A Jerusalem you don't know about
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- Category: Gerusalemme
- Published on Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:54
- Written by Mohammed Aweida
May 20, 2012
Community centers? There they don't know what that means. Bomb shelters? There's a shelter in Abu Tor, but they turned it into a girls' school because they have nowhere to study. Infrastructure? What a difference between us and the western part of the city. We pay the taxes of an Israeli city, but it feels like we're living in a Palestinian refugee camp. "An integral part of Greater Jerusalem," say populist politicians about East Jerusalem. It would be more accurate to say: "An integral part of Greater Jerusalem's tax collection system."
