Hundreds of Palestinian refugees are currently in the same situation, along Iraq's western borders, living in tents.
"Ateret Cohanim believes in coexistence with Christians and Muslims alike, living side by side without fences or borders, living in any neighbourhood of Jerusalem," he said.
But consider the facts: The Palestinians were arguing for the creation of a Palestinian state based on the June 4 , 1967 borders, living alongside Israel.
Sitting among the 125 elated, exhausted candidates from 40 countries, I thought about all they had gone through to get to this day: leaving home, crossing oceans or borders, living for so long in some anxious half-way status.
The galleries unfold according to the floor plan of a typical villa, and the installation — which includes decorative columns, wall borders, living plants and reproductions of mosaics — works hard to maintain the illusion of classical architecture.
(He once ordered his Defense Minister to send Venezuelan forces to the Colombian border live on "Aló Presidente").
Today, the people of Marjayoun, trapped in the far southeast corner of Lebanon within sight of the Israeli border, live in the remains of what was once a bustling trading town.
Whole swaths of the country — the states of Michoacan and Tamaulipas, the cities along the U.S. border — live by the rules of cartels that now do far more than transport drugs.
Thousands of people escaping airstrikes near the Turkey/Syria border live in dilapidated buildings scattered around the city without food, heating, or water.
"Border Realities, Part Two, 1986," as the exhibition is titled, focuses on the unease with which the populations on either side of the Mexican-American border live with one another.
