Amira Hass

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What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

by Amira Hass December 19, 2011

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares

by Amira Hass November 15, 2011

Interior, justice and defense ministries decided to cease respecting a gentlemanly agreement with with Palestinians and their spouses holding passports of mostly western countries. Israel canceled their resident status.

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The truth behind another Israeli expulsion trick

by Amira Hass June 28, 2011

The artificial division between Areas A, B and C was supposed to be erased from the map, and dropped from the discourse, in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified and perpetuated it.

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Jerusalem or Gaza – where is it worse to be Palestinian?

by Amira Hass September 13, 2010

Is it the isolation and insulation that Israel has imposed on Gaza, or the cynicism with which the decision makers continue to turn the population of East Jerusalem into welfare clients and slum dwellers, and then pride themselves of the national insurance payments they grant them? By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Graduates [...]

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Children with guns. The IDF in the West Bank – By Amira Hass

by Amira Hass August 15, 2010

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Nighttime raids, pointed guns, arrests often accompanied by beatings, kicks, curses and painful and extended handcuffing. The ordinary behavior of Israeli children in uniform. Children in the West Bank throw stones at army vehicles and Israeli cars, mainly those belonging to settlers. That is the undeniable truth. [...]

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A Palestinian arrest so ridiculous even the Israeli judges smiled

by Amira Hass February 15, 2010

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Something about 12-year-old Bassam caused two Israelis to smile. Two Palestinians noticed, but did not remember their smiles as being disparaging or arrogant. On the contrary. The Palestinians regarded the smiles as a rare moment in which two Israelis – and not just any Israelis, but military [...]

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Danger: Popular struggle

by Amira Hass December 23, 2009

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There is an internal document that has not been leaked, or perhaps has not even been written, but all the forces are acting according to its inspiration: the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces, Border Police, police, and civil and military judges. They have found the true enemy [...]

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Israel has made settlers of all its citizens

by Amira Hass December 13, 2009

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Would any of the settlers who opposed the Civil Administration inspectors this week be living in the territories had the governments of Israel not established and encouraged them? Would the Gush Katif evacuees have moved to mobile homes in Ariel in the expectation of spacious permanent housing [...]

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Amira Hass – The Israel donors conference

by Amira Hass March 4, 2009

The extent of the funding pledged to the Palestinian Authority by donor countries reflects the extent of their support for Israel and its policies. The American taxpayers’ contribution to the Ramallah government’s bank account is dwarfed by the large sums the U.S. government donates to Israel every year. It’s impossible to get excited over the [...]

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Not an internal Palestinian matter

by Amira Hass October 5, 2006

By Amira Hass The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called “what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens.” These are the steps in the experiment: Imprison (since 1991); remove the [...]

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It’s not all in the details…..this is the checkpoint near our home

by Amira Hass December 30, 2005

“we Israelis have created and continue to create an economic, social, emotional, employment and environmental crisis on the scale of a never-ending tsunami.” Ha’aretz Last update – 11:07 28/12/2005 It’s not all in the details By Amira Hass Each detail described here, every shred of reality, is liable to be considered as a whole, which [...]

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