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Znet Article Hass: Teaching Them Who's Boss

Znet Article, February, 18 2004 Amira Hass
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During the past three-and-a-half years, S., a veteran ambulance driver, has been evacuating victims injured by Israeli army gunfire and the bodies of those killed on the firing line in Rafah. Early in the morning of February 8, he was summoned to ...

Znet Article Hass: Failed Predictions

Znet Article, February, 15 2004 Amira Hass
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"The planners of the fence failed to predict its effects on innocent Palestinians," National Security Advisor Giora Eiland told a high-level diplomatic-security forum in Germany this week (Haaretz, February 9). Like Eiland, other Israeli represent...

Znet Article Hass: Palestinians are now 'illegal residents'

Znet Article, October, 14 2003 Amira Hass
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One of the questions raised immediately after it became clear that for the most part, the separation fence would not be built along the length of the Green Line, but in fact somewhere to the east of it, was the fate of the Palestinians living to t...

Znet Article Hass: Explaining The Occupation To The Occupier

Znet Article, October, 09 2003 Amira Hass
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By How can a tiny Palestinian organization like Islamic Jihad produce so many walking bombs, suicide bombers who choose babies in strollers and their grandparents as targets? And how does an organization that once declared it would only target sol...

Znet Article Hass: No Master Plan

Znet Article, September, 10 2003 Amira Hass
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In many West Bank villages people are giving up cultivating a good share of their land at the edges of their property due to harassment by Israelis who have settled the area, both before and after September 2000. Sometimes it is a fence and a se...

Znet Article Hass: Primordial Illogic

Znet Article, July, 25 2003 Amira Hass
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There is nothing more logical than setting arbitrary times of day when a Palestinian is allowed to leave his home and come back to it. There is nothing more logical than forbidding him to leave his field in a pickup truck to take his crops straigh...

Znet Article Hass: Dahlan

Znet Article, June, 26 2003 Amira Hass
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GAZA - The friends of Mohammed Dahlan, Fatah members in the Gaza Strip, are calling him a suicidal. This is because he accepted the thankless task of being in charge of security matters in the government of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), a task which ...

Znet Article Hass: The Pressure Worked - In The Opposite Direction

Znet Article, June, 25 2003 Amira Hass
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After the attempt on Abdel Aziz Rantisi's life and the assassinations of the heads of the military wing of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli sources claimed that "Hamas is in a panic," and the organization "is under heavy pressure to agree to a cease-fire." ...

Znet Article Hass: What The Doctor Orders

Znet Article, June, 22 2003 Amira Hass
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  GAZA CITY - The two young people handed their host a piece of paper and all three of them huddled in a whisper. The time: late evening; the place: Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The two are members of Iz a Din al-Kassam, the militar...

Znet Article Hass: Clarifying The Occupation Lexicon

Znet Article, June, 11 2003 Amira Hass
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Israeli political discourse relies on terms that have become so distorted in meaning that the understanding of the reality behind them has also been distorted. Here are some examples: Closure: On the eve of the Aqaba summit, the Israel Defense F...

Znet Article Hass: 'We Don't Raze Homes For No Reason'

Znet Article, June, 08 2003 Amira Hass
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BEIT HANUN, Gaza - Ahmed Za'anin's house now looks like some 1,200 other Palestinian homes: a pile of rubble. On May 18, at about 7 P.M., IDF bulldozers knocked down four houses, one partially, which belonged to the extended Za'anin family, in Ezb...

Znet Article Hass: The State Sharon Is Talking About

Znet Article, May, 28 2003 Amira Hass
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Talk and declarations have more influence than facts and actions on the ground. This can be seen once again in the contradictory reactions - furious or welcoming - to the government's approval of the road map and to the fire-breathing statements b...

Znet Article Hass: Cameraman Under The Streetlamp

Znet Article, April, 23 2003 Amira Hass
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One of the answers often used by the army when its soldiers kill someone who clearly had nothing to do with the fighting or even stone-throwing (which nobody questions is a crime punishable by death), is that the situation is dangerous, there's co...

Znet Article Hass: A Stone's Throw From Here

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Amira Hass
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Despite everything, they continue to show up: children with rocks in their hands. A lonely police jeep enters the edges of Ramallah. The adults go about their routine, and a few kids pop up from somewhere, waiting in ambush around the corner for t...

Znet Article Hass: Horror Scenarios Coming True

Znet Article, March, 27 2003 Amira Hass
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It has been almost a week since the United States and Britain launched the attack on Iraq, and the horror scenarios outlined by the Palestinians in recent weeks - concerning Israel's military policy toward them - are not coming true. These scenari...

