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Middle East conference - Ayman
I don't think the November conference will bring what we are all waiting for: peace and a Palestinian state.

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Ayman Abu Alzulof
Name: Ayman Abu Alzulof
Age: 38
Lives: Beit Sahour, West Bank
Works: Tour Guide

It will just be a talking shop.

We already have clear-cut United Nations decisions on the important issues - we should return to them.

We are totally surrounded by settlements in Bethlehem. The wall has really increased the land taken by the settlements.

To travel from Bethlehem to Ramallah, Hebron or Nablus - it's complicated because every road is controlled by the Israelis.

Every journey you make, you pass settlements, you cross checkpoints.

In the past seven years, I've been to Hebron ten times, to Ramallah four times, and to Nablus just once. And I've been to Europe more than 20 times. That's how difficult it is.

And of course, the Israelis are accelerating their settlement-building. My house is not far from [the settlement at] Har Homa. Sometimes you hear the bulldozers working in the evening.

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Har Homa was beautiful, I remember picnicking there with my family. Now it's an ugly artificial settlement. It hurts a lot to see it. And they are still building.

It's like a war against our memory. They are making us forget the landscape.

Palestinians cannot make concessions; we have nothing to concede. We are occupied.






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