“Baboun says as mayor her job is to provide services and ‘lead life’ in Bethlehem. But she worries their current way of life will eventually be considered normal.
‘To live in a strangulated city, to live in a wall, is by itself an abnormal living, but I’m doing my best to help people feel the normality, help assist in projects,’ she says.
‘My fear is when the abnormal living that we live today is to be considered as normal.’

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/vera-baboun-making-life-normal-in-the-west-bank/7396518