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Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles

By Guest Post • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

WRITTEN BY IAN JACK
For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
At Birzeit University in Ramallah last week a young woman student in a headscarf asked how it was that Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate, could agree to visit and speak in Israel. Hadn’t Gordimer [...]