07 Nov Tear down that wall – updated with feedback

The New York Times website offers a series of five interactive images today showing scenes along the Berlin Wall around 1989, and the same scenes today. The screen shot here, showing Ebertstrasse, a street that runs from the Brandenburg Gate to Potsdamer Platz, is static, but on the Times’ site it shifts from before to after as you slide your cursor left and right.

Contrarian reader Judy Haiven thinks it’s time we turned out attention to another wall:

The Berlin wall is down, but Israel’s wall is up, and divides family from family, people from their work or school or from their own farmland. The wall has barbed wire in parts and otherwise it’s 30 feet high — higher than the Berlin wall — plus armed IDF soldiers in watchtowers. Israel built it not on Israel’s land, but on the Palestinians’ land.