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Levy: Children Of War
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Gideon Levy
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From this morning, thousands of policemen will guard Israel's children as they return to school after the summer vacation. For this reason, it is worth recalling that just an hour's drive away, yesterday also marked the end of the summer vacation ...
Levy: Nothing Happened
Znet Article, August, 17 2002
Gideon Levy
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Nothing happened. Soldiers opened fire, no one was hurt. Not a thing happened. The soldiers evacuated the bullet-riddled taxi and its passengers from the zone of fire and no officer appeared: not to investigate, not to take testimony, not to expla...
Levy: At The Salah Shehadeh Home In Gaza City
Znet Article, August, 02 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
The pilot who pressed the button and dropped the bomb; the commanding officer who gave him the order; the Shin Bet agent who reported the houses uninhabited; the engineering expert who promised limited casualties; the Air Force commander who pushe...
Levy: Fahdi's Summer Camp
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
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What to do with the kids during summer vacation? Some Palestinians don't have that problem. They send the kids to infiltrate into Israel and risk themselves day in and day out trying to make a few shekels by peddling wares or begging for handouts....
Levy: Buried With Chocolate In His Hand
Znet Article, July, 06 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
The video shows it all: Here are the three kids on their bikes, three black dots on the slope of the road, two on the right, close together, the third on the left, and a white car passes between them. A woman calls out something unclear, maybe a w...
Levy: A Million People Under Curfew
Znet Article, June, 30 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
Few if any Israelis can understand what it means to be under full curfew for 10 days, incarcerated with the children in a crowded house, usually without an air conditioner or a computer or games to play, maybe a barely functioning television set. ...
Levy: Building the Terror Infrastructure
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
1. Fares Smaha bought a new pair of shoes for the holiday last year. At the time, he was a fatherless 14-year-old boy. His older brother Ahmed was serving time in jail in Israel for theft; his sister had been sold into marriage to an old Bedouin i...
Levy: The People's War
Znet Article, April, 09 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
For the second time in Israel's history, Ariel Sharon is leading the country into a war of choice - as pernicious as any war of choice - and nearly the entire public is following him more than willingly. When history judges this war, only a few wi...
Levy: The view from Beit El
Znet Article, March, 04 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
Most Israelis, it is safe to assume, have never and probably will never visit the settlement of Beit El. They therefore have no idea what an inhabitant of that large settlement sees when he opens his window. To the east, the settler sees nothing b...
Levy: Shooting and handing out candy
Znet Article, February, 17 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
It is only a very small minority of people who support the refusal to serve in the territories and also back up their beliefs with actions. A decisive majority of Israelis oppose non-compliance with draft orders; some are convinced ...
Levy: Tell the truth, Shimon
Znet Article, January, 25 2002
Gideon Levy
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In the 24 years of our acquaintance, four of which I spent working as your aide, this is the third time I have written you an open letter. In 1989, when you were finance minister in the Shamir government and the first intifada was raging, I used t...
Levy: Crime Against the Innocent
Znet Article, January, 14 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
Monday, January 14, 2002 The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in Rafah on Thursday morning, constitute a war crime. There is no other way to describe a...
Levy: A crime against the innocent
Znet Article, January, 14 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in Rafah on Thursday morning, constitute a war crime. There is no other way to describe and define the collective punishment of...
