New York Times · 4 November 1992
CP-1992-018
The Difference a Line Makes
Transcribed from the clipping
“The international frontier that once separated Israel from the West Bank cut Bartaa in two, following a valley that runs through its heart.
When Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, the villagers were reunited, but the road that links Bartaa’s two sides is a passage between contrasts… We’ve invited journalists, Parliament members and international or… should stay in Israel. They say we should be part of the Palestinian state.”
Context added by this archive
Bartaa, a village cut in half by the armistice line in 1949 and rejoined in 1967, with the two halves disagreeing about which state they want to be in. A microcosm, the paper says, of the relationship between Israeli Arabs and their Palestinian kin.
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"The Difference a Line Makes," New York Times, 4 November 1992. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1992-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1992-018
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