City of fear

‘A few days ago, I was driving through Qalandiya checkpoint for the first time since I came back to Jerusalem.
My dad, sitting next to me, had to yell “stop here!” at me as I was queuing behind a car at the checkpoint. “You’re too close,” he said, “stop and wait for them to call you, otherwise they’ll shoot you and not even care.”
When I left here to begin my life as a university student four years ago, and despite my sense of general optimism, I never really believed that I would come back to a better and more hopeful Jerusalem.’
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