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October 25,
2004
Uri Avnery
On
the Road to Civil War
October 22
/ 24, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
You
Can't Blame Nader for This
Rev. William Alberts
On Bended Knee: Faith-Based Deceptions
Willliam A.
Cook
Killing for Christ
Saul Landau
George W. Bush: a Man of His Words?
Bill Quigley
I Held the Bullet in My Palm: Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children
While Arresting Priest
Christopher Brauchli
Seal It With a Frown: What Compassionate Conservativism Really
Means
William S.
Lind
Fallujah and the Moral Level of War
Sharon Smith
Guilt Trippers for Kerry
Greg Bates
Kerrynomics: "Hurt the Ones Who Vote for Us"
Justin E.H. Smith
Is Lesser Evilism a Compromise with Evil?
Rebecca Evans
Tarnished Legacy: Pinochet and the Chilean Military
Mike Whitney
Al Hurra TV: the Second Invasion
M. Junaid Alam
Purchasing Individuality in America
David Krieger
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Examining the Policies of Bush and
Kerry
David J. Ledermann
The Emperor's New Crumbs
Lawrence Reichard
Same Old FBI Story
Website of
the Weekend
Lie Girls: the Real Coalition of the Willling
October 21,
2004
Ben Tripp
The
Undecided Voter Examined
Joshua Frank
Kerry
and the Environment:
It's Not Easy Pretending to be Green
Stan Cox
What
the Left Doesn't Get About Small Businesses
Bill Martinez
State
Depart and Cuban Visas: Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply
Mark Engler
The War and Globalization
Lina Britto
and Lucia Suarez
Bolivia:
a Year After the October Insurrection
Website of the Day
Two Pampered Children of Wealth
October 20,
2004
Yitzhak Laor
"Did
You Two Squabble?": a Bullet Fired for Every Palestinian
Child
Jason Leopold
Sinclair
Broadcasting's Air War: a Long History of Journalistic Deception
Jesse Sharkey
A
Teacher's Account of How Military Recruiters Prey on High School
Students
Col. Dan Smith
Choking
Free Speech About the Draft
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Using My Religion
David Vest
If
Bush Wins, Blame Me
Jack Random
The Jackson 17: Reflections on a Mutiny
Ron Jacobs
Time
to Kick It Up a Notch
James Brittain
Plan Patriota and the FARC: a Change in the Countryside?
Christopher
Dols
Bombing Madison: Michael Moore's Fright Fest
Dave Lindorff
First They Came for the Nurses...
Website of
the Day
Banana Republican Catalogue
October 19,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Party
Favors: the Political Business of Terry McAuliffe
Jeff Taylor
Confessions
of a Swing State Voter
Matt Vidal
American
Myopia: "More Money in Your Pocket"
Victor Kattan
"It's Not Who You're Against; It's Who You're For":
Palestine Takes Center Stage At Euro Social Forum
William Loren
Katz
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sean Carter
O'Reilly Should Shut Up About Extortion Claiims
CounterPunch Wire
Who's Really in Bed with Republican Funders: Kerry or Nader?
October 18,
2004
Saul Landau
Facts
and Lies; Slogans and Truth
Dave Lindorff
Bulletin
on the Bush Bulge
Diane Christian
Sheep
and Goats: On the Language of Goodness
Greg Bates / Dave Lindorff
Betting on War: a Wager on the Fallout of a Kerry Presidency
Uri Avnery
Ariel
Sharon's Philosophy
Peter LaVenia
Leaving the Greens So Soon? a Response to Josh Frank
Mike Whitney
O'Reilly at the Whipping Post
Elaine Cassel
The Other War: Civil Liberties Three Years After 9/11
October 16
/ 17, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern
Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the
True Measure of Bush's Character
Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World
Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was
the President Just Glad to be There?
Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices
Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire
M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!
Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain
Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It
Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results
David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?
Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable
Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador
Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence
Thomas on the Million Worker March
Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the
South"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert
Website of
the Weekend
No More Bush Girls
October 15,
2004
Paul Craig
Roberts
Where
Did These "Conservatives" Come From?: The Brownshirting
of America
Laura Carlsen
Wal-Mart
vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
Greg Bates
Empire of Insanity: Kerry's Iraq Troop Numbers
Michael Donnelly
News from a Swing State: Does Anyone Here Have a Spine?
Katherine Lahey
The Venezuelan "Threat": Why Do Kerry and Bush Fear
Hugo Chavez?
