Darkness at the end of the tunnel By Lily Galili <mailto:lilygalili at haaretz.co.il> Under a wall separating their neighborhoods in Ramle, Arab and Jewish children dug a passageway that enabled them to play together. Then the municipality came along and blocked it
A while ago, Nawal Abu Amar, the principal of the Juwarish School in Ramle, a mixed Arab and Jewish town inside the Green Line, told the following story: Along part of the fence that separates the Arab Juwarish neighborhood from the Jewish Ganei Dan neighborhood there is a small playground on the Jewish side. Entrance to it is possible only from the direction of the Jewish neighborhood; the wall blocks it off from the Arab neighborhood. From time to time older Arab children leap over the wall. The little ones found a different solution. The voices of the Jewish children playing on the seesaw and the carousel on other side of the wall attracted them. With the inventiveness of children, perhaps on the basis of knowledge that was acquired from similar adult scenes on television, they set out on their mission: Quietly and patiently, they dug small tunnels in the ground under the wall....
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