A Palestinian’s daily commute through an Israeli checkpoint

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ETHLEHEM, West Bank — Under starry skies, a young Palestinian Everyman wakes before dawn to begin his daily commute to work in Israel.

There are thousands like him. They are building Israel. Five or six mornings a week, long before the Muslim morning prayers, before the cocks crow, when packs of dogs still own the dumpsters, his alarm beeps. Today it is 3:30 a.m.

His name is Tarek Al Taweel. He is a Palestinian construction worker, not without skills. He builds modern high-rise apartments in a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, where a five-bedroom penthouse sells for $600,000.

The job is okay, he said. He makes 250 shekels, about $68 a day, twice what he would make in the West Bank. He works beside his father, uncles and brothers. They’re proud of their craftsmanship. They keep photographs on their mobile phones of their aluminum work, fine carpentry, elaborate tiling.

It’s not the work. It’s the Israeli checkpoint. “I hate it,” Taweel told us. The daily crossing drains him. It makes him feel that life is desperate and ugly.

“Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I don’t want to go to the checkpoint. Sometimes I put my head back on the pillow,” Taweel said. “My wife will say to me, ‘You have to feed our child. Get up. Get up!’ And I get up and go.”

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...upied-checkpoint-hedonly-240pm:homepage/story

Very similar conditions to Kashmir. Blatant violation of human right by the Israelis.

 

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what similar conditions to Kashmir? Please dont make false equivalences

he's going to a rival country to work for a good sum of money

you want israelis not to have security checks for a people who are hostile to it?

If its an issue he is free to not go and work in the West Bank

 

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what similar conditions to Kashmir? Please dont make false equivalences

he's going to a rival country to work for a good sum of money

you want israelis not to have security checks for a people who are hostile to it?

If its an issue he is free to not go and work in the West Bank

Well talk about ignorance on the topic in hand. I don't even know where to start.