Berkereta Ke Jerusalem & Nablus (33pics)

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[size=1.25em]SCARY WHETHER TO GO TO PALESTINE?



Travel to Israel would be defective, if I had not planned to visit also the Palestinian Authority. "In the territories," as locals say, going nepoymi that people kidnapped and murdered, the absolute lawlessness and real thugs.

In addition, each Israelite was at least once or passed through autonomy: for example, most of the Dead Sea is located in Palestine. There are many Jewish settlements outside the "big" Israel.

But there are three completely different Palestine: unrecognized state is divided into three zones: A, B and C. The third - just Israeli villages around the Arab world average - mixed zone, usually expensive in the autonomy of the cities "to the mainland." Zone "A" means full control over these lands by the Palestinian Authority. This is not Israel de facto, and legal disputes do not cease.

Overcoming fear and bullying stories, I set it there.



1 Here is the exit to the main Israeli territory. Good highway route leads from the Mediterranean to the Jewish city of Ariel: a zone B, but no car with Palestinian numbers will not pass in the opposite direction: see CPR?


2 We turned off the highway onto a secondary road, much of it already. Green trees - olive.


We pass three Arab villages. While not scary.


4 Everything changes when you see a big red front panels, where three languages ​​hanging warning: You drive into the zone "A", which is controlled by the Palestinians. Israelis entry is prohibited, dangerous for your lives and is illegal. In fact, in the blue passport holders can be a serious problem for crossing that line. But here is just on hand to be a Russian. Does scary at this point? Do not have time to think, when I took out the camera and opened the window, just drove past the Israeli military "Hammer". He stopped, the soldiers looked at me. I made a frame, closed the window and went out of their area of ​​jurisdiction.


5 And here the road has deteriorated sharply. Moreover, it has become narrow, there were pits on the roadside trash.


6 I drove almost to Palestine in the far north, near the town of Jenin. They say there are still killed on the streets, and people go to work with the weapon.


7 Sometimes the road became better. But appeared a tall fence. Behind him - Israeli settlement. Arabs get impossible. Israelis do not go outside, only on a specially built road connected to the "mainland."


8 That's the first point - the city Sabastiya. They say he used to be very large, and in general the capital of northern Israel in ancient times.


9 Today, it is a small Arab town. Quiet, no one on the streets.


10 On the wall tiles showing the distance to Jerusalem. Palestinian Arabs consider it their capital, for the time lost. In the local geopolitics Jerusalem to Mecca important.


11 Youth Club Sabasty.


12 On the building, which belongs to the local administration. "People's graffiti." Machine guns, grenades, Che Guevarra and a bunch of guys. Rumor Arabs really love the image of Che. And the pictures in the circles - red arrow pointing towards green Israel.


13 But the policy we have not yet interested in Sabastii there is one interesting place. Generally, there are many places, such as the tomb of John the Baptist. But it's interesting.


14 At a certain depth below the main streets - in the original story: Roman sarcophagi.


15 Empty, ruined, broken. But you can see, touch, feel.


16 That's impressive.


17 Almost everyone who visits Palestine, pay attention to the black tanks on rooftops. Immediately they remember that in Israel there are also tanks, only white. And come up with different theories why Jews tanks are white and the Arabs - black. To the extent that doing so, it was immediately clear to whom the bomb. But this is nonsense, of course. What do you think - why the difference? Offer their own versions, and in one of the following posts I will reveal the secret.


18 Patio.


19 Tractor with old Palestinian room. Left - Nablus region. Several decades ago, Palestine was more divided and fragmented, people could not go from one area to another, the roads were blocked by the Israeli military. To see who is where, the rooms were completely different colors, sometimes very strange. Black on blue is not readable? Does not matter, that the area of ​​residence of man is visible from afar.


20 people like Arab Bezrukov - Mayor Sabasta. It turns out very well said in Russian, as studied in Dnepropetrovsk. Generally, the language of Pushkin owns a lot of Palestinians, keep in mind.


21 On the streets across well, very strange cars.


22 And it is very strange numbers. Apparently, this car was bought stolen in Israel, and then they tried to get her to renew itself. It's very expensive, by the way, have to pay a large tax. So many people travel to Israel and the rooms do not bother.


23 Ordinary Palestinian rooms - white with green letters, there inverted, commercial traffic. Taxis in Palestine were more vivid than Izriale: they are bright yellow, with a bright green numbers. And a lot of them, more than in New York. Then show, take a look.


There are 24 taxi with black panels on the body: it is local, local machines. And that means that they can not leave the city. But much cheaper.


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26 Big Brother is watching. These towers were around Israeli settlements. From there you can watch as well as shoot.


27 Beautiful gorge, which became famous during the British Mandate British dumped guilty Arabs in the canyon. Now here disrepute.


28 On the edge of the canyon is an old abandoned plane does not even have wings.


29 Where did he come from here, in the middle of Palestine? Why is it worth, and can not fly? Or not cut into scrap metal?


30 This "Boeing 707" tragic fate, but much longer life than his brothers. I do not know how many left in the world like airplanes, hardly a lot. First he flew to Europe, then served in the Israeli Air Force transporters. Then, when the aircraft was written off, one enterprising Jew bought it and made a restaurant. But no matter. Then somehow the plane appeared in two brothers-Arabs, who were going to do here, near the canyon park. Put rides, ferris wheel even dragged.


31 But it did not: built park was not working and the day. The fact that it is placed in the suburbs, outside the city of Nablus. And the kids just could not physically get to the park. You know why? Between the city and the park stood PPC soldiers.


32 War is long gone, and no children's park, which was not to be revealed. A plane is worth. Now, without wings, they are lying side by side. Without a ladder, a few years ago it was possible to climb inside.


33 These are the first impressions of Palestine. Well, we go further? Next time, tell you about the city of Nablus: perhaps the most colorful and not spoiled by tourists.
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