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Quand la moitié est accessible par la mosquée, l’autre partie ne se fait que par la synagogue, il faut éviter tout risque d’entretuerie, il faut éviter de se voir, de se croiser, de se comprendre.

When half is accessible from the mosque, and the other part only from the synagogue, there is a need to prevent any risk of killing; there is a need to prevent seeing, encountering, understanding.

La guerre est dans les médias. La guerre serait-elle invisible? Même le mur semble moins haut, moins large, moins piteux. Quand est-on rentré en Cisjordanie?

The war is in the media. Could war be invisible? Even the Wall seems lower, narrower, less pitiful. When did we return to Palestine? I’m lost; the borders seem intangible.