Friday, December 11, 2009

Dilemma of Palestinian settlement builders

"I feel like a slave," says 21-year-old Palestinian Musanna Khalil Mohammed Rabbaye.

"But I have no alternative," he says, as he waits among a group of sun-beaten men in dusty work boots outside the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim.

The phrase comes up again and again as the labourers try to explain why they spend their days hammering and shovelling to help build the Jewish settlements eating into the land they want for a future state of Palestine.
BBC Online

2 comments:

  1. i don't know if i buy the "i have no alternative", but it seems to me the PA should outlaw this and pay unemployment out of those millions they're stashing away.

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  2. Sounds good to me..

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