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If you want to stay unmoved about this occupation, don't go to the Jordan valley, don't hear stories of Palestinian herders struggling to live in the desert amid a million restrictions - thanks to the Oslo accords - they can't build, they can't dig more than a 100 meters, don't see huge expanses of land, their land, cordoned off, so it can be used for military practice, rifle practice, god know what practice, don't see see huge patches of dried yellow landscape on one side and lush green date palms of settlements on the other side, don't listen to stories of water being siphoned straight into settlements past homes of herders who hear the water flowing but are not allowed to get to it; don't hear about grass being poisoned so cattle die, or fields being burned so cattle can't graze. don't hear about bull dozers razing villages to the ground. don't hear stories of their own administrative authority not supporting them, don't look into their eyes, don't feel the heat descending like war onto the land and don't wonder how anyone can deny anyone else water in the desert. Just don't.

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