Category: In the Media
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Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone / Deer hunters
By Gideon Levy Dec. 30 After a night of rain, the sun broke through the clouds. Two brothers and their brother-in-law decided to go for a hike in the wild, through the spectacular valley of olive trees, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Around midday they suddenly noticed a herd of deer descending pell-mell…
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New Statesman: The grim reality in Gaza
By: Mohammed Omer 10 December 2007 Traffic in the Gaza Strip slowed to a trickle last week, and this week medical centres have scaled back treatment in the medicines and sustenance-destitute Strip. “Israel’s decision is a death penalty: our reserve of fuel is almost zero and it may very likely run out by the end…
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On the Twentieth Anniversary of the First Intifada
Click here for the original article The first Intifada began in a piecemeal fashion with demonstrations and civil disobedience sparked by an increasing number of shootings and human rights abuses by the Israeli occupation. The Intifada marked an end to passive resistance The grassroots protests of 1987 escalated into full-blown riots involving much of civil…