Category: Journals
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“I pity you for having become murderers”
by Anna Baltzer, 5 May 2007 Five years ago, nine-month-old Mohammed and his grandmother were in their West Bank home when it began to fill with nerve gas from a nearby Israeli Occupation Forces military base. The Army had moved in on a hill near their home in the Skan Abu Absa suburb of Ramallah,…
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Denial of Dignity, Denial of Entry
Eccerpts from by Nadia’s journal 3 May 2007 What happened to me yesterday is something I couldn’t imagine possible, not because I didn’t think I could be refused entrance into Israel. There always was a possibility I would be interrogated, but not in the way they did. I landed in Tel Aviv at 7 am,…
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59 Years Ago: Deir Yassin
Remembering Deir Yassin by Anna Baltzer, 1 May 2007 Um El Fahim town in present-day Israel, home to 48,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel, mostly internal refugees denied services equal to Jews or the right to return to their homes. 59 years ago this month, the militant Zionist Irgun and Stern Gang systematically murdered more than…