Robert Jensen
/ Pat Youngblood
Election Day Fears
Leah Caldwell
From
Supermax to Abu Ghraib: the Masterminds of Torture and Abuse
Website of
the Day
An Anti-Billionaire Policy? Why That Would Be Economic Racism
October 14,
2004
Darcy Richardson
The
Other Progressive Candidate: the Lonely Crusade of Walt Brown
Willliam A.
Cook
Turning
Myths into Truth
Laura Santina
Water, Women and War
Evelyn Pringle
Free Speech Banned by Big Pharma: What You Can't Say About Drug
Importation
Alan Farago
Lessons
from Nature
Rep. Maxine Waters
A Letter to Colin Powell on Haiti
Nicole Colson
Maimed
for Oil and Empire
October 13,
2004
Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton and Bill Quigley
Aftermath
of a Coup: The Other Disaster in Haiti
Sharon Smith
Barak
O-Bomb-a?: Democrats Target Iran
Christopher Brauchli
God and the Bush Administration
Mike Whitney
The Real Meaning of the Hamdi Case
Paul de Rooij
Amnesty
International: a False Beacon?
Website of
the Day
Operation
Truth
October 12,
2004
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Indian
Country"
Greg Bates
The Year of Voting Dangerously: a Survey Request of Nader Voters
in Swing States
Steven Conn
Progressives as Pawns: Kerry's War on Nader
Jason Leopold
Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon Billions from
UN Oil-for-Food Program
Security Scholars
for a Sensible Foreign Policy
Time for a Change of Course
Timothy J. Freeman
Dying for a Mistake
Pierre Tristam
Deconstructing Bush
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The 2nd Debate: the Blurring of Act and Audience
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Israel as Sideshow
Website of the Day
John Kerry's Personal Off-Shore Tax Shelters
October 11,
2004
Robert Fisk
Iraq:
Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises
Kevin Pina
The
Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti
Patrick Gavin
Rethinking
Columbus Day
Chris Floyd
Tribes with Flags in the New Afghanistan
Daniel Wolff
Radioactive Money: Entergy, Political Cash and America's Most
Dangerous Nuclear Plant
Walter Brasch
The Only Ones Who Believe Saddam Had WMDs are Bush, Cheney...and
40% of All Americans
Mike Whitney
The Phony Afghan Elections: Ballot of the Disappearing Ink
Ari Shavit
"He Talks to Condi Rice Every Day": an Interview with
Sharon's Lawyer
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Debates and the Big Lie
Website of the Day
Dylan's Greatest Recording?
October 9 /
10, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
"There
Are No Innocents"
Paul de Rooij
Northern Ireland is Still the Issue: a Conversation with Gerry
Adams
M. Shahid Alam
Making Sense of Our Times
Laura Carlsen
Protest and Populism in Latin America
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: ASA Goes to Court
Col. Dan Smith
Bush's Credibility Gap
Paul Craig
Roberts
Faith-Based Economics
Greg Bates
What If Nader Critics Get What They Demand?
Joshua Frank
Cobb, the Greens and the Collapse of the Left
Felice Pace
Wilderness, Politics and the Oligarchy: How the Pew Charitable
Trust is Smothering the Grassroots Environmental Movement
Walter A. Davis
Of Pynchon, Thanatos and Depleted Uranium
William A.
Cook
The Agony of Colin Powell
Phyllis Pollack
Twas No Crank Call Love Affair: London Calling, 25 Years Later
Poets' Basement
Klipschutz, Albert, Ford
Website of the Weekend
Abu Ghraib: the Taguba Annexes
October 8,
2004
Jennifer Loewenstein
The
Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Moshe Adler
Edwards' Gambit: He Hoped No One Would Notice the Similarities
David Swanson
Media Blackout: Press Continues to Ignore Labor's Opposition
to Iraq War
Dave Zirin
CounterPunch Contest: Let's Name the New DC Baseball Team!
Rep. Ron Paul
The Draft is a Form of Slavery
William S. Lind
Keeping Our SA Up
Samar Assad
Kerry v. Bush: No Difference When It Comes to Israel / Palestine
Jim Ingalls
and Sonali Kolhatkar
The Elections in Afghanistan
October 7,
2004
Dave Lindorff
All
Out of Volunteers: A Draft is in the Air
Masha Hamilton
Fear in Kandahar
Christopher
Brauchli
Master of Corruption: the Ripening Scandals of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Is There Still Time to Impeach Bush?
Bruce K. Gagnon
Bombing the Panhandle: Fighting the Pentagon in Rural Florida
Meredith Kolodner
Where
is the Urgency?: The Anti-War Movement's Election Year Challenge
October 6,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
"Please,
Dude, Can I Take Them Out?": Targeting Civilians in Fallujah
Ron Jacobs
Going
Nuclear: the Ghost of Edward Teller Lives
Michael Colby
The National Flip-Flop: Suddenly Bush is Unfit to Lead?
