The goals we set for ourselves during this shift were:
1. Meeting with the head of the village of Burin, which had been co-ordinated a week earlier for the hour of 4 PM, after he returns from his daily work. During the week, the connection didn't work, in spite of telephone calls and messages which were sent. When we arrived at the city hall, it turned out that he had to travel to Ramallah. Maybe the confusion was deliberate. A day later, an article appeared in the HaAretz weekly magazine about the digital control in the occupied territories.
2. A meeting was planned in Madama with the head of the village. A week earlier, a flash drive had been given to him so that he could copy films and photos of the attacks of settlers from Itzhar on a farmer from Madama on 3.1.16. Also this time, disappointment: the man for whom we were looking was not at home.
3. A visit to historic holy graves which are found within the village of Awarta and suffer from the "Hillulot" celebrations of the Itamar settlers. Walter Benjamin wrote about such a thing: "Also the booty which is displayed in victory processions is called 'cultural property'."
A historical map which shows the grave of the Sheikh Mufadi clearly
Israeli map, from "mapa", showing how the graves turned to be Jewish
This is today's appearance of the grave of the "70 Elders" which is in Yitzchak Danziger's book from 1982, appearing as the grave of the Sheikh Mufadi.
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The youth leader in Itamar said, in 2012: "There will be a change only when it is confirmed that the whole land is ours and that the non-Jewish inhabitants will live under our rule."
At the exit from Awarta, in the direction of Huwarra, near the entrance to Huwarra, there was a double blockade made of sand. We were forced to travel on a different route that goes through the village of Beita and made the trip much longer.
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Double sand blockade on the way to Huwarra.
A partial blockade at the exit from Beita, in the direction of Huwarra, because of work on the road; manned by soldiers.
Map detailing the detour which we were forced to make because of the blockade next to Huwarra.
On the way back, on highway #5, we passed the industrial zone of Barkan where there used to be a waterfall of sewage but today this is concentrated into a pipe which descends from the cliff. Further down along the canal, on the side of the road, the sewage streams very violently as it comes out of the pipe..
