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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: 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
