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Hell made in Israel (1-5/4/02)

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The Daily Life of Kawther Salam My “visa” card that’s available to work in all over the world,is not available to work in Israel. The Israeli goverenament imposed siege on the Palestinian Banks and visas cards. My Israelifriends helped me always to survive, and “DINA LEE” is still responsible about all of myexpenses. It’s enough … Read more

palestine

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palestine The desert speaks shrouds wail floating across the expanse from the Valley of Jezreel, to the waters of Sharem el Shech billions of tiny granules cloud up in anger. Six million dead souls whisper through lidless graves awakened from their mournful slumber unwilling recruits to the justification for murder. Foreign-made tanks rumble through Sinai … Read more

The Murder of Arafat

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If Ariel Sharon succeeds in murdering Yasser Arafat, as he wants to, the Palestinian leaderwill remain in the collective memory of his people, and the whole Arab world, like Moses inJewish memory. Moses rebelled against Egyptian oppression, led his people forth from “the house ofbondage”, led them for 40 years in the desert, made a … Read more

A Queue of Bombers

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When a whole people is seething with rage, it becomes a dangerous enemy, because the rage doesnot obey orders. When it exists in the hearts of millions of people, it cannot be cut off by pushing a button. When this rage overflows, it creates suicide bombers – human bombs fuelled by the power ofanger, against … Read more

An apology to myself

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Sorry to say, I have to apologize. And to myself, of all people. This is how it was. A short time after the destruction of the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001,I wrote: A basic change in the American attitude towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict isgoing to take place. The US is going to impose a … Read more

Sir, It’s the Wrong War!

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After the invasion of the Balata refugee camp by a regular brigade of the IDF, the brigadecommander appeared on television and said that he had expected the Palestinians to fight liketigers, but that they behaved like pussycats. This is a frightening sentence, because it discloses a startling fact: the Brigade commanderdoes not understand in what … Read more