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Twilight Zone / Dead on Arrival

By Guest Post • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Gideon Levy
Nothing helped. Not the pleas, not the cries of the woman in labor, not the father's explanations in excellent Hebrew, nor the blood that flowed in the car. The commander of the checkpoint, a fine Israeli who had completed an officers' course, heard the cries, saw the women writhing in pain in the [...]

Gideon Levy "You have to be sad, then happy"

By Gilad Atzmon • May 4th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

Haaretz

In a short period of seven days the State of Israel dictates three times what its citizens should feel: They should grieve twice - on Holocaust Remembrance Day and on Memorial Day, and to be happy once - on Independence Day. These three days are commemorated in Israel with near zealous totality, a sort of [...]