Diary of the wall: Week 1

Part of the wall

When I went up to the border between Lebanon and Israel, last Tuesday (May 1st), the bulldozers were removing the wired fences...

On Sunday afternoon, I had no plans...

I decided to go up again to the border...I wanted to see what had happened since my last visit...

2:30 pm...direction the borders...

3:30 pm...there I was standing in front of a wall...

Part of the wall was already there...in my face...

The UNIFIL "supervisors" were not happy to see me again...

They were communicating to I dont know who that there were two women walking along the wall...

The wall was there standing tall...in my face...

But even the wall was not sure what it was doing there...

Maybe 2 meters high...standing there...protected by the UNIFIL...

A wall that is built to protect is there to be protected by the International Community...

I would really want to know if the people on the other side of the wall feel now more secure...

When I showed the picture of the wall to my 8 year old son...he said to me: "It looks like the Berlin Wall"...

5:30 pm...back to Beirut...went to a restaurant...ordered food...people around me were talking about the great weather we had, the beach, the parties and concerts they want to attend in the coming weeks...

Can I blame them? of course not because that is the survival instinct...this is how they will continue living their lives...

Thinking about the wall will not help much...people need to find mechanisms to survive in this region...

Some party and some others build walls...but we are all trying to survive in the Middle East...