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Levy: The Carpenter's Wife
Znet Article, October, 22 2005
Gideon Levy
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Why did Haifa Hindiya, a 38-year-old married woman and mother of five, stab a soldier at a checkpoint on the first day of the month of Ramadan? Was it because she was battered and humiliated by her husband, as her family claims? Or because she was...
Levy: They Broke The Public's Heart
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
Gideon Levy
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The media is to blame: For months, it portrayed the story of the "great sacrifice" the evacuated settlers must make. For years, it ignored the injustices they inflicted on their neighbors and thus helped portray the settlers in a false light. The ...
Levy: Erasing the Past in Israel
Znet Article, June, 05 2005
Gideon Levy
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This is the most Arab-free area in Israel. It was the scene of total ethnic cleansing, which left not a vestige apart from the heaps of ruins and the sabra bushes. On the coastal plain, between Jaffa and Gaza, not one Palestinian village remains i...
Levy: Good Morning To The Israeli Left
Znet Article, February, 16 2005
Gideon Levy
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Good morning to the Israeli left. After an eternally long hibernation, we are starting to hear the sounds of its awakening. Only when the wind is once again blowing in its direction - and not because of anything it did - does the extra-parliamenta...
Levy: Dear Soldier
Znet Article, December, 20 2004
Gideon Levy
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A.L., a paratrooper who is serving in Nablus, wrote to me in the wake of my article "Suffer the little children" (Ha'aretz Magazine, December 3). The article described how Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot four children in the Nablus casbah, kil...
Levy: Israel's War on Children
Znet Article, December, 07 2004
Gideon Levy
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In the present intifada, 323 Palestinian children under the age of 14 have been killed by IDF fire. Three recent examples from Nablus...Why waste ammunition? A few days ago, an Israel Defense Forces soldier fired at two boys in the casbah of Nablu...
Levy: The Dehumanization Campaign
Znet Article, October, 19 2004
Gideon Levy
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More than 30 Palestinian children were killed in the first two weeks of Operation Days of Penitence in the Gaza Strip. It's no wonder that many people term such wholesale killing of children "terror." Whereas in the overall count of all the victim...
Levy: Twilight Zone
Znet Article, October, 19 2004
Gideon Levy
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This one man embodies it all: Here you have the whole story of Palestinian suffering and struggle encapsulated in one person's biography. If it weren't a true story, one might suspect it was some sort of propaganda. Yusef al-Mughrabi, an amputee a...
Levy: It is a sick society that harasses, humiliates dying patients
Znet Article, September, 29 2004
Gideon Levy
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One out of every nine women gets breast cancer. There are doctors who say that statistic has worsened lately and now stands at one out of every eight. The disease is particularly violent in younger women and the primary growth in the breast spread...
Levy: The Beginning of the Start of the End of Occupation?
Znet Article, August, 31 2004
Gideon Levy
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How long can the costume ball go on? How long can we pretend the spit in our faces is rain? There are now signs that it can't go on forever - it is not the beginning of the end, but it looks like the beginning of the start of the end of the occupa...
Levy: Double Standards
Znet Article, July, 20 2004
Gideon Levy
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What would happen if a Palestinian terrorist were to detonate a bomb at the entrance to an apartment building in Israel and cause the death of an elderly man in a wheelchair, who would later be found buried under the rubble of the building? The co...
Levy: Compensate settlers for what?
Znet Article, June, 18 2004
Gideon Levy
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For what exactly should we be compensating the settlers who will be evacuated from Gaza? For the damage they caused the state for decades? For the scandalous economic price of their living in Gaza? For the blood needlessly spilled over them? Most ...
Levy: Twilight Zone
Znet Article, June, 07 2004
Gideon Levy
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One of the 120 homes demolished by the IDF in the Brazil refugee camp belonged to architect Manal Awad. This was the third time since 1948 that her family has been left homeless - and the second time that Ariel Sharon was responsible. ...
Levy: The Victory of Brutality
Znet Article, March, 14 2004
Gideon Levy
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A new species of officer is achieving greatness in the Israel Defense Forces. These people did most of their service as occupation officers, and their excellence is a function of the degree of violence and brutality they exercise against the Pales...
Levy: Twilight Zone, Fighting the Fence
Znet Article, March, 07 2004
Gideon Levy
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These were not rubber bullets. You don't have to be a ballistics expert to know that bullets that slice through a car, enter its flank, penetrate the upholstery and exit via the door are not rubber bullets. This is the red and white Ford Transit w...
Levy: Twilight Zone
Znet Article, February, 29 2004
Gideon Levy
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Sunday of this week was a freezing cold day in the northern West Bank. A vicious dry wind relentlessly lashed the faces of everyone who ventured outside. Hunched against the wind, a group of men sat on the muddy ground, at the edges of Hawara chec...
Levy: The aftermath of the Nablus invasion
Znet Article, January, 31 2004
Gideon Levy
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Nablus, West Bank - The knafeh here is still the best in the world, living up to its reputation. In the early evening, Abu Salha's pastry shop, by the side of the road that climbs to the Refidiya neighborhood, is deserted, the shelves almost empty...
Levy: The Heart Breaks
Znet Article, January, 24 2004
Gideon Levy
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Na'im Araj awakens every day at 4 A.M., leaves quietly by the glass door in the living room that leads directly to the cemetery, and goes to his son's grave, just to be with him. After sunrise, his brother comes and takes him, for his own sake, aw...
Levy: We Are All Soldiers at Checkpoints
Znet Article, January, 11 2004
Gideon Levy
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The terminology used to be routine and clear: Whenever a unit of the Israel Defense Forces completed a mission - be it the aerial bombing of refugee camps in Lebanon, shelling terrorist headquarters in Syria or attacking missile sites in Egypt - t...
Levy: The Price of Ignorance
Znet Article, January, 08 2004
Gideon Levy
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The suicide bomber at the Geha Junction, Shehad Hanani, was from Beit Furik, one of the most imprisoned villages in the territories that is surrounded by earth roadblocks on all sides. It's a place where women in labor and the sick have to risk wa...
