A wall runs through it: Jerusalem and the West Bank  Online
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Our guest blogger living in Israel has settled in, but the view
of the wall separating Jerusalem and the West Bank unsettles
her.   By Guest Blogger Cathleen Chopra-McGowan   There is a
wall, and its the meanest wall of all, A wall of fear: holds
danger out, desire in. A wall that bristles each time The warden
brings back tales, Inside we're starving to buy the bricks To
build the cells, To bury love, to bar the door, to ban the
stranger...  Every time I walk up the beautiful, wide staircase
at the Hebrew University, I pause for a few minutes on one of
the landings to look out at the view. It is magnificent. Towards
the right, the desert looms in the distance, a vast expanse of
rolling dunes as far as the eye can see. Desert  But that view
is not what makes me pause. Closer, houses and buildings cluster
together, teeming with hundreds and hundreds of people. I pause
to look at the wall th