arrivée au superbe monastère de St georges; après deux jours de marche, ses opulants moines seront maudits pour nous avoir laisser affamés, sans pitié!!
Open only for the orthodox men, I will never be given the chance to see inside the monastery from inside,
But the site itself, lost in the judean desert, protected by the miraculous wadi, is an oasis of beauty in the modernity.
Here nothing to remind the mad times in which we are living, except the awful smell that come from the little river, polluted but the big settlement in the upstream...
'' existence denied''
was title we chose for the Exhibition about the check point of Bethleem during ramadan.
A lot of promising results!
Thanks Andrea!
Little comment about the Check point versus Machsom
The checkpoint is one of the most powerful tool of the occupation. Interestingly, the Hebrew
term for checkpoint used by all Israelis, “Machsom”, means barrier, obstacle. On the semantic level, it reveals the real nature of this concept: rather than a point of passage made for security
purpose, the machsom is a barrier, made to stop people, “to harass and humiliate”. (Amira Hass Clarifying the occupation lexicon
Haaretz, 2003 )
Furthermore, In kabbalistic vocabulary, the machsom is a barrier “that stands between this world and
the spiritual world"... quite an ironic coincidence, in the context of people trying to go to pray...