Tarif Abboushi
More of the Same: Israel Wins the Debates
Matthew Behrens
Canadian Firms Profit from Iraqi Blood
Mike Whitney
Rethinking WMDs
John Pilger
Stealing Diego Garcia
Ben Tripp
Kerry's "Triumph"
Kevin McKiernan
Cheney's Poison Lab: Wrong Time, Wrong Target
Patrick Cockburn
Elections
Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq
Website of the Day
Is There an Islamic Problem?
October 5,
2004
Anthony Loewenstein
Rupert
Murdoch and the Marginals: "Personally Creating Outcomes"
Mark Clinton
and Tony Udell
The
Suicide of an Iraq War Veteran
Greg Bates
Trading
Idiots: an Open Letter to Eric Alterman
Dave Lindorff
What's
the Frequency, Karl?
Norm Dixon
Why Washington Won't Save Darfur Villagers
Larry Kearney
God Talk and Burning Children
Bill Linville
Dirty Politics in the Land of "Clean" Government
Gary Leupp
What
Edwards Should Ask Cheney
Website of
the Day
A Guide to Halliburton for Tonight's Debate
October 4,
2004
Diane Christian
The
Gates of Hell
Joshua Frank
An Interview with David Cobb
Doug Giebel
Incurious George: What If Bush Didn't Lie?
John Chuckman
Strange Victory: Sen. Obvious and the Pathetic Lump
Ramzy Baroud
Reverse the Picture: Anatomy of a Palestinian Outrage
Julia Stein
Remembering Mario Savio and the FSM
Sean Donahue
Outsourcing
Terror: Kerry and Special Forces
Website of
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Mapping
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Paul Wright
John
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Kathleen and Bill Christison
An Exchange with Israeli Historian Bennie Morris
Kathie Helmkamp
My Son Trent: a Marine Who Doesn't Want to Kill
Phillip Cryan
Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia
Lenni Brenner
The First Ex-Catholic Saint: Memories of Mario Savio
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: In Case You Missed "Montel"
Ron Jacobs
It Did Happen Here: When Neo-Nazis Terrorized Olympia
Ben Tripp
Sticker Shock
William S.
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The Grand Illusion: Iraqi Security Forces
Dave Zirin
The Swindle of the Century: Baseball Comes to DC
Dave Lindorff
Lies from the Great Debate
Luscon Pierre-Charles
Haiti's Elections: a High-Tech Sham is Underway
Zoe Moskovitz
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Separating Lies from Truth About Haiti
Nelson P. Valdes
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The "Ownership Society" and the End of the Everglades
Nancy Haley
What is the Historical Jesus Trying to Tell Us?
Alex Billet
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Steve Fesenmaier
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October 25, 2004
The Killing
of Iman al-Hams
Executing
Another Child in Rafah
By
OMAR BARGHOUTI
Iman al-Hams was a 13-year old refugee
schoolgirl who was executed -- after being wounded -- by an Israeli
platoon commander on the sad sands of Rafah.
According to testimonies given
by soldiers in the same company to the mass Israeli daily Yedioth
Ahronoth, a soldier in the watchtower identified Iman and cautioned
his commander shouting, "Don't shoot. It's a little girl".
The company commander, the soldiers testified, "approached
her, shot two bullets into her [head], walked back towards the
force, turned back to her, switched his weapon to automatic and
emptied his entire magazine into her." (1) Eyewitnesses
corroborated the soldiers, account, saying that Iman was shot
almost 70 meters away from the Israeli military position. After
a bullet hit her leg, Iman, who was wearing her school uniform,
fell. Then, they said, the officer went over to her, saw that
she was bleeding from her wounds, but still shot her twice in
the head to "confirm the killing", an Israeli euphemism
for the practice of executing a wounded Palestinian. A cursory
army investigation later cleared him of any "unethical conduct",
as is customary, and suspended him only because of "poor
relations with subordinates".(2)
In a flash, Israel proved to
the world -- yet again -- that it is not only intransigent in
its patent and consistent violation of international law, but
also incapable of adhering to the most fundamental principles
of moral behavior.
