JUSEF RAMZI in his garden
in Qalqilya. The inhabitants of this small farming town (40,000 pop.)
have become virtual prisoners in an open-air prison. "For
reasons of security" about ten acres of Mr. Ramzi's land have
been confiscated. He asks, "Why don't we have international
protection? Where is France, where is Germany, where is Europe? Is it
only the Israelis who have America to protect them? The world is
blind -- they don't see the tyranny of which we are victims." The
old man explains to me that this rich agricultural town has lost 40%
of it's fertile lands and most of it's water wells. "When you
lose control of the water sources, he says, then you lose the land."
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