ABSTRACT
The most depressing part of being back in Palestine is seeing how far the Wall has come. Last summer construction started near Iskaka, a village in the center of the West Bank. The Wall is reaching about fifteen miles east of the 1967 border, taking everything it can with it. The protests continue, but for some it’s too late; the cage has been shut. Munira and her family still live locked up in Mas’ha while nearby Elkana settlers move freely to and from Israel. On the other side of the very same settlement is a village named Azzun Atma, now stranded between the Green Line and the Wall. Azzun Atma villagers are cut off from most of their schools, shops, land, and loved ones, and they live in what is rapidly becoming for all intents and purposes “Israel proper.” However, they are denied the basic rights granted to their neighbors because they don’t have Israeli citizenship.
