Report: My trip to Palestine

[mastermg]

I've been gone for like two months, was off for vacation in Palestine and Jordan. I came on here a few times while I was gone but didnt have time to look around. Theres like no internet there. One of the admins can verify this by looking at the Israhelli IP address.

Anyway, I took some photos and will be writing a report soon. For the photos, see here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29670947@N06/

This is the first part of my report. I have not finished it yet but you may read what I wrote so far. When I finish another section, I will update this thread. Thank you.


The First Checkpoint

It first started in the plane on my way to Amman, Jordan, which the country right east of Palestine. As we got near our destination, the microphone was turned on. "We are now directly over Israel. Everyone must take their seats. We will be passing through a checkpoint..." Wow. Can you believe it! We are going through a checkpoint in the air! Of course there were no retards in uniforms coming around looking at IDs like they do on land. However, the plane circled straight above Israel and then continued on to Jordan.


At The Border
From Jordan, we planned to cross the border into Palestinian Territory through the King Hussein Bridge. At the Jordanian borderline, they gave us no trouble crossing at all. We took the VIP bus that took us straight to the Israeli border control. From there, the trouble all started. We arrived there around 9:30 a.m. and were one of the first people to get there that morning. Then the questions begun, "Can I see your passport. Ok, what's your name? Your address? Etc." They then kept the passports and told us to wait while they do security checks on them. As we waited, some other border control officers came with a mandatory survey. "What's your full name? Your mother's name? What cities will you be visiting? Where will you stay at? What is the address of your destination? Who will you see (If you give them names, they will do research on them)? What is your purpose of this visit? Etc." I came with 5 other family members and they asked each one of us the same questions. Finally after three hours, the passports were returned to us, only to find mine missing. "Excuse me, I didn't receive my passport yet." "You have to wait," and off they went. Hour after hour passed and each hour I'd ask someone where my passport is and all they say is 'wait'. After six hours, I asked another officer and he asked how old I am. I told him my age and he said 'that's why, all young people between 17 and 30 have their passports sent out to a different location for security checks.' So I waited so more until near closing time. There I met Jose, a Spaniard going to Ramallah for a business trip. I found out he also stayed waiting for many hours while they held on to his passport. He told me how he knows why they keep us here for so long. He said it because of the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, that the Jews are doing. They hold on to all foreign passports (including American, which I have) so we decide not to return next time. He also said that because of this, he will always return to Ramallah just to piss the Jews off. After a while his passport was returned and the person working with the passports inside came out. I asked him for my passport and he said it was lost. He then went to my father (who was with me) and asked for his Palestinian residence ID. He told him that he doesn't have one. He said, "But weren't you born in Palestine?" My father said yes but he left 30 years ago and has an American passport. The Jew said "That's good for you. I hope all the Palestinians leave their land" and walked away. That dirty bastard. Shortly after, the boss of the whole border control came out and we told him that I didn't receive my passport yet. He said he will go look for it and went inside. After a total of 9 hours at the border-port, they handed my passport back without any "sorry" or any explanation to why they took so long and I left to find our bags. :evil:  


To be continued...

[joeblow]

First of all, ahlan wa sahlan akhi fii diin!

Now, that shitty mother-fucking cocksucking stupid little faggot ass passive-homosexual bitch will get his very soon. I love hearing about bullshit like this, it gives me a clear conscience when I fuck around with these little Talmudic Satanists in real life.

[Ognir]

Welcome back

[razorback2000]

Horrifying !  
Good testimony, hope you can tell us some more  :ugeek:

[mastermg]

Thanks all. I just added another section.

@Joeblowman- Allah yesalmak ya akhi.




IDs and Checkpoints

Everyone living in Palestine carries around an ID such as this one: http://www.freewebs.com/ashrafmis/Pales ... 0Hawya.jpg
On the ID, it contains the first name, father's name, grandfather's name, last name, mother's name, birthplace, and more. When passing through a checkpoint, the soldiers may ask to see your ID. They also usually have a list with them of some wanted people from Hamas or Fateh. These checkpoints are between every city and major location. Some of these checkpoints are more intense than others. These checkpoints also help divide the Palestinian territory in favor for Israel. For example, from where I stayed at, it used to take 10 mins by car to get to Nablus. Now, if you want to take your car inside Nablus, you will have to travel the mountains and get passed a less intense checkpoint, which took us an hour and a half to get there. That would be choice one. The second choice is to go through the 10 min path, park your car outside the city borders, go through airport security checkpoint, and pick up a taxi inside. In the checkpoint, you will usually find a long line of people waiting. Then you go through the spinning bars, give the soldier your ID or passport, walk through the metal detector, and you are off. Students at the Nablus University have to go through this checkpoint everyday twice. Besides this checkpoint, there are minor checkpoints before all Palestinian cities and major intersection.

[mastermg]

Heres pretty much the rest of it. Its brief so if you have any questions, please ask.

*Ive traveled to Nablus, Ramallah, and Jeruslaem. Of the three, the most oppressed I think are the Nablus residents. During the second intifada (uprising), they had curfews set on them for many days at a time.
*When I was in nablus, we stayed awake till 2 am to watch the Israeli hummers rush down the streets, looking for a specific person. The hummers travel every night.
*In the Aqsa mosque, they keep a collection of all the weapons used on the praying people. I took a picture of it. This includes tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets, and some other things I didn't recognize.
*When traveling on the main road, I saw settlers stealing Palestinian land. They set up a canopy, brought out a few chairs, and raised the Jewish flag.
*I talked to some women from the peace organization from the UK. They told me that they came to take photos of a nearby incident. Just uphill near my town, 3 Jewish settlers came to steal some farm land. Three owners came out to defend their piece. On seeing resistance, the Jewish settlers called for backup from the soldiers. The soldiers shot tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets and injured all three Palestinian farmers, 1 injured from the bullet and the other two injured from the chemicals in the tear gas.
*In Nablus, all the cars and buses were getting checked. There seems to have been an incident and the officers were looking for certain Hamas members. Traveling became an inconvienience because of these searches.