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Hass: Instead of Auschwitz
Znet Article, December, 11 2008
Amira Hass
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Some suggestions for the Committee to Free Gilad Shalit.
Hass: Is Israel deliberately strengthening Hamas?
Znet Article, November, 17 2008
Amira Hass
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Let's not be dragged into calculating how many tons of rice, flour and cooking oil there are in the Gaza Strip 10 days after Israel once again hermetically sealed all the crossings into the enclave. Let's not count the number of children who wait ...
Hass: West Bank And Gaza, Fatah And Hamas
Znet Article, October, 05 2008
Amira Hass
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Fathiya Barghouti, the mayor of Qarawat Bani Zeid, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, has to lie every time she submits the draft budget to the ministry for local government - under the law, it cannot be approved if it shows a deficit. She is not...
Hass: The god of big things
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Amira Hass
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A month ago, as she faced a roomful of journalists in Italy, writer Arundhati Roy was asked what it is like to be an icon of peace-seekers around the world. "First of all," she advised her audience, "always be suspicious of icons." And indeed she ...
Hass: The PA's hollow protests
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
Amira Hass
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Senior Palestinian Authority officials can justifiably say that settlement construction continues despite everyone's protests and condemnations - not only theirs. Europe is protesting, Peace Now is protesting, the United Nations is protesting and ...
Hass: Our Violent Presence
Znet Article, February, 18 2008
Amira Hass
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There is no Israeli whose presence in the West Bank is neutral. Civilian or armed, soldier or woman settler, resident of a quality-of-life settlement or a nearby outpost, MahsomWatch activist or guest at a settlement, Bezek worker or client at a P...
Hass: Democratic Suspicion
Znet Article, February, 06 2008
Amira Hass
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A public sector strike in Palestine reveals both the power of the collective and suspicions as to the motives of the leading class.
Hass: Finally, a popular uprising
Znet Article, January, 30 2008
Amira Hass
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The fall of the Rafah wall was a fitting combination of planning and the precise reading of the social and political map by the Hamas government, mixed with a mass response to the dictates of the overlord, Israel.
Hass: They neither see nor remember
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Amira Hass
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The bankruptcy of Israel's policy of military escalation.
Hass: A Thorn in the Shin Bet's Side
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
Amira Hass
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About a month ago, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti was invited to the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem to receive a citation of honor from the government of Italy. The consulate submitted requests to the Israeli authorities for 15 entry permits to Jerusalem, ...
Hass: The right to explode in anger
Znet Article, December, 28 2007
Amira Hass
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The negotiations over the future of our land, from the sea to the river, and the two peoples living in it, are proceeding along two parallel channels. It has been that way since the Madrid and Oslo talks for 17 years now. One channel is between th...
Hass: Two non-states
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Amira Hass
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Who says there is no cooperation between the Palestinian Authority/Fatah and Hamas? Indeed, ever since June the two sides have been working energetically, in a kind of pas de deux of demonstrative pirouettes, so that the Gaza Strip will become ano...
Hass: Israel Has Turned The Gaza Strip Into A Zoo
Znet Article, October, 16 2007
Amira Hass
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A zoo. This is one of the ways that Palestinians describe the conditions under which nearly 1.5 million of them have been living: in an area of some 360 square kilometers, closed in on three sides by sophisticated barbed-wire fences, concrete wall...
Hass: Back to a corrupt occupation
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Amira Hass
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In one of the alarming news items of the past week, it was reported that Israel has green-lighted the transfer of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the security forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. This is not the first time Isr...
Hass: Words instead of actions
Znet Article, May, 21 2007
Amira Hass
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Words instead of actions
Hass: The Holocaust as political asset
Znet Article, April, 29 2007
Amira Hass
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The cynicism inherent in the attitude of the institutions of the Jewish state to Holocaust survivors is not a revelation to those born and living among them. We grew up with the yawning gap between the presentation of the State of Israel as the pl...
Hass: Not only the right to worship is sacred
Znet Article, October, 26 2006
Amira Hass
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On Fridays of the month of Ramadan, the Palestinians once again proved the extent to which they ...
Hass: Even Palestinian-Americans are being turned back at the border
Znet Article, October, 21 2006
Amira Hass
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During the summer months, the city was "empty," according to people in Ramallah and the neighboring city of El Bireh. Residents of both cities, as well as of the surrounding villages, employed this hyperbole to express the extent to which they fel...
Hass: What are 20 tons of explosives?
Znet Article, October, 20 2006
Amira Hass
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Hamas has smuggled 20 tons of explosives into the Gaza Strip, and that is aside from the anti-aircraft and antitank missiles. That is what the Israel Defense Forces has calculated, and it made sure to pump this frightening information into the Isr...
Hass: Not an internal Palestinian matter
Znet Article, October, 14 2006
Amira Hass
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The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called `what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens.` The...
