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Hass: Playing Two Different Games
Znet Article, March, 17 2006
Amira Hass
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The Palestinians are busy forming a government. It is too early to say how the events in Jericho will affect its composition, but what in the past was an internal game of musical chairs among Fatah and its satellites - a competition over personal ...
Hass: A Cruel Equation
Znet Article, March, 06 2006
Amira Hass
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"Now everything depends on your will and your decision. If you want to study for a doctorate in Haifa .... that's where you will study, under my guidance," Anna Sfard, a professor of mathematics education, told a student who had just completed his...
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: Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
Amira Hass
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It is evidently difficult to scrub off the sticker that is glued onto the front window. That's why when a new car from Germany or South Korea or the United States rolls onto the packed streets of Gaza or Ramallah, it generally has the big label wi...
Hass: Israel cuts Jordan Rift from rest of West Bank
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
Amira Hass
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While the international community busied itself with the disengagement from the Gaza Strip last summer, Israel completed another cut-off process, which went unnoticed; In 2005, Israel completed a process of sealing off the eastern sector of the We...
Hass: Revenge Is The Word In The Background
Znet Article, February, 08 2006
Amira Hass
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The young woman who came into the corner grocery in the Jenin refugee camp did not hide her hostility when told there was an Israeli guest. It seemed that it was even difficult for her to sit in the same room as the guest, whom the grocer honored ...
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: The Frog Is Exhausted
Znet Article, November, 17 2005
Amira Hass
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If you throw a frog into boiling water, it will jump out and save its life. But a frog swimming in room temperature water that is gradually heated will grow used to the heat; by the time the water boils, it's too late and the frog dies. That's ano...
Hass: Broken Bones And Broken Hopes
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Amira Hass
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For Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin is remembered first of all as someone who instructed soldiers to break their arms and legs, when they began their popular uprising against the Israeli occupation in 1987. Before the handshake on the White House law...
Hass: New checkpoint to sever W. Bank south of Nablus
Znet Article, October, 30 2005
Amira Hass
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The Israel Defense Forces has been constructing a major new checkpoint south of Nablus, at the Zaatara (Tapuah) junction, for checking Palestinian cars arriving from the northern and western parts of the West Bank. The checkpoint was decided upon...
Hass: Gaza After The Pullout
Znet Article, October, 12 2005
Amira Hass
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Salah Wared is a Palestinian who was born in Yemen and arrived with his family in Gaza as part of the Oslo Accords in 1994, when he was 9 years old. He lived in Gaza for two years and then moved to Jenin in the West Bank. In 1999, the Palestinian ...
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: Gazans Celebrate Freedom Of Movement
Znet Article, September, 13 2005
Amira Hass
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The joy of liberation was felt first and foremost yesterday, and with more intensity than anyone else, by the thousands of Gazans whose lives had been totally disrupted and who had been just plain imprisoned in their homes and neighborhoods by 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: Rosy Memories Of The White City
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Amira Hass
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The eyes grow a bit hooded, a faint smile passes across the lips, sometimes even accompanied by a sigh. "Ah, Tel Aviv." This is the almost uniform reaction of Gazans aged 35 and above when they discover that their interlocutor is an Israeli. Some ...
Hass: No Compensation
Znet Article, August, 14 2005
Amira Hass
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Today is Omar's last day of work for his employer in one of the religious settlements of Gush Katif. He will finish what he began a week ago: packing up the contents of the house and dismantling whatever can be dismantled. "I asked my boss if he w...
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: Using The Holocaust To Ward Off Criticism
Znet Article, March, 25 2005
Amira Hass
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The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel's position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home country of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usua...
Hass: Using The Holocaust To Ward Off Criticism
Znet Article, March, 21 2005
Amira Hass
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The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel's position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home country of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usua...
Hass: Olso All Over Again It's Not the State; It's the Liberation
Znet Article, March, 04 2005
Amira Hass
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The excitement that accompanied the rejection of the original composition of the Palestinian government by the Palestinian Legislative Council last week blurred the fact that there was no debate about the purpose of the new Palestinian government....
Hass: Closing Gaza's Already Closed Checkpoints
Znet Article, January, 25 2005
Amira Hass
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Closing Gaza's Already Closed Checkpoints
Hass: Is Everything Arafat's Fault?
Znet Article, November, 09 2004
Amira Hass
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The mothers who came to the military court at Salem on Sunday were seated five to six meters away from their sons on the defendants' bench. It was impossible not to hear their shouted conversations. After they informed their sons about who had sen...
Hass: Harassment As Military Duty
Znet Article, October, 21 2004
Amira Hass
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Every day soldiers confiscate the identity cards of West Bank Palestinians even though this is prohibited by the law - even by military orders, except under very specific conditions. It looks like a concentrated mass violation of army instructions...
Hass: What would Israel do without UNRWA?
Znet Article, October, 06 2004
Amira Hass
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Peter Hansen, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency in the territories, is being persecuted for having spoken the truth: Members of Hamas work in UNRWA. The Canadian Foreign Affairs Department is concerned and the Israeli Fore...
Hass: Kill a Turk and Rest
Znet Article, October, 01 2004
Amira Hass
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"Kill a Turk and rest" - a popular Israeli saying meaning "don't rush" - is not only a statement of doubtful political correctness. It is also the middle of a Jewish joke. But only the middle. In Israel it has a separate existence, which distorts ...
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: Gandhi's Grandson To Kick Off Unarmed Palestinian Campaign
Znet Article, August, 15 2004
Amira Hass
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The grandson of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, is to kick off a Palestinian campaign for an unarmed, popular struggle against the Israeli occupation. The campaign is being organized by a group of Palestinian social and politi...
Hass: Anarchy, Not Chaos in the West Bank
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Amira Hass
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There's no theft in Nablus. Maybe here and there, but it's not a phenomenon. About half the residents of the town have been impoverished by the tough closure, and the classic tension between the refugee camps has intensified. Anyone coming to th...
Hass: Monitoring Power
Znet Article, June, 30 2004
Amira Hass
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Israeli journalist Amira Hass, author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza, has reported regularly from Gaza and Ramallah, where she lived among local people. Amira has recieved the fist Anna Lind Award, in honour of the murdered Swedish foreign minister. ...


