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“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
Edward Said (1994)
Category Archives: Children
Children of Gaza
A moving, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s Dispatches on 15 March. BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann follows the lives of three children for over a year. The children are amazing: well-spoken, reflective, resilient, understandably vengeful and fearful, … Continue reading
Dr H. in the Holy Land VI: Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation
The hospital I am volunteering in gives me hope for this country, it is a symbol of a community working hard despite the daily hardships that they encounter in a land where the word “mam-noa” meaning “forbidden” is often said. … Continue reading
Posted in Apartheid, Children, Israel, Israel Watch, Medicine, Occupation, Palestine, People, Water
Tagged Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation, checkpoints
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Murdered for sport: Israel’s collective psychosis versus hasbara PR
Khaled Amayreh takes aim at the Israeli apartheid state’s collective psychosis in chilling but required reading, contrasting its PR campaign against the “evil other” with its own deplorable record on human rights and the killing of children. “Seeking to cope … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Israel, Palestine, Violence
Tagged IOF, Samir Kuntar, Samir Quntar
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Occupied Bethlehem: How children are faring behind the Wall
Thanks to Richard Wiles for writing this heartrending Behind the Wall: ‘Medical Conditions caused by Political Decisions’. Wiles is a British photographer who regularly visits the occupied West Bank and has been writing regularly his Behind the Wall column (ICH; … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Health, History, Human Rights, Indicators, Israel, Kerala, Occupation, Palestine, Peace and Justice, Poverty, Violence, War, War crimes, Youth
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