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A farmer from a town in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the building of Israel's controversial parting wall, asked Israeli man rights lawyer Michael Sfard to petition the courts to allow a gate to be built in the wall. As the gate would provide immediate pain relief for the farmer, wouldn't it also confer legitimacy on the wall and on the courtroom that deems it legal? The security of human privileges is often proclaimed by such moral dilemmas, which are specially severe in Israel, where legal representatives have for many years looked for redress for the abuse of Palestinian privileges in the country's High Courtroom - that is, in the courtroom of the abuser. In The Wall and the Gate, Michael Sfard chronicles this struggle - a tale that hasn't before been totally advised - and along the way engages the core principles of individuals privileges legal ethics. Sfard recounts the unfolding of key situations and issues, which range from confiscation of land, deportations, the creation of settlements, punitive home demolitions, torture, and targeted killings - all actions considered violations of international legislations. In the process, he lays bare the truth of the job and the lives of the people who must cope with that reality.
