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Znet Article Levy: Deafening Silence in Israel

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Gideon Levy
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The United States is poised to go to war within missile's throw of our homes, but no public discussion is taking place in this country, either about the necessity for a military campaign or its rightness. From one end of the world to the other peo...

Znet Article Levy: The Idf's 'permissiveness' In The Territories

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Gideon Levy
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A war in Iraq will soon break out, and with it a great darkness will descend on events in the territories. As long as what goes on there doesn't affect the war's execution, no one in the world will take an interest, no one will so much as cast a g...

Znet Article Levy: As Ramon Was Launched Into Space

Znet Article, January, 19 2003 Gideon Levy
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As the first Israeli astronaut took off into space, tens of thousands of Palestinians, among them sick people, children and elderly people, tried to get from their villages to a nearby city. As Ramon's satellite entered its orbit around the earth,...

Znet Article Levy: Eyeless In Israel

Znet Article, December, 15 2002 Gideon Levy
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Is it too much to ask Israelis to take a look, even a glimpse, at what's going on in their backyard? Are we even capable of dropping our relentless preoccupation with primaries and the battle between Tnuva and Strauss over cottage cheese, to pay a...

Znet Article Levy: Wanted Men

Znet Article, November, 10 2002 Gideon Levy
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At 11 in the morning last Monday, at the exit from Jenin, IDF soldiers detained two dialysis patients, one a double amputee and the other blind in both eyes. They set the amputee down on the road and had the blind man sit next to him. Both were ex...

Znet Article Levy: A Fictitious Debate

Znet Article, October, 13 2002 Gideon Levy
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There is no difference between an "illegal outpost" and a "legal settlement": the question of the settlements' legality should not even be on the public agenda. The only thing that differentiates a "legal" settlement from an "illegal" outpost is a...

Znet Article Levy: A Suffocating Curfew

Znet Article, September, 30 2002 Gideon Levy
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Sayef Abu Kishaq did not sleep a wink all night on Friday. He is a 21-year-old volunteer in the International Solidarity Movement and a resident of the Iskar refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus, in the West Bank. Slightly before midnight, the ...

Znet Article Levy: A Passion For The Grave

Znet Article, September, 15 2002 Gideon Levy
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Here is the whole story in one grave: For those of us who were children in the 1950s and 1960, Rachel's Tomb was our heart's desire. In those days, nearly every home had one of the bronze sculptures or oil paintings that depicted the site, souveni...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Levy: At The Salah Shehadeh Home In Gaza City

Znet Article, August, 02 2002 Gideon Levy
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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...

Znet Article 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....

Znet Article Levy: Buried With Chocolate In His Hand

Znet Article, July, 06 2002 Gideon Levy
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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...

Znet Article Levy: A Million People Under Curfew

Znet Article, June, 30 2002 Gideon Levy
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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. ...

Znet Article Levy: Building the Terror Infrastructure

Znet Article, April, 22 2002 Gideon Levy
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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...

Znet Article Levy: The People's War

Znet Article, April, 09 2002 Gideon Levy
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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...

Znet Article Levy: The view from Beit El

Znet Article, March, 04 2002 Gideon Levy
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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...

Znet Article Levy: Shooting and handing out candy

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Gideon Levy
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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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Levy: Crime Against the Innocent

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Gideon Levy
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 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...

Znet Article Levy: A crime against the innocent

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Gideon Levy
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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...

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