What for do we need walls? We need walls to hold the roofs of our houses. We need walls to protect us from windy and cold weather. We need walls to protect our privacy. We need walls to separate us from other people.
There is a wall; it is a very well-known one. Every day lots of people speak about it. They discuss the idea of its existence. Is it a good or a bad wall? If it is a necessary and life-important wall, or it is a useless waste of money? If this wall saves hundreds of lives or if it spoils lives of hundreds? This wall doesn’t support any roof, it doesn’t protect people from any weather, but this wall separates. It separates two nations, who live in one small part of this planet. People, who look so similar, whose languages have so much in common, whose traditions and religions have so many similar customs. This wall has many names, the name u call it depends on the side you live. Some people call it a separation wall; some people call it a defense barrier. The name doesn’t matter. The reasons and the results matter.

The Wall project was started in 2002, when Ariel Sharon was prime minister of Israel. Millions of dollars were spent for it. On the one side of the wall live Israelis on the other- Palestinians.
On the one side of the wall we see houses with blue bullet proof windows and kindergartens with weird beton agglomerates that are closing open spaces. These agglomerates have protection function – before the Separation Wall was built, they were protecting Israeli children from shouting of snipers and they could protect them in the case of suicide bomber attack. On the other side you can see a nice small Palestinian village, but on closer view you can see that there were explosions inside several houses – they were attacked by Israeli army, after Israeli part was attacked by snipers from those houses.

Now these two nations are separated by the Wall, people of these two nations don’t communicate, don’t try to understand each other, and don’t trust to each other. Their children watching movies and cartoons about each other, and these movies don’t give much positive information about your neighbor. From the very childhood these children know that you shouldn’t talk to your neighbor, you should be suspicious and careful, and be aware of him, even if he is same age with you, even if he is 11, even if he doesn’t try to hurt you – you should be always ready for attack. 

Why was this Wall built? – To protect, to separate. During Intifada Israel was suffering of suicide killers attacks, people were afraid to go leave their houses, to go shopping, mothers were afraid to send their children to schools, husbands were nervous when their wives didn’t come home in time. Explosions in the bus stops, shopping malls, school busses, markets, in the streets, in the crowds, in the cross-roads. Israel economy was close to collapse, people were afraid to make investments, to open businesses, to start new enterprises. The only way to survive – was to separate.

But what made Palestinians to act this way?  According to the Balfour Declaration it was decided to establish home for Jewish people in the land of Palestine. In 1948 the state of Israel was established. The land of Palestine was separated into two parts – Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Later because of wars, Israel territory became bigger, wider, Jerusalem became a part of Israel and it’s capital. Actually capturing lands and territories during the wars was a part of historical formation of all countries in the world, but as a result of this formation – hundreds of thousands people became refugee and had to go to live to other countries – Jordan, Syria, Libya etc. They  have to stay in the countries that will never become their homes, have to grow their children up in refugee camps.
This people don’t have strong army, they don’t have tanks, but they have idea, they believe that their homeland is occupied. And the only way to liberate it – is to kill, to fight. And they found the only possible way to fight – suicide bombing.

People give different names to this action. Terrorism, guerilla war.  It is a war. It is a fight. Between two ideas and beliefs. More or less it was stopped by the separation Wall. But can this separation stop the idea? Can it stop the belief of people? Can this separation stop hatred and incomprehension between two nations?  Two people who are so similar to each other. People whose traditions are so close to each other? People, who are separated in the land that has such a loud name- the Holy Land.