Trump left the White House without having built the promised wall with Mexico, but Netanyahu has ended his long term with the accomplished goal of separating Israelis and Palestinians with thick cement, so that the former can live their lives with their backs to misery. seconds.
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Israel completes the siege of the West Bank
The use of the word
apartheid
, the label that defined racist South Africa for almost the entire second half of the 20th century, to define what is happening in Israel and the Palestinian territories is conflicting. That Israel is a full democracy for its own does not entirely deny the comparison. Today some creators look at the conflict not so much as a territorial dispute, but - in the wake of the Black Lives Matter - as a scenario of racial discrimination.
The short film
The Present
, by the Palestinian British director Farah Nabulsi, nominated for an Oscar and awarded in different festivals, is a very small, everyday story of the hardships of a West Bank family that needs to buy, on the other side of control military, a refrigerator. In just 24 minutes, the short (on Netflix) puts us in the shoes of those who know themselves as second-class citizens because they are reminded of it every day.
There is no sign of anything resembling a peace process between the two peoples separated by Netanyahu's wall.
The two-state solution, ideal on paper, looks a long way off.
So much so that some voices - the intellectual Abraham B. Yehoshua or
The Economist
- propose exploring a single State - plural, confederal or whatever - in which everyone has equal rights.
Another idea surely doomed to failure, but without a doubt better than indulging in the daily humiliation of any family for going out to buy any.
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