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Znet Article Levy: "I punched an Arab in the face"

Znet Article, November, 27 2003 Gideon Levy
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Staff Sergeant (res.) Liran Ron Furer cannot just routinely get on with his life anymore. He is haunted by images from his three years of military service in Gaza and the thought that this could be a syndrome afflicting everyone who serves at chec...

Znet Article Levy: The IDF's daily chorus of incitement

Znet Article, October, 31 2003 Gideon Levy
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Who told the director of Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze'evi (Farkash) to declare, "Better Palestinian mothers should cry and not Jewish mothers"? Is the head of army intelligence now also to be in charge of setting Israel's moral p...

Znet Article Levy: A Shrinking Prison

Znet Article, October, 13 2003 Gideon Levy
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Last Wednesday, Hoda Shadub, a woman of about 50, wanted to go home after having eye surgery at an East Jerusalem hospital. She waited for hours at the Hawara checkpoint, which blocks access to her city, Nablus, but the soldiers refused to let her...

Znet Article Levy: No End in Sight

Znet Article, September, 18 2003 Gideon Levy
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Jon Elmer, FromOccupiedPalestine.org: I have just returned from, Muqata, Arafat’s compound in Ramallah. When I spoke with people on the street who had come to express their solidarity with the besieged leader, they were unanimous in their ...

Znet Article Levy: The Nightmare Continues in Palestine

Znet Article, August, 23 2003 Gideon Levy
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TEL AVIV-Israel's contact with the next generation of Palestinians-those who grew up under the occupation-and its attempts to achieve peace with them, will be far more problematic than with the generation that preceded it. This is something we nee...

Znet Article Levy: End the Phony Evacuations

Znet Article, June, 23 2003 Gideon Levy
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The operation to evacuate the West Bank outposts undertaken by Ariel Sharon's government is a farce that is bad for the peace process. It would be better to stop this charade as soon as possible, because its damage is immeasurably greater than any...

Znet Article Levy: 'Sniffing out Arabs'

Znet Article, May, 26 2003 Gideon Levy
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Shock is the proper reaction to the remark of cabinet Minister Gideon Ezra, who explained last week that Arabs should be used as security guards in Israel because only they have "the sense of smell needed to smell other Arabs, more so than guards ...

Znet Article Levy: Apartheid Wall

Znet Article, May, 03 2003 Gideon Levy
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For the Israelis it is a "separation fence," for the Palestinians - an "apartheid wall." For the Israelis it is an ideal, for the Palestinians an existential threat. For most Israelis it is a magic solution to the dread of terrorism. For the Pales...

Znet Article Levy: The Occupation is Us

Znet Article, April, 27 2003 Gideon Levy
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For a change, here's some good news from the occupied territory: on the eve of the holiday, people from the Nature and National Parks Authority moved some Gilboa irises growing along the route of the separation fence. The rescue operation certainl...

Znet Article Levy: America is no role model

Znet Article, April, 13 2003 Gideon Levy
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Those who trample human rights in Israel are having a field day: Look at the behavior of the Americans in Iraq, they say. Every time troops open fire at a checkpoint, every killing of a civilian, every picture of siege and plight, leads to merrime...

Znet Article Levy: Twilight Zone/ In The Line Of Duty

Znet Article, March, 03 2003 Gideon Levy
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Whenever they hear the sound of the IDF's war machine approaching, the medical teams in Gaza get into their ambulances and head out into the field. On the night shift of the Palestinian police clinic in the northern Gaza Strip, a team made up of t...

Znet Article Levy: Only Sderot. Only us.

Znet Article, February, 24 2003 Gideon Levy
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These are the names: Al'a Hilo, 23, and his brother Said, 28; Tamer Qata, 27; Amar al-Dayeh, 19; Abd al-Karim Bakroun, 25; Mohammed Salhoub, 27; Abd al-Rahman Kassam, 26; Munzar Safadi, 27; Ali Abu al-Hir, 30; Iyad Abaed, 27; and Abd al-Rahim Abu ...

Znet Article Levy: Deafening Silence in Israel

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Gideon Levy
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The United States is poised to go to war within missile's throw of our homes, but no public discussion is taking place in this country, either about the necessity for a military campaign or its rightness. From one end of the world to the other peo...

Znet Article Levy: The Idf's 'permissiveness' In The Territories

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Gideon Levy
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A war in Iraq will soon break out, and with it a great darkness will descend on events in the territories. As long as what goes on there doesn't affect the war's execution, no one in the world will take an interest, no one will so much as cast a g...

Znet Article Levy: As Ramon Was Launched Into Space

Znet Article, January, 19 2003 Gideon Levy
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As the first Israeli astronaut took off into space, tens of thousands of Palestinians, among them sick people, children and elderly people, tried to get from their villages to a nearby city. As Ramon's satellite entered its orbit around the earth,...

Znet Article Levy: Eyeless In Israel

Znet Article, December, 15 2002 Gideon Levy
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Is it too much to ask Israelis to take a look, even a glimpse, at what's going on in their backyard? Are we even capable of dropping our relentless preoccupation with primaries and the battle between Tnuva and Strauss over cottage cheese, to pay a...

Znet Article Levy: Wanted Men

Znet Article, November, 10 2002 Gideon Levy
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At 11 in the morning last Monday, at the exit from Jenin, IDF soldiers detained two dialysis patients, one a double amputee and the other blind in both eyes. They set the amputee down on the road and had the blind man sit next to him. Both were ex...

Znet Article Levy: A Fictitious Debate

Znet Article, October, 13 2002 Gideon Levy
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There is no difference between an "illegal outpost" and a "legal settlement": the question of the settlements' legality should not even be on the public agenda. The only thing that differentiates a "legal" settlement from an "illegal" outpost is a...

Znet Article Levy: A Suffocating Curfew

Znet Article, September, 30 2002 Gideon Levy
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Sayef Abu Kishaq did not sleep a wink all night on Friday. He is a 21-year-old volunteer in the International Solidarity Movement and a resident of the Iskar refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus, in the West Bank. Slightly before midnight, the ...

Znet Article Levy: A Passion For The Grave

Znet Article, September, 15 2002 Gideon Levy
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Here is the whole story in one grave: For those of us who were children in the 1950s and 1960, Rachel's Tomb was our heart's desire. In those days, nearly every home had one of the bronze sculptures or oil paintings that depicted the site, souveni...

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