Scaling the Wall in Ramallah
One of the hot-button issues in recent years between Israelis and Palestinians has been the wall separating Israel from the West Bank. In some places it’s quite an imposing structure, so it’s interesting to see a start-up company that can pretty much pretend like the wall’s not there, launching an Israeli-Palestinian joint venture.
The company is called Ghost, or actually G.ho.st, an acronym that stands for Global Hosted Operating System, and has offices in both Ramallah and the Israeli town of Modin.
Along with producer Ibrahim Hazboun and cameraman Chris Jackson, I visited both sides of the barrier to talk with the Ghosts. It’s not so much that they’re scaling the wall in Ramallah; they’re just passing right through it.
Here’s a video and a few photos from Ramallah:
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@Greg Burke
Appears to be some problem with the video linkage. I tested another video on another “on the scene” ‘blog and it functioned, so the problem is likely on the post here.
I look forward to seeing the video later. Thank you.
If you want to know how it feels to work at G.ho.st, check out my blog:
http://antonbar.blogspot.com/2008/06/working-in-israeli-palestinian-startup.html