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Znet Article Hass: Missing the government of thieves

Znet Article, September, 28 2006 Amira Hass
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Slogans shouted at rallies sound better when they rhyme. "Not Ismail, not Haniyeh, we want back the government of haramiyeh." Haramiyeh means thieves, and the protesters in Ramallah - Palestinian Authority workers who have not received their sal...

Znet Article Hass: In the name of security, but not for its sake

Znet Article, September, 22 2006 Amira Hass
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Six Palestinian churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip suffered damage and arson attempts in reaction to the words of Pope Benedict XVI. Palestinian spokesmen of all stripes condemned these attacks and said that the Palestinian nation - Christia...

Znet Article Hass: Can You Really Not See?

Znet Article, September, 02 2006 Amira Hass
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Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commander...

Znet Article Hass: Nasrallah Didn't Mean To

Znet Article, August, 20 2006 Amira Hass
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During the past month, Hezbollah's Katyushas killed 18 Israeli Arabs among the 41 Israeli civilians who died in the war. Clearly, Hassan Nasrallah didn't mean to kill them. But as someone who knows that many Arabs live in northern Israel, and as s...

Znet Article Hass: Their Power Of Endurance

Znet Article, August, 11 2006 Amira Hass
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Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station would dismiss as feminine and sentimental the view that peoples don't win wars. Like other Arab analysts, they regard attacking Israeli civilians and engaging the IDF in fierce battles as an Arab victory. Bu...

Znet Article Hass: Hungry And Shell-Shocked

Znet Article, April, 27 2006 Amira Hass
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Gaza - Where will the next blow land? That is the question. Not if it will come, but rather when, and on whom will it land, and what kind will it be? Five-year-old L. believes the solution is to sleep every night in his parents' bed, and in that ...

Znet Article Hass: The Uber-Wardens

Znet Article, April, 13 2006 Amira Hass
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Two weeks ago, on Election Day, at 8 A.M., drivers wishing to leave Tul Karm from the eastern exit (toward Anabta) discovered that their permits were invalid. A soldier at the checkpoint, who prevented the passage of the drivers, apologized: Today...

Znet Article Hass: Playing Two Different Games

Znet Article, March, 17 2006 Amira Hass
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The Palestinians are busy forming a government. It is too early to say how the events in Jericho will affect its composition, but what in the past was an internal game of musical chairs among Fatah and its satellites - a competition over personal ...

Znet Article Hass: A Cruel Equation

Znet Article, March, 06 2006 Amira Hass
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"Now everything depends on your will and your decision. If you want to study for a doctorate in Haifa .... that's where you will study, under my guidance," Anna Sfard, a professor of mathematics education, told a student who had just completed his...

Znet Article Hass: A Nation Of Beggars

Znet Article, March, 03 2006 Amira Hass
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It is not the Palestinians who should be welcoming the European Union's decision to hastily donate another $142 million before the Hamas government is formed. It is Israel that ought to be pleased that the Western states will continue compensating...

Znet Article Hass: Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 Amira Hass
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It is evidently difficult to scrub off the sticker that is glued onto the front window. That's why when a new car from Germany or South Korea or the United States rolls onto the packed streets of Gaza or Ramallah, it generally has the big label wi...

Znet Article Hass: Israel cuts Jordan Rift from rest of West Bank

Znet Article, February, 16 2006 Amira Hass
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While the international community busied itself with the disengagement from the Gaza Strip last summer, Israel completed another cut-off process, which went unnoticed; In 2005, Israel completed a process of sealing off the eastern sector of the We...

Znet Article Hass: Revenge Is The Word In The Background

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 Amira Hass
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The young woman who came into the corner grocery in the Jenin refugee camp did not hide her hostility when told there was an Israeli guest. It seemed that it was even difficult for her to sit in the same room as the guest, whom the grocer honored ...

Znet Article Hass: The border of the state of Ramallah

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Amira Hass
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In contrast to the "big bangs," or the election of MK Amir Peretz as Labor Party chairman and the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from the Likud, the establishment of the southern border of the state of Ramallah is happening with nary a...

Znet Article Hass: The Frog Is Exhausted

Znet Article, November, 17 2005 Amira Hass
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If you throw a frog into boiling water, it will jump out and save its life. But a frog swimming in room temperature water that is gradually heated will grow used to the heat; by the time the water boils, it's too late and the frog dies. That's ano...

Znet Article Hass: Broken Bones And Broken Hopes

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Amira Hass
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For Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin is remembered first of all as someone who instructed soldiers to break their arms and legs, when they began their popular uprising against the Israeli occupation in 1987. Before the handshake on the White House law...

Znet Article Hass: New checkpoint to sever W. Bank south of Nablus

Znet Article, October, 30 2005 Amira Hass
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The Israel Defense Forces has been constructing a major new checkpoint south of Nablus, at the Zaatara (Tapuah) junction, for checking Palestinian cars arriving from the northern and western parts of the West Bank. The checkpoint was decided upon...

Znet Article Hass: Gaza After The Pullout

Znet Article, October, 12 2005 Amira Hass
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Salah Wared is a Palestinian who was born in Yemen and arrived with his family in Gaza as part of the Oslo Accords in 1994, when he was 9 years old. He lived in Gaza for two years and then moved to Jenin in the West Bank. In 1999, the Palestinian ...

Znet Article Hass: Workers of Gaza unite!

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Amira Hass
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Another demand was added last week to the list of demands of the Independent Workers Committees in Gaza, which they have been presenting in the past few months to institutions of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership. The new demand is the ...

Znet Article Hass: Gazans Celebrate Freedom Of Movement

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Amira Hass
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The joy of liberation was felt first and foremost yesterday, and with more intensity than anyone else, by the thousands of Gazans whose lives had been totally disrupted and who had been just plain imprisoned in their homes and neighborhoods by the...

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