There are many frontiers in Israel-Palestine. On Wednesday of this week I was on my way home from a Bedouin encampment on the edge of the desert when I got a call to attend another house demolition in East Jerusalem. I had actually got a lift from an Israeli, who was mildly curious to know what I had been doing in a Bedouin camp. I told him that I and two colleagues had been called to witness the results of a visit from the police and the bulldozers – the usual team for Israeli demolitions – on the flimsy structures which constitute a Bedouin home.…(read more)
