When will American Christians get more engaged by the occupation? Here is a great piece from Reuters on a new Israeli road in the occupied territories that encircles a small Christian community that is too darn close to the Israeli settlement of Har Homa (left). Reuters:
"With this situation they will put us in a cage, a zoo,"
said William Sahouri, 42, a resident and member of the project's
housing committee. "We will not be able to expand."…
"It's not their property and they take it against your
will," said Yassar Qumsieh, a 30-year-old Website administrator,
who moved with his wife to their Beit Sahour flat in 2006.
"I don't know how to describe this feeling. To call it
injustice seems stupid because it's not a big enough word."
Palestinians see the Jewish construction in Har Homa, which
they call by its Arabic name Jabal Abu Ghneim, as the last
rampart in a wall of settlements encircling Arab East Jerusalem,
cutting it off from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
