There is a pastime spent during these hot West Bank days, trying not-so-desperately-anymore to understand any form of rational argumentation or logic about cause and effect, or logistics….of anything! Which deteriorates my use of language (not to mention the art of thinking) even further as words defy meaning! I’m grasping for some logic…..
For instance: A Palestinian family can get (if they’re lucky) a permit to visit their incarcerated son in an Israeli jail, but probably would have difficulty getting a permit, or even funds, to travel the roads between Palestine and Israel to go to Tel Aviv court hearings, or to the jail.
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| Happy Israeli Soldiers at Agriculture Gate-Jayyus/West Bank |
Let me try another scenario: A farmer has a permit to enter his own agricultural lands, but when it expires, it may take him months to renew the permit….which means he might miss the harvest time of his olives…..which means he cannot reap the fruits from his lands or hard-won labour….which means……his lands may deteriorate, and thus become absorbed under an archaic Ottoman Empire law that says any unkept land for three years reverts back to the State (in this contemporary case, of Israel). Actually, there’s logic in all that.
Let me try another…..: Palestinian medical patients cannot get a permit to see their doctors for follow-up treatment in Tel Aviv (Israel) because the doctors are boycotting the authorities’ delays (and some reductions) of monthly salary payments (due to the Israeli government delaying regular funds from taxes to the Palestinian Authority). So the innocent suffer…..
Well, there’s some logic in that……
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