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1. kiakam Tourist from Rumi wrote ∼Saturday, Mar 15

   It is absolutely ridiculous! The wall has done nothing but damage to he Palestinian people, splitting families apart on either side, restricting their lives even more. The wall has damaged Palestinian land and agriculture. Haven’t the people of Palestine suffered enough?

       http://www.stopthewall.org

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2. saidamin Tourist from Rumi wrote ∼Sunday, Mar 16

   every wall has two sides to it. like the palestinians, israeli families and people suffer too from the violence with their Arab neighbors. whether it's called a "protection wall" or"apartheid wall", it causes harm to both sides in the short and long term.
   
   personally, from where i sit, i see it as more of an "apartheid wall" but making peace, like making love, starts with one, yet requires two parties for it to thrive and bear fruit for all.
   
   a recent report cited that global antisemitism is on the rise. this does not bode well for jews and humans as a whole. the global community, the US in particular, can help spearhead change between israelis/palestinians, if and when it is willing to value people, of all religions, background and color, as equals. idealistic? no, not really. we created whatever we experience now and can certainly work to re imagine it all.
   
   one luv.
   
   

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3. DRomeo Tourist from Rosa Parks wrote ∼Sunday, Mar 16

   Wayne Dyer often refers to an idea from the Native American tradition...."No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves."
   
   We have been foolish. 
   
   The more we identify with "us" and "them," "left" and right," the more we will continue to suffer.  Fundamentally there is no real problem in the world.  We are all one whether we like it or not.  The reason that policies fail, well intentioned as they may be, is that they are based on the perceptual illusion that we are separate and that our fates our separate. 
   
   What's good is what's good.  What's good for Palestinians is what's good for Israelis.  What's good for Israelis is what's good for Pakistanis, etc.  If your lungs are "healthy" but your heart is not--you are not healthy.  Children are not starving in Palestine, children are STARVING, period.
   
   All the presidential candidates are trying to sell us on "what's good for America."  Let's broaden the scope of the question.  What's good for the world?  Surely the answer to the latter will prove a sufficient answer to the former.
   
   Let's tear down the walls in our thinking, all other walls are sure to follow.
   
   One luv for real!
   

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4. DRomeo Tourist from Rosa Parks wrote ∼Sunday, Mar 16

   Love Revolution!  See what Lenny Kravitz has to say about all this :)
   

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5. tamarindwalk wrote ∼Saturday, May 24

   I think it is rather like the Berlin Wall - yet another example of Apartheid and an attempt to snuff out the desires of a people.
   
   Like all such walls, it will fall one day.
   

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6. Angelike wrote ∼Thursday, May 29

   I think the lesson was always the futility of walls and ramparts that have made history: from China, which lasted for more than 2 thousand years; Berlin, which was irritating for 28 years since the postwar period, and more recently the wall in the Israel. Not only haven't met their purpose of defence or internal security, but much less to achieve peace through complicated and expensive actions that have only helped to divide the peoples and exacerbate the conflicts that most often have their roots deep in the great social asymmetry, as reflected in their walls...

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7. bringingtharuckus Tourist from Lower East Side wrote ∼Thursday, May 29

   At this rate by the year 2100, Israelis will be living inside a glass structure. With a glass ceiling not only for the Arabic citizens who already have one but also a real physical glass ceiling for all the Israelis.
   
   Any jokes about glass houses and rocks? This is definitely the right setting.
   
   

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8. felicity wrote ∼Sunday, Jun 22

   It affect us but I'm not going to wail about it because we have to look at it from the reality.  What future will be for the Palestinian living there and for his family around the world.
   The wall reminds me of the second world war in Germany we study at college in history.
    
   I can always ask from God to help those in need in the time of need here and everywhere. 

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