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Znet Article Hass: The Settlers Are Gone, The Polluted Water Remains

Znet Article, August, 26 2005 Amira Hass
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On the eve of the evacuation of settlements from the Gaza Strip, two assumptions relating to water sources took wing among Palestinians. The first: behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to leave the Strip lies the fact that the supply of p...

Znet Article Hass: The Remaining 99.5 Percent

Znet Article, August, 24 2005 Amira Hass
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"I want to ask you as a Jew to a Jewess," the young man said a few days ago. In these days, a beginning such as this invites a dialogue of the kind in which we have been drowning for several weeks now - a dialogue in which the definition "Jew" has...

Znet Article Hass: Rosy Memories Of The White City

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Amira Hass
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The eyes grow a bit hooded, a faint smile passes across the lips, sometimes even accompanied by a sigh. "Ah, Tel Aviv." This is the almost uniform reaction of Gazans aged 35 and above when they discover that their interlocutor is an Israeli. Some ...

Znet Article Hass: No Compensation

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Amira Hass
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Today is Omar's last day of work for his employer in one of the religious settlements of Gush Katif. He will finish what he began a week ago: packing up the contents of the house and dismantling whatever can be dismantled. "I asked my boss if he w...

Znet Article Hass: There's A Settler In Every Israeli

Znet Article, July, 12 2005 Amira Hass
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The hunting season is at its height, and the settlers are the prey. They have become a target for criticism in the media to an extent whose like is hard to remember. They are criticized for sending their children to block roads, for hitting and cu...

Znet Article Hass: Using The Holocaust To Ward Off Criticism

Znet Article, March, 25 2005 Amira Hass
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The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel's position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home country of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usua...

Znet Article Hass: Using The Holocaust To Ward Off Criticism

Znet Article, March, 21 2005 Amira Hass
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The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel's position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home country of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usua...

Znet Article Hass: Olso All Over Again It's Not the State; It's the Liberation

Znet Article, March, 04 2005 Amira Hass
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The excitement that accompanied the rejection of the original composition of the Palestinian government by the Palestinian Legislative Council last week blurred the fact that there was no debate about the purpose of the new Palestinian government....

Znet Article Hass: Closing Gaza's Already Closed Checkpoints

Znet Article, January, 25 2005 Amira Hass
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Closing Gaza's Already Closed Checkpoints

Znet Article Hass: Is Everything Arafat's Fault?

Znet Article, November, 09 2004 Amira Hass
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The mothers who came to the military court at Salem on Sunday were seated five to six meters away from their sons on the defendants' bench. It was impossible not to hear their shouted conversations. After they informed their sons about who had sen...

Znet Article Hass: Harassment As Military Duty

Znet Article, October, 21 2004 Amira Hass
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Every day soldiers confiscate the identity cards of West Bank Palestinians even though this is prohibited by the law - even by military orders, except under very specific conditions. It looks like a concentrated mass violation of army instructions...

Znet Article Hass: What would Israel do without UNRWA?

Znet Article, October, 06 2004 Amira Hass
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Peter Hansen, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency in the territories, is being persecuted for having spoken the truth: Members of Hamas work in UNRWA. The Canadian Foreign Affairs Department is concerned and the Israeli Fore...

Znet Article Hass: Kill a Turk and Rest

Znet Article, October, 01 2004 Amira Hass
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"Kill a Turk and rest" - a popular Israeli saying meaning "don't rush" - is not only a statement of doubtful political correctness. It is also the middle of a Jewish joke. But only the middle. In Israel it has a separate existence, which distorts ...

Znet Article Hass: Still The Occupation

Znet Article, September, 23 2004 Amira Hass
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The screaming and shouting by opponents of disengagement and the settlement lobby is creating an image of the prime minister being a man of the political center. Their threats and accusations are painting him with the colors of a persecuted peacem...

Znet Article Hass: Gandhi's Grandson To Kick Off Unarmed Palestinian Campaign

Znet Article, August, 15 2004 Amira Hass
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The grandson of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, is to kick off a Palestinian campaign for an unarmed, popular struggle against the Israeli occupation. The campaign is being organized by a group of Palestinian social and politi...

Znet Article Hass: Anarchy, Not Chaos in the West Bank

Znet Article, August, 14 2004 Amira Hass
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There's no theft in Nablus. Maybe here and there, but it's not a phenomenon. About half the residents of the town have been impoverished by the tough closure, and the classic tension between the refugee camps has intensified. Anyone coming to th...

Znet Article Hass: Monitoring Power

Znet Article, June, 30 2004 Amira Hass
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Israeli journalist Amira Hass, author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza, has reported regularly from Gaza and Ramallah, where she lived among local people. Amira has recieved the fist Anna Lind Award, in honour of the murdered Swedish foreign minister. ...

Znet Article Hass: Rafah Reports

Znet Article, May, 24 2004 Amira Hass
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Two to a box (May 20, 2004) RAFAH - Suddenly there was a shout from outside: "Leave everything. The Jews have fired missiles at the demonstration. Lots of casualties. Send ambulances." The man shouting ran into the small hut in the hospital's yar...

Znet Article Hass: Gazans Pile Up Their Belongings And Flee

Znet Article, May, 18 2004 Amira Hass
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Rafah - The streets of Rafah were filled yesterday evening with horse-drawn carts, trucks and pick-ups, all laden to the brim with any and every item that the town's residents could remove from their homes - mattresses, water tanks taken down from...

Znet Article Hass: Silence in the Courtroom

Znet Article, May, 12 2004 Amira Hass
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Palestinian detainees who tried to greet their families in a military courtroom were set upon and beaten by police guards, their lawyers say. Here is their testimony The lawyers who were sitting in the waiting room at the Military Court at the O...

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