Znet Article Hass: As war Approaches Palestinian Fears Rise

Znet Article, March, 20 2003 Amira Hass
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Nearly every night these past three weeks, F. has been dreaming that she, her family, her neighbors and the rest of the inhabitants of Ramallah are expelled from their homes. As the attack on Iraq becomes more certain, the scenes have become sharp...

Znet Article Hass: The Routine Calamities That Destroy Lives

Znet Article, February, 26 2003 Amira Hass
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The daily routine nowadays for every Palestinian in Gaza or in the West Bank, is made up of an unending series of calamities, their present ramifications, and the certain fear of new ones to come. One night, the life of the Al Hilo family from G...

Znet Article Hass: One arrested, 3 dead, 23 wounded

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Amira Hass
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This is already the kind of news that gets buried in the inside pages: Three Palestinians were killed last Sunday when a trop of IDF soldiers in Nablus arrested one of the leaders of the tiny Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Taisa...

Znet Article Hass: Threats of forced mass expulsion

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Amira Hass
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Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- February 2003 THREATS OF ENFORCED MASS EXPULSION Israel: a new Palestinian diaspora _______________________________________________________ The repugnant idea of the...

Znet Article Hass: The myth of the state and the reality of the annexation

Znet Article, February, 12 2003 Amira Hass
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The conventional wisdom in Israel is that in 2000, the Palestinians rejected the "generous" Israeli offer for a permanent solution and its readiness for a Palestinian state, and then the Palestinians initiated the outbreak of the bloody conflict. ...

Znet Article Hass: Terror As A Natural Phenomenon

Znet Article, January, 15 2003 Amira Hass
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A senior officer was asked last week if he thought the IDF could prevent a provocation by supporters of the "transfer" idea in the army and among the settlers of the West Bank, and foil any attempt at a mass expulsion of Palestinians. The officer ...

Znet Article Hass: Fundamentalist Logic

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Amira Hass
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Kiryat Arba's settlers, with active assistance from the Civil Administration and the IDF, are keeping their promise to create "territorial contiguity between Kiryat Arba and the Tomb of the Patriarchs." Less than three weeks after the lethal Islam...

Znet Article Hass: Fatah's Failure

Znet Article, November, 24 2002 Amira Hass
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Among Palestinians, the Fatah movement is known as a "supermarket" - a mix of ideologies, with a variety of social and behavioral movements. Left and righ...

Znet Article Hass: Will You Just Stand On The Sidelines?

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Amira Hass
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After the elections the preachers of the "transfer solution" will be strengthened, the surveys say. It doesn't matter right now exactly how much stronger they'll become. The important thing is that every day that goes by, the preachers of transfer...

Znet Article Hass: It's The Pits

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Amira Hass
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Four frightened farmers emerged from the old Renault that screeched to a halt in the center of the path. "The settlers didn't let us get to our grove," they told their fellow villagers of Akrabeh, who were picking olives along the sides of the pat...

Znet Article Hass: It Only Leads To Disaster

Znet Article, October, 21 2002 Amira Hass
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"This is my daughter," B. pointed proudly at the girl walking beside him in the Tul Karm neighborhood. "She is 10," he said in Arabic and Hebrew, adding, "but she is not a local product." B. spent 15 years in an Israeli prison for Fatah activities...

Znet Article Hass: Scraping The Bottom of The Cistern

Znet Article, October, 16 2002 Amira Hass
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Where will America and the EU succeed more: In their pressure on Yasser Arafat to lead governmental, financial and security reforms, or in their pleas with Israel to guarantee enough water of reasonable quality and price to 200,000 Palestinians? A...

Znet Article Hass: Always A Fighter, Always A Terrorist

Znet Article, October, 09 2002 Amira Hass
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A Palestinian is a terrorist when he attacks Israeli civilians on both sides of the Green Line - in Israel and the territories - and when he attacks Israeli soldiers at the gates of a Palestinian city. A Palestinian is a terrorist when an army uni...

Znet Article Hass: Everyday Occurences

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Amira Hass
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Last Thursday morning, two huge bulldozers dug into the earth energetically, as they have been doing in recent months, in a wadi north of Ramallah. Over the past two years, with the gradual closure to Palestinian traffic of all the roads in the We...

Znet Article Hass: Ramallah Diary

Znet Article, September, 23 2002 Amira Hass
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Suddenly, at about 11 P.M. on Saturday night, people started calling one another to ask with disbelief if it was true there was demonstrating in the streets. "Is it true what Al Jazeera is reporting - that dozens of young people are demonstrating ...

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