Diary of a wall: Tuesday May 1

I could not resist it...

Knowing that Israel was building a wall very close to where I was planning to by a land...where I had spent days and nights dreaming of camp David style peace resort...was not easy for me...

When I talked to others about it...they were not interested...

So what said some...others said:" I dont care I am not from the South"...

But I am not from the South either...but I care about my dreams and my future...

On Tuesday May 1st at 6 o'clock am, I was on the road...to the borders...

I arrived at 7:30 am, the road was not blocked, but the UNIFIL soldiers were spread along the small piece of land where the Israeli bulldozer was struggling to remove the wired fence to replace it with a concrete wall...

UNIFIL standby

 The Lebanese army was watching...and few meters away...the Israeli army was protecting its bulldozers...

Israeli army protecting its bulldozers

It was an ugly scene...

I was greeted with confused faces...asking me if I was a journalist...

They could not believe that I was not...

"Today is a day off, you should be home resting...what are you doing here so early?...you must be crazy", said one of the Lebanese soldiers with  a friendly smile on his face...

I looked at him...I said:" I have been told so many times that I am crazy, I should start  believing it"...

Then I turned and took the pictures...

One soldier asked me: "are you with or against the wall?"...

I said:"let them build it, then we can have something to destroy to mark the end of craziness"...

And I continued taking pictures...

Bulldozers at work till the wall is erected

At 10:30 am, I was back to Beirut...to my ordinary chores...as if nothing was happening in the country...

No one cared that Israel was building a wall on the border...

War and hatred have become so natural...that no one cares anymore...