Separation Creates Differences in Palestine

When we mention all the Palestine land and all the villages

that are supposed to be part from each other, the problem start from the

situation in Palestine since the 1948, and that was happen at the

occupation from Israel people to the Palestine people, and that lead us to

understand what Israel did through the things that they did at that time.

Which they separated the cities and the villages from each other. While I

was thinking I told myself I must understand this word and try to define it

from different sources that I might it will give me the right definition

about it. If we want to give the right definition in the first about

separation. Which separation mean is an act or instance of being

the state separated, a place, line or point of parting. And it also

mean something that separates or been divided from each other.

"Eyal Weizan was saying his book about the word separation he gave it a different name which is "apartheid", and he said between Israel and Palestinians within the occupied Territories has been extended, on the larger, national scale, to that of partition."

If we want to start with the definition we must talk from different

people which are the Arab people, Jewish people. the arab people or the

Palestine themselves they say it as (Tafreq or fasel), that mean be part

from each other in the same city. When the arab people say that they are

part away and far away from the next side of the word that may help

them to try work with the situation in Palestine.

And the Jewish people say about the separation Israelis cites

“security” as part of the need for separation. as the thing that

will keep the Palestine people far away from the Jewish people and to

live in the same country but everyone in a far away from each other. The

Jewish people use some ways to make the separation through settlement

and check point.

From the villages that had the big effect from the Israel separation

is Battier. When I pass along with the bus I will face the check point,

"which called Beit Jala check point". we can go through it, and after we

pass this check point we will be in the Palestine authority or in the

Palestine areas. But if we want to reach Battier from Beit Jala we need to

go in the first place Beit Jala and to go stop near the DCO which an

organize group to help the people. after we arrived to the DCO we went

to Battier by walking and see all the land escape and all the empty land

in Palestine that Israel won't let us see them.

Railway separates us from old Palestine

In every city in Palestine

For the first time in my life I took a walk like this. Which was from

(Beit Jala) all the way through walking to (Battier) it was a really nice

walk with all my friends and my teachers and they gave us a lot of

information about the nature and about the land. While we were walking

we didn’t take the way that was use to walk in it, but the way has a lot of

small stones and dust, it was hard to walk in it but the teacher told us that

we should take this way for the walk not any easy way to do the walk.

They told us that the way will show us the real geography for

Palestine before Israel be part in this country. And we saw the different

ways that the Israel want us just to see these ways only.

When I was walking, I start talking to myself why we don’t came

to these places all the time to see all the wonderful sights in Palestine.

And I start thinking in all the ways, how Palestine was nice to walk

through the lands that Palestine have that just before the Israel took our

lands from us.

When we get through the medial of the way of the walking, we

took a rest and we saw a beautiful tree in the way and the old of the tree

like hundreds years ago. Which it called (Quercus)or (Oak Tree).

That was a really nice tree to look at and the teacher gave us the

most wonderful ideas about that tree, and the way that tree is steadfast in

the face of difficulties, like the weather changes and the human

difficulties around it. But that tree until now still facing all the problems

that the tree will face it. from my thinking I found that tree is like a

treasure to the Palestine people to be in there country.

The street that train in it is the way that separate Beit Jala from

Jerusalem before that road and the train the way was easy to go from Beit

Jala to Jerusalem was very easy but after the Israel occupation they put

the checkpoints all around the places to separate the two countries from

each other.

After the Israel put the checkpoint to separate Beit Jala from

Jerusalem form each other, the main mention for the train was to take

the goods from those countries to Jerusalem to sell it to the stores and the

people to get useful from it. But the thing that the train don’t do it that

the people they are not allow to get into that train for a ride or like a

transportation from a country to another one.

When we finished looking to the train, our legs heed us to the city

Battier which is a really beautiful city to stay in and to live. This city is

near to the train. And what is more beautiful in that city is the green trees

all around the city, and the geographic location for that place is just

wonderful to live in.

Through the time that we set and kept walking in Battir we saw a

family they use to live in that city, but in the Nikba war in 1948 these

people didn’t left their homes just because of the war but they stay inside

their homes until the time had to finish the war. But the people in that

city gave us the best sense of belonging to the country.

The people in Battier they are just nice people to deal with them by

talking and they explain everything happen in the war time and after the

war time that the people had to deal with, but they seem very strong for

staying in there city.

Because in different city they will be scared to stay in a city that

have war and they will be force to leave there city and to move to

another countries to live from the people that are doing the war and

killing innocent people.

Most of the people in Palestine in that time had to leave their

home and their cites for some while of a time until the war had to finish

in 1967, from the people that they force to leave their homes until now

they can come to Palestine to live in it. Because the Israel government

won't let them come to live in Palestine or in Jerusalem. I mean by the

people "refugees" in the West Bank and Gaza, refugees in other countries

to come back live in Palestine.

Now these people like to came live her and they really want to live

in Palestine to live and they wish also to get the Israel idea, which is the

prove that the people have the right to stay in Palestine or in Jerusalem.

