Qalandiya
Three stupid questions:
1. Why is it necessary to waste half an hour to go through the checkpoint during the afternoon when it isn’t crowded and be sent from one lane to a second and a third, and why, even if one removes the belt and shoes and empties the pockets in advance, it still takes half an hour.
2. Why can’t a handicapped woman go through the checkpoint in her wheelchair and must stumble on legs that don’t really function properly through the metal barriers and place the crutch that supports her on the metal detector’s conveyor belt, while the man accompanying her folds the wheelchair and slides it through the revolving gate?
3. Why, instead of removing the garbage, is it burned, and the black, thick, rising smoke spreads and chokes people and makes it hard for them to breathe?
