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Znet Article Gordon: Making More Refugees

Znet Article, June, 13 2004 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM: The bulldozers have been working around the clock building the separation barrier, and it is now clear that the end is at hand. The residents' expulsion is imminent; they will soon be forced to move from their homes and ancestral land. ...

Znet Article Gordon: The Gaza Debacle

Znet Article, May, 19 2004 Neve Gordon
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Two weeks after 60,000 Likud members voted against a pullout from the Gaza Strip, about 150,000 Israelis filled Rabin Square in Tel-Aviv, calling upon the government to proceed with the withdrawal plan. The first group supports the vision of a Gre...

Znet Article Gordon: Yassin

Znet Article, March, 29 2004 Neve Gordon
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Jerusalem -- A few hours after the Israeli military assassinated Hamas’s spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, I entered the classroom in order to teach my politics of human rights course. Ever...

Znet Article Gordon: Living In The Shadow Of Death

Znet Article, November, 30 2003 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM: The police officer shoved the Palestinian into the patrol car. "This time," he said, "we are going to take care of you; I will personally make sure that you are sent back to where you came from."For Fuad Moussa, a 27-year-old gay man wh...

Znet Article Gordon: The Apartheid Wall

Znet Article, November, 10 2003 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM: As the government of the Jewish state forces the Palestinians in ghettos, history must be turning in its grave. Qalqiliya, a city of 45,000, has been surrounded by a concrete wall and only those who are granted permits by the Civil Admi...

Znet Article Gordon: Sharon's Pre-emptive Zeal

Znet Article, September, 11 2003 Neve Gordon
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No more than a month ago I sat with a friend drinking coffee at the Hillel Café in Jerusalem. Today it is a shattered edifice, with blood stains on the floor. Indeed, this was the first thought that crossed my mind after hearing the news about th...

Znet Article Gordon: Strategic Abuses: Outsourcing Human Rights Abuses

Znet Article, September, 06 2003 Neve Gordon
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In her book Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns, Janice Thomson describes how Sea Dogs such as Francis Drake extorted large ransoms from Spanish colonial cities by threatening to destroy them if they failed to pay up. The Sea Dogs were virtually ...

Znet Article Gordon: Nightlife In Jerusalem

Znet Article, August, 04 2003 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM: The meal had been lovely, and I was preparing to pay the bill when my cell phone rang. Even though it was just a few minutes before midnight, the Jerusalem restaurant was bustling and I had to walk outside to hear what the caller was sa...

Znet Article Gordon: The Bad Fence

Znet Article, May, 29 2003 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM: Although Mazmuriah is located less than 20 minutes drive from my Jerusalem apartment, all roads connecting the small village to the city have been blocked off.Using roundabout roads which wind across the hilly terrain of the southern Je...

Znet Article Gordon: The Missing

Znet Article, May, 01 2003 Neve Gordon
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Magdalena Emperatriz was kidnapped on May 31, 1982 during a counter-insurgency campaign carried out by the Salvadoran army. She was 15 days old. The campaign resulted in the killing of hundreds of civilians and the destruction of dozens of towns a...

Znet Article Gordon: Come To Dinner When The War Ends

Znet Article, March, 30 2003 Neve Gordon
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“Come to dinner when the war against Iraq ends,” Jamil said, as I opened the car door. He had just parked the sedan, a short distance from the Bethlehem military checkpoint, the one closest to Jerusalem.“Is that what you ca...

Znet Article Gordon: Arabs And Jews Unite Against War

Znet Article, February, 13 2003 Neve Gordon
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Jerusalem: About a week ago, ten Israelis from different grassroots organizations crossed the Qalandia checkpoint and entered besieged Ramallah, a city located in ”Area A” of the Palestinian territories and therefore legally out of...

Znet Article Gordon: The IDF's Slippery Moral Slope

Znet Article, February, 08 2003 Neve Gordon
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Jerusalem: Following my last military reserve duty, I was kicked out of my unit, the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) educational corps.  There was a surrealistic dimension to the whole experience. I had driven a few hours to a base loca...

Znet Article Gordon: The Empire Strikes Back

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Neve Gordon
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Nine Palestinian farmers were taken to the nearby military base. When they arrived soldiers jumped on them, tied their hands behind their backs and fixed a piece of cloth around their eyes.  They were led to a deserted area in the base and to...

Znet Article Gordon: Christmas Eve In Bethlehem

Znet Article, December, 27 2002 Neve Gordon
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Jerusalem: At around 9:00 am, the first fifty Israelis passed the military checkpoint and climbed over the dirt barricade. They were entering Bethlehem, which is considered “Area A” of the Palestinian territories and therefore out ...

Znet Article Gordon: Israel's Choice

Znet Article, November, 24 2002 Neve Gordon
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Jerusalem: Returning to Israel after an extended absence can be a disturbing experience. On the way back from the airport to my Jerusalem apartment, I noticed new posters tacked onto utility poles and bridges along the highway. They read: Transfer...

Znet Article Gordon: Ariel Sharon's Subjugation Strategy

Znet Article, September, 01 2002 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM -- Israel recently agreed to withdraw its forces from Bethlehem and populated Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip while the Palestinian Authority takes on the responsibility of policing residents there. Israeli soldiers and tanks moved t...

Znet Article Gordon: Jerusalem Under Attack

Znet Article, June, 26 2002 Neve Gordon
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The last suicide bomber blew himself up no more than 300 yards from my Jerusalem apartment. The windows shuddered as the deafening sound filled the air. Then came a moment of silence followed by the loud echo of sirens. A friend who had seen th...

Znet Article Gordon: The Caterpillar Effect

Znet Article, June, 01 2002 Neve Gordon
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“This is the first time that bulldozers have determined the outcome of a war,” L., one of the Palestinian fighters from the Jenin refugee camp was recently quoted in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot. The officer in charge of the m...

Znet Article Gordon: Open Letter to the Commander of the Israeli Paratroopers

Znet Article, April, 01 2002 Neve Gordon
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 This letter by Israeli human rights activist and writer Neve Gordon was published in the weekly Jerusalem newspaper Kol Ha'Ir. It is addressed to Aviv Kohavi, Brigade Commander of the Israeli Paratroopers, and describes the Israeli military ...

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