That mean the fact that they want an Israeli ID is proof that they have the

right to stay in Palestine or Jerusalem. Also, you still need to explain

what territory you are defining as Palestine.

Which is the railway that separate Jerusalem from Beit Jala and the

countries near it. Which that road called area (C) and the road is the

railway (N.60).And I think that road is wrong to be there that will

separate the countries from each other. But the problem was that the

Israel government said that road should be there and must be to keep the

Jerusalem area from the Palestine area.

The walk in Tromoos Ayya

In our life's, we like to try anything new and to have a lot of

adventure in this big life. From the adventure that we like to do or to have

in our daily life is to walk in the empty land in Palestine, and in the

village of Palestine which mean in the land escape in Palestine. From the

villages that I like and wonder to visit is Tromoos Ayya.

The village Tromoos Ayya is the best village I have ever visit and

see in my whole life to stay and to walk through the lands and through the

old house and between the mounts, and near the water spring which in

the past was just any kind of a spring water, it was a spring going through

the land between the trees. Now I could talk more about that village from

my point of view when I went visit that village.

When I went to Tromoos Ayya in the early day, and we spend most

of the time in that village had the most wonderful day, in that day we

will never forget it for the rest of our life's. In the day that we took the

trip to the village e deiced between each other what e should do until we

reach the place where we want to go. When we reach the first place

which was the entrance of Tromoos Ayya and we gathered with each

other and with our professor and with our guided, he was the most

important person in the walk that we took because he help us a lot to

show us the area and he gave us the opportunity or the chance to get the

most wonderful idea about the village. Her a picture of the entrance of

the village.

When for the first time I seen this entrance I told myself that this

village is the heave itself just when I seem it from the outside before

going inside the village, but I went inside the village I told myself I still

have the same feeling that Tromoos Ayya is the heave itself because for

the most wonderful house in the city. The city is not just any village we

will say it just near Ramallah, it almost like a city itself it has everything

available in the town for the people needs to get it. They don’t need to go

the downtown to buy their stuff they have everything in the town and it

under control on everything they own, that the most wonderful thing with

the people in Tromoos Ayya because they help each other in there

difficult circumstances in their life.

From the thing that our guide told us about the village, is that most

of the people how use to live there they just left and travel to work at the

USA. The total of the people how live in Tromoos Ayya is 650 people

live inside the village and they are the real old people, and the total of

people how live in the USA is 6000 people live outside their homeland.

When we start walking in the village they start asking the guide

some questions about area A,B,C which we always wonder about these

three major areas. He told us that we live in the area (A) and the one who

is responsible about this area is municipal or in other word is the city

hull. While we were walking we passed some new nice house and then he

told us that most of the owner of these house they live in America to

work and all his family with him to support his back and to handle the

way that the American people live.

When I was walking I passed the place where they do the olive in

his season which they called it ( olive oil press). That was a really

wonder place to pass through, and he told me that all the people in village

like to do this by their hand don’t leave it for anybody else to do it for

him. This picture show to us the olive oil press.

Also we pass and talk to the mayor of the village in the city hull

and he told us about the land in Tromoos Ayya and a lot of things about

the village, and he show to us by the help of the guide which is Amo

Asraf the map of the village.

This map show to us all the area that around Tromoos Ayya, and

the red line is the Palestine villages that still the Israel didn’t take it.

After we saw the map we passed and interview and old lady which

she was helpful to us and gave us some information about the village.

From the information that she gave us is, in the first about the name of the

village, about her old house with second floor it the village. In the first I

like to talk about the name of the village which I think it's important to

talk about the name. The old lady told us the story of the name which was

there was a man who use to sell Tromoos in the past time and when

government issued a decision that all the people need to pay taxes to

them, in the first he refuse to pay them but after a while he still refusing

to pay them and told him I won't be able them, that why they called him

(Tromoos Ayya).

And about the house with second floor in it, it was the first house

in the village with second floor and the house built in 1935, that mean

long time ago 75 years ago and still the house existed and there are some

people live it such as the old lady which her name is (Em Ehab).

After all of this, we pass while we were walking the old city of Tromoos

Ayya with the old house were they use to live without building any big

house, and they use to live with animal, the animal use to stay down and

the people stay in the same house just sit upstairs.

This picture will show to you how the people use to live in the old

house with the animals without saying that we can live together in a

same room as we say these days to our parents and to our family.

At the end when finished walking we get to a place to have fun

with each other and with Amo Asraf in his place where he raised the

horses stud horse. While we sitting in his place he invite someone to talk

to us about the tradition in Palestine, because he use to work as a teacher

of history in the school and he work with some place to make sure that

the Palestinian tradition is still available. This is the man who talk to us

about the tradition of Palestine.

And in the place of Amo Asraf for the horse was so nice and has a

lot of horse. These picture will show to you the horse that he have.

At the end this what I have to talk about Tromoos Ayya from

opinion.