Three other children, almost
the same age as Iman, were killed while sitting in their classrooms
in UN-run schools in Gaza in the past few weeks. They were not
caught in crossfire. They were not mistaken for adults. They
were shot to death as part of Israel's overt plan to collectively
punish Palestinian civilians for acts of resistance committed
from their localities, in order to incite internal rifts and
resentment aimed at the resistance movements. For instance, during
the recent atrocious attack on Jabaliya, ostensibly to prevent
firing of the rudimentary Qassam rockets, the Israeli forces
destroyed houses, groves, infrastructure, water and electric
supply lines in a manner that was called "wanton" and
"indiscriminate" by the UN. Lest people fail to get
the message, leaflets were dropped over northern Gaza by Israeli
helicopters, warning Palestinians that "terrorism pushes
you further into a life of misery and poverty."(3) And your
children will be hunted, too, the leaflets forgot to mention.
But why, someone may protest,
should we judge Israel based on this one incident, as heinous
as it may be? A brief look at Israel's recent record of purposely
targeting Palestinian children will provide a compelling response.
The fact that more than six hundred and twenty Palestinian children
have been killed by Israel in the past four years should show
that rather than being a mere aberration, murdering Iman was
the rule.
A look at the use of language,
perhaps the most accurate gauge of a society's moral collapse,
will reveal the degree of racism that has gripped Israel. Media
outlets, politicians and even academics have seen fit to brand
Palestinian children as "enemies", "beasts",
"tormenting attackers" and "terrorists" throughout
this intifada. The main motive behind resorting to such dehumanizing
diction in reference to children is a prevalent belief in the
Israeli mainstream that Palestinians are more than anything else
an imminent danger to be dealt with. They are a people born with
a predisposition to terror, as if due to some mysterious genetic
disorder. A child is then just a potential terrorist, a literal
time-bomb. Studies by prominent Israeli demographers often betray
this attitude. Even some Israeli army officials are appalled
at the intentional killings. Ha,aretz quoted a senior officer
saying, "Nobody can convince me we didn't needlessly kill
dozens of children.(4) Hundreds is more like it. Some of the
most revealing instances will help substantiate this claim.
Even before the current intifada,
in Hebron in 1996, an Israeli settler fatally pistol-whipped
11-year-old Hilmi Shusha. An Israeli judge first acquitted the
murderer, saying the child "died on his own as a result
of emotional pressure., After numerous appeals and under pressure
from the Supreme Court, which termed the act "light killing",
the judge reconsidered and, as the Aqsa Intifada was raging,
sentenced the killer to six months, community service and a fine
of a few thousand dollars. The boy's father accused the court
of issuing a "license to kill." (5) Gideon Levy of
Ha,aretz eloquently described the fine as the "end-of-the-season
clearance price on children's lives, referring to the findings
of B'tselem, Israel's leading human rights organization, which
documented dozens of similar cases in which perpetrators were
either acquitted or received a slap on the wrist.(6)
In the first year of the intifada,
several human rights organizations, including the Boston-based
Physicians for Human Rights, documented a pattern in which Israeli
sharpshooters have targeted the eyes or knees of Palestinian
children with a "clear intention to harm". Tel Aviv
University Professor Tanya Reinhart writes, "A common practice
is shooting a rubber-coated metal bullet straight in the eye
-- a little game of well-trained soldiers, which requires maximum
precision." (7) Those snipers, evidently, failed to see
beyond their little, glittering target the face, the person,
the human child, and they "took them out with professionalism".
A New York Times journalist, who spent two weeks monitoring the
"clashes between Palestinian children with stones and slingshots
and the Israeli army with tanks and precision equipment at a
flashpoint in Gaza, wrote, "Never during the time I spent
at Karni did an Israeli soldier appear to be in mortal danger.
Nor was either an Israeli soldier or settler even injured."
In that period, at least 11 Palestinian [children] were killed
during the day [time](8) by live ammunition.
Palestinian children have been
fatally targeted in minor stone-throwing incidences by professionally-trained
Israeli sharpshooters, who only fire with the intention "to
hit the head". Because if a sharpshooter fires, "he
fires for certain in order to kill", as transpired from
the breakthrough interview Ha'aretz journalist Amira Hass (9)
had conducted with a "left leaning" sharpshooter during
the early stages of the current intifada. "Keenness to shoot",
"lack of restraint", being "bored" or even
"tired" were among the key excuses he gave to justify
his army's shoot-to-kill policy. Citing the high incidence of
killing or seriously injuring Palestinian children, Hass asked
the sharpshooter whether he or his colleagues had intentionally
targeted children. Adamantly denying the accusation, he emphasized:
"You don't shoot a child who is 12 or younger. Twelve and
up is allowed. He's not a child any more...Twelve and up, you're
allowed to shoot. That's what [our commanders] tell us."
