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In the Labyrinth of Solitude |
Our territory is inhabited by a number of races speaking different languages and living on different historical levels…. A variety of epochs live side by side in the same areas or a very few miles apart, ignoring or devouring one... |
MER248 |
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Crime and Punishment on Israel's Demographic Frontier |
On August 4, 2005, Natan Zada, 19, boarded an Egged bus at Haifa’s Hamifratz station, picked a seat in the back and rode it into Shafa ‘Amr, a mixed Druze, Muslim and Christian town in the heart of the Arab Galilee. Zada wore his... |
MER237 |
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Doing Time in the Theater of Occupation |
The photograph fetched from a back room in the narrow two-story house on the edge of Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp shows a precociously handsome adolescent, posing in a baseball cap and sports jacket against a faux backdrop of the... |
MER231 |
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On Settlement Trade, Europe Doesn't Stand Tall |
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False Resolution Looms in EU-Israeli Settlement Trade Dispute |
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A Very Slippery "Landslide" for Mahmoud Abbas |
A chorus of international approval greeted Mahmoud Abbas' victory in the Palestinian Authority presidential election. January 9 was "a historic day for the Palestinian people and for the people of the Middle East," declared... |
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Après Nous, Nous |
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Heard on the Hill of Shame |
It was early afternoon, a bright, crisp Friday in mid-January on the hilltop that lies between Route 34 and the Gaza border, maybe half a mile from Sderot. At the base of the hill lounged journalists and TV crews in foldout chairs, taking... |
MER250 |
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Postmortem of a Compassionate Checkpoint |
In late October 2000, the intifada was in its then bloodiest throes. In his offices in Stockholm harbor, architect Alexis Pontvik followed the news from the Middle East with growing disquiet but little surprise. What perhaps would have been his... |
MER223 |
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Reel Casbah |
To live the East as film is to be in Dubai in mid-December, perched front-row in the outdoor cafés that dot the Madinat Jumeira Oriental theme park. An integrated hotel, shopping and entertainment “experience” sprawled on the... |
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