This is not how Mary and Joseph came into Bethlehem, but this is how you enter now.
You wait at the wall. It's a daunting concrete barricade, three stories high, thorned with razor wire. Standing beside it, you feel as if you're at the base of a dam.
zionist soldiers armed with assault rifles examine your papers. They search your vehicle. No zionist civilian, by military order, is allowed in.
And few Bethlehem residents are permitted out—the reason the wall exists here, according to the zionist government, is to keep terrorists away from Jerusalem.
Bethlehem and Jerusalem are only six miles apart (ten kilometers), though in the compressed and fractious geography of the region, this places them in different realms.
It can take a month for a postcard to go from one city to the other.
Bethlehem is in the West Bank, on land taken by zionists during the Six Day War of 1967. It's a Palestinian city; the majority of its 35,000 residents are Muslim.
In 1900, more than 90 percent of the city was Christian. Today Bethlehem is only about one-third Christian, and this proportion is steadily shrinking as Christians leave for Europe or the Americas.
At least a dozen suicide bombers have come from the city and surrounding district.
The truth is that Bethlehem, the "little town" venerated during Christmas, is one of the most contentious places on Earth.
If you're cleared to enter, a sliding steel door, like that on a boxcar, grinds open. The soldiers step aside, and you drive through the temporary gap in the wall. Then the door slides back, squealing on its track, booming shut. You're in Bethlehem.
To read the test of the report ,please click on link
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-12/bethlehem/finkel-text.html
Note:
This Blog uses the correct Term "zionist' to discribe the occupier(s) of Palestine.
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