The veteran American journalist
Chris Hedges went even further, documenting how Israeli troops
systematically cursed and otherwise provoked Palestinian children
playing in the dunes of southern Gaza in order to shoot them.
He wrote in Harper's Magazine(10):
"The boys -- most no more
than ten or eleven years old -- dart in small packs up the sloping
dunes to the electric fence that separates the camp from the
Jewish settlement. They lob rocks toward two armored jeeps parked
on top of the dune and mounted with loudspeakers. ... A percussion
grenade explodes. The boys ... scatter, running clumsily across
the heavy sand. They descend out of sight behind a sandbank in
front of me. There are no sounds of gunfire. The soldiers shoot
with silencers. The bullets from the M-16 rifles tumble end over
end through the children's slight bodies. Later, in the hospital,
I will see the destruction: the stomachs ripped out, the gaping
holes in limbs and torsos.
"Yesterday at this spot
the Israelis shot eight ..., six of whom were under the age of
eighteen. One was twelve.... Children have been shot in other
conflicts I have covered -- death squads gunned them down in
El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up
and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their
sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo
-- but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like
mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
Other than the direct approach
to killing Palestinian children, Gideon Levy also reports on
another form of slow death: the medieval-like siege. When a 10-year-old
girl from El-Sawiya village near Nablus experienced severe abdominal
pains, her father tried to take her to the nearest hospital in
Nablus; the merciless Israeli siege, however, blocked all possible
routes out of the village. In the morning Ella died from a burst
appendix, which could have been easily treated at any hospital.(11)
Whether at the checkpoints,
in their classrooms, in their living rooms or in the streets,
Palestinian children have long lost any immunity they might have
enjoyed under an occupation that used to be particularly sensitive
to its image in the western public opinion. Alas, that was before
9/11. Since then, however, with the effective Israelization of
US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, Israelis felt
they had a "windfall, as Netanyahu called the 9/11 crimes
in his first public reaction. Indeed, Israel has steadily moved
close to a combination of the French colonial model in Algeria
and the apartheid model in South Africa, while enjoying unwavering
protection from the new empire and a hypocritical, subservient
attitude from most European governments which continue to treat
Israel as a preferred partner and as a western outpost in the
near east. Thanks to this shameful collusion, Palestinian children
are no longer spared Israel's worst crimes, committed with revolting
impunity.
When a nation tolerates, even
encourages -- through failing to properly investigate killings
or punish perpetrators -- the deliberate, cold-blooded murder
of a defenseless child under the pretence of security, it does
not only lose any claim to morality it may have ever had, but
also kills any remaining argument for its worthiness to continue
existing as a racist, colonial state that is essentially above
the law. It is the responsibility of humanity at large, and the
west in particular, to impose sanctions and boycotts on Israel
similar to those struck against South Africa in the past in order
to bring about its compliance with the precepts of international
law and the ever-evolving universal moral principles.
Iman in Arabic means belief.
It is hard to guess why Iman al-Hams, parents called her that
name, but it may have been out of belief in their own ability
to persevere, to live and develop despite occupation, exile and
destitution. This belief lies buried with Iman in Rafah. With
occupation, there is no room for true peace, for progress, for
decent living or for any sense of safety. Palestinian children
deserve life, freedom, dignity and hope. At the very least, they
deserve not to be executed by the region's "only democracy".
Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian political
analyst. His article "9.11 Putting the Moment on Human Terms"
was chosen among the "Best of 2002" by the Guardian.
He can be reached at: jenna@palnet.com
REFERENCES:
(1) Chris McGreal, A schoolgirl
riddled with bullets. And no one is to blame, The Guardian,
October 21, 2004.
(2) BBC News, 15 October 2004,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3748054.stm
(3) Chris McGreal, 23 killed
in Israeli raid on refugee camp, The Guardian, October 1,
2004
(4) Ha'aretz, December 12,
2000.
(5) Reuters, January 22, 2001;
Phil Reeves, "Fury as court frees settler, The Independent,
January 22, 2001.
(6) Gideon Levy, Ha,aretz,
January 28, 2001.
(7) Tanya Reinhart, "Don't
Say You Didn't Know, Indymedia, November 2000.
(8) Michael Finkel, "Playing
War, New York Times Magazine, December 23, 2000.
(9) Amira Hass, Don't Shoot
Till You Can See They,re Over the Age of 12, Ha,aretz, November
20, 2000.
(10) Chris Hedges, A Gaza
Diary, Harper's Magazine, October 2001.
(11) Gideon Levy, Ha,aretz,
January 7, 2001.
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