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Surda Checkpoint
We are at Surda checkpoint between Ramallah and Bir Zeit
Bir Zeit has the university
And most of the people you see going around here
are unversity students in addition to villiagers
who come from the western side of the West Bank.
This is the only entrance to Ramallah from the north
Now the problem with this checkpoint is that it harrasses everybody
it harrasses a mother taking a child to a hospital
it harrasses a man going shopping in Ramallah
it harrasses an old woman that has to get to the doctor
sometimes people have died on this checkpoint
because they could not get into the hospital in Ramallah
now..
stop stop stop...
relax...
relax... relax, there is no need to be so...
Bye.
Bye.
2 hours later Bir Zeit Village
This one, the brown part
No. The one we have at the office is more yellow
When the mix contains more cement it's whiter
The yellow has a higher percentage of quartz. It fades with time
Have you made a mosaic carpet before, Sir? Or is this the first one?
-No, I've made many of them. -So you've made many carpets
-Is it more difficult that laying regular tiles? -Not at all
You mean anyone who can set the 30x30 tiles can do these, too?
It's the same work, but since these ones are smaller, it takes more time
For me Palestine is history
and Palestine with no old houses with no old cross vaults is not Palestine
and I think for me it's extremely important to protect these houses
because this is a traditional culture not only for the Palestinians
but also for the world community, you say the word Palestine and for everyone in the world it means something
it either means Jerusalem, or Bethlehem, or Jesus Christ
So many times I feel that the responsibility is really
not only ours for Palestine but the world community to help us protect our culture and heritage