The Beautiful Game

Hey Ben

There's a tiny bit of land on the Palestinian side of that great big concrete wall you built on the edge of Bethlehem.  I don't expect you've ever noticed it (the tiny bit of land I mean).

It's covered in scruffy artificial turf, and every day kids from the nearby Aida refugee camp, boys and girls in their favourite teams' kit, come to play football there. 

Their football club means the world to them. It's on the boundary of their city, on their side of your huge concrete wall.

Yet you are saying the club has to be demolished, the turf dug up. The club owners must either demolish the pitch themselves or let you do it, after which they'll be sent  the bill.

Please. This tiny piece of land can't be any use to you.  You're just making a point.

The reprieve from demolition ran out yesterday.  Couldn't you find it in your heart to make one small gesture, at no cost to yourself ?

They're just kids.  They just want to play football.