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Article: The writing on the wall.(World)
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- Catholic New Times
- Article date:
- September 12, 2004
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The bright red letters stand out starkly against the ugly grey cement. The wall that is slicing through East Jerusalem is some thirty feet high, but casts its shadow for miles. There is little the Palestinians hemmed in on both sides of the wall can do to oppose it.
So, the wall is dotted with marks where rocks have been thrown at it in anger, and covered with graffiti.
Some graffiti writers ask if the builder of this wall can be a "man of peace." Some ask how a people whose history is full of ghettos can now be building one. And someone decided to remind us all, in those blood-red letters, that it was "Paid by USA."
You can feel the wall when ...