Category: In the Media
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Archbishop Tutu to Haaretz: Arabs paying for Germany’s crimes
Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 28 August 2009 “The lesson that Israel must learn from the Holocaust is that it can never get security through fences, walls and guns,” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa told Haaretz Thursday. Commenting on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement in Germany Thursday that the lesson of the Holocaust is…
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Evicted Palestinians camp by home taken by settlers
Jihan Abdalla | The Washington Post 25 August 2009 Fresh dates and chicken soup were served up at dusk on the sidewalk in the well-heeled suburb of Sheik Jarrah this week, as the evicted Palestinian al-Ghawi family spent another night camped outside their former home. Their stone house in Arab east Jerusalem, in a district…
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How settlements in the West Bank are creating a new reality, brick by brick
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 24 August 2009 There is a hilltop east of Jerusalem with striking views down into Jericho, across the dry slopes of the West Bank and on to the Dead Sea. From the red ochre of the rock came the name Ma’ale Adumim, Hebrew for the Red Ascent. Today it is…