Friday, April 6, 2012

TIMESCAPE


More than half a generation ago, a scattered group of expatriates got together to celebrate the birth  of a new century in a finely built house locataed on the  edge of Ramallah.
Now, the celebrants are dispersed to far corners of the globe. . . . and the house has a new purpose . . . as headquaters for the European Police Mission – providing training and oversight to the Palestinan Police Corps. 
And  a new neighbourhood is growing fast and growing big all around it – as a tide of development sweeps westward from Ramallah. 

 And encroaches on what was once the biggest building on the hill.
 On an adjacent hill  a cultural center has been built by an international donor agency.

 And another Palestinian Government Centre is under construction nearby – this time funded by Canadian International aid.

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