However, Palestine is still not a formal member of the United Nations.
When Tel Aviv is hosting exclusive Chanel boutiques and Rolls-Royce dealerships and when luxury brand art fashion shows are in a drunken stupor on Fifth Avenue, just 60 kilometers away, the last thermal power plant has stopped functioning due to fuel depletion in an area surrounded by barbed wire.
There, more than half of the population lives in refugee camps, with only a handful allowed by the Israeli government to step outside the walls each year, earning it the name of the world's largest open-air prison.
And before 2005, within the isolated zone of the Gaza Strip, there were several reverse-isolated Israeli settlement points.
Thus.
Like onions.
The walls layer upon layer, people looking from one isolated zone into another, gazing across one barbed wire to another barbed wire.
It's like an endless cycle of history.
