Author
Zak Brophy
In this radio documentary British journalist Zak Brophy investigates how the Israeli policy of separation impacts upon the Palestinian’s living under occupation, their relationships with their Israeli neighbours and the future prospects for peace.
Extreme measures are being pursued to realise former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barrack’s policy of ‘Peace Through Separation’. However, there are many Palestinians and Israelis who believe that the two societies are so intertwined that whether they like it or not they can never live in isolation from one another.
Nadal Azzah is a human rights lawyer and community support worker living in Aida Refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian territories. He has been witness to many ages of the conflict and he now lives under the shadow of the segregation wall. This ten metre high concrete barricade encircling the camp is the most striking and obscene manifestation of Israel’s policy of separation. “How can you build peace between two people living in one land while you are separating those people?” he asked.
For those people daring to imagine a future that lies beyond the wall, the challenges are many. But in the words of one former Israeli soldier “now we are talking about what we are doing now, we have seen one hundred years with the Zionists and the Arabs fighting. So what is the alternative?”.
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