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Compulsory reading.
This incisive and courageous thread in Hebrew tweeted this past Thursday by @nirhasson, Haaretz’s Pulitzer-class Jerusalem correspondent needs to be read by a broad audience.
This is my translation.
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Compulsory reading.
This incisive and courageous thread in Hebrew tweeted this past Thursday by @nirhasson, Haaretz’s Pulitzer-class Jerusalem correspondent needs to be read by a broad audience.
This is my translation.
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“On Monday, I wrote that using force to enable entry of Jews to the Temple Mt on Eid al Adha would encourage extremists. Today, 2 kids ran towards a policeman w/a knife. If I now write that the two are related, I’ll be accused of supporting terror"
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“On Monday, I wrote that using force to enable entry of Jews to the Temple Mt on Eid al Adha would encourage extremists. Today, 2 kids ran towards a policeman w/a knife. If I now write that the two are related, I’ll be accused of supporting terror"
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“Just one question: how many times need this happen before it's determined that there is a correlation between brutal conduct on the Mount and attacks.”
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“Just one question: how many times need this happen before it's determined that there is a correlation between brutal conduct on the Mount and attacks.”
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When two kids, aged 14 and 16, run with kitchen knives towards a group of armed police clad in body armor, it’s not terror, it’s suicide.
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When two kids, aged 14 and 16, run with kitchen knives towards a group of armed police clad in body armor, it’s not terror, it’s suicide.
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"How much racism, how much blindness do we require before stopping for a moment to ask why a 14 year old wants to commit suicide, and what is our responsibility for all this?"
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"How much racism, how much blindness do we require before stopping for a moment to ask why a 14 year old wants to commit suicide, and what is our responsibility for all this?"
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"No point answering. This is a totally insane discourse. However things have a context. Occupation exists. That is, there is a government that rules over people that have rights, and over those who don’t. Occupation is by its very nature violent"
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"No point answering. This is a totally insane discourse. However things have a context. Occupation exists. That is, there is a government that rules over people that have rights, and over those who don’t. Occupation is by its very nature violent"
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"To the people without rights, there is one very very important place, which they see as an important part of their identities, their dignity."
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"To the people without rights, there is one very very important place, which they see as an important part of their identities, their dignity."
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“Every time we, those with the rights, change the status quo at that place, people are killed and wounded. It happens over and over."
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“Every time we, those with the rights, change the status quo at that place, people are killed and wounded. It happens over and over."
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"It’s possible to occupy with increasing force. Its possible to enter the site with a tank and a sacrificial lamb. But it comes at a price. Today one policeman and two kids (14 and 16) paid that price. Keep it up.”
Every word hewn in stone.
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"It’s possible to occupy with increasing force. Its possible to enter the site with a tank and a sacrificial lamb. But it comes at a price. Today one policeman and two kids (14 and 16) paid that price. Keep it up.”
Every word hewn in stone.
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