with real guns and tanks.
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Jonathan Cook News Archive, last updated on Friday, 14 September 2007 |
