This is my home town... more like my home village.
It's not over populated, it's not in ruins and there isn't a constant struggle between the Israelis and Arabs living there.
On the contrary.
The open spaces allows the Beduim to roam around freely with their sheep flocks.
The construction work provides steady income to the Arab workers (the land you see being worked on in the video is now filled with beautiful houses. I'll take more pictures next time we're there).
The electric barbwire fence protects the Israelis from Palestinians attacks (which should put most of the stories you read in the news in a different light...because those fences are only around Israeli villages, not Arabs. So who's the attacker and who's being attacked?)
And yet, growing up, I never noticed it or understood the meaning of it.
Perhaps it was because we were surrounded by an electric fence that our parents let us stay out, unsupervised, playing till the sun went down.
We grew up taking care of the animals, working the land in the green houses, building forts and traveling a lot.
Then again, the internet didn't exist back then either 😉
2022
