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Znet Article Levy: Erasing the Past in Israel

Znet Article, June, 05 2005 Gideon Levy
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This is the most Arab-free area in Israel. It was the scene of total ethnic cleansing, which left not a vestige apart from the heaps of ruins and the sabra bushes. On the coastal plain, between Jaffa and Gaza, not one Palestinian village remains i...

Znet Article Levy: Good Morning To The Israeli Left

Znet Article, February, 16 2005 Gideon Levy
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Good morning to the Israeli left. After an eternally long hibernation, we are starting to hear the sounds of its awakening. Only when the wind is once again blowing in its direction - and not because of anything it did - does the extra-parliamenta...

Znet Article Levy: Dear Soldier

Znet Article, December, 20 2004 Gideon Levy
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A.L., a paratrooper who is serving in Nablus, wrote to me in the wake of my article "Suffer the little children" (Ha'aretz Magazine, December 3). The article described how Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot four children in the Nablus casbah, kil...

Znet Article Levy: Israel's War on Children

Znet Article, December, 07 2004 Gideon Levy
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In the present intifada, 323 Palestinian children under the age of 14 have been killed by IDF fire. Three recent examples from Nablus...Why waste ammunition? A few days ago, an Israel Defense Forces soldier fired at two boys in the casbah of Nablu...

Znet Article Levy: The Dehumanization Campaign

Znet Article, October, 19 2004 Gideon Levy
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More than 30 Palestinian children were killed in the first two weeks of Operation Days of Penitence in the Gaza Strip. It's no wonder that many people term such wholesale killing of children "terror." Whereas in the overall count of all the victim...

Znet Article Levy: Twilight Zone

Znet Article, October, 19 2004 Gideon Levy
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This one man embodies it all: Here you have the whole story of Palestinian suffering and struggle encapsulated in one person's biography. If it weren't a true story, one might suspect it was some sort of propaganda. Yusef al-Mughrabi, an amputee a...

Znet Article Levy: It is a sick society that harasses, humiliates dying patients

Znet Article, September, 29 2004 Gideon Levy
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One out of every nine women gets breast cancer. There are doctors who say that statistic has worsened lately and now stands at one out of every eight. The disease is particularly violent in younger women and the primary growth in the breast spread...

Znet Article Levy: The Beginning of the Start of the End of Occupation?

Znet Article, August, 31 2004 Gideon Levy
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How long can the costume ball go on? How long can we pretend the spit in our faces is rain? There are now signs that it can't go on forever - it is not the beginning of the end, but it looks like the beginning of the start of the end of the occupa...

Znet Article Levy: Double Standards

Znet Article, July, 20 2004 Gideon Levy
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What would happen if a Palestinian terrorist were to detonate a bomb at the entrance to an apartment building in Israel and cause the death of an elderly man in a wheelchair, who would later be found buried under the rubble of the building? The co...

Znet Article Levy: Compensate settlers for what?

Znet Article, June, 18 2004 Gideon Levy
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For what exactly should we be compensating the settlers who will be evacuated from Gaza? For the damage they caused the state for decades? For the scandalous economic price of their living in Gaza? For the blood needlessly spilled over them? Most ...

Znet Article Levy: Twilight Zone

Znet Article, June, 07 2004 Gideon Levy
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One of the 120 homes demolished by the IDF in the Brazil refugee camp belonged to architect Manal Awad. This was the third time since 1948 that her family has been left homeless - and the second time that Ariel Sharon was responsible.   ...

Znet Article Levy: The Victory of Brutality

Znet Article, March, 14 2004 Gideon Levy
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A new species of officer is achieving greatness in the Israel Defense Forces. These people did most of their service as occupation officers, and their excellence is a function of the degree of violence and brutality they exercise against the Pales...

Znet Article Levy: Twilight Zone, Fighting the Fence

Znet Article, March, 07 2004 Gideon Levy
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These were not rubber bullets. You don't have to be a ballistics expert to know that bullets that slice through a car, enter its flank, penetrate the upholstery and exit via the door are not rubber bullets. This is the red and white Ford Transit w...

Znet Article Levy: Twilight Zone

Znet Article, February, 29 2004 Gideon Levy
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Sunday of this week was a freezing cold day in the northern West Bank. A vicious dry wind relentlessly lashed the faces of everyone who ventured outside. Hunched against the wind, a group of men sat on the muddy ground, at the edges of Hawara chec...

Znet Article Levy: The aftermath of the Nablus invasion

Znet Article, January, 31 2004 Gideon Levy
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Nablus, West Bank - The knafeh here is still the best in the world, living up to its reputation. In the early evening, Abu Salha's pastry shop, by the side of the road that climbs to the Refidiya neighborhood, is deserted, the shelves almost empty...

Znet Article Levy: The Heart Breaks

Znet Article, January, 24 2004 Gideon Levy
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Na'im Araj awakens every day at 4 A.M., leaves quietly by the glass door in the living room that leads directly to the cemetery, and goes to his son's grave, just to be with him. After sunrise, his brother comes and takes him, for his own sake, aw...

Znet Article Levy: We Are All Soldiers at Checkpoints

Znet Article, January, 11 2004 Gideon Levy
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The terminology used to be routine and clear: Whenever a unit of the Israel Defense Forces completed a mission - be it the aerial bombing of refugee camps in Lebanon, shelling terrorist headquarters in Syria or attacking missile sites in Egypt - t...

Znet Article Levy: The Price of Ignorance

Znet Article, January, 08 2004 Gideon Levy
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The suicide bomber at the Geha Junction, Shehad Hanani, was from Beit Furik, one of the most imprisoned villages in the territories that is surrounded by earth roadblocks on all sides. It's a place where women in labor and the sick have to risk wa...

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 ...

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