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The Syrian Community on the Golan Heights |
| Issue: 2000, Volume 33, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Land and Homes|Settlements|Syria |
| Author: Tarabieh, Bashar |
| Issue Description: The author of this issue, Bashar Tarabieh, is a member of the Arab Academic Association for Development of the Golan. Bashar presently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. The story he tells in these pages is indeed the untold story of his people’s oppression under foreign occupation. Much has been reported in the U.S. media of what the 17,000 Israeli colonizers on the Golan might lose should negotiations with Syria succeed. But what of the 140,000 Syrians expelled by Israel in 1967, or the 17,000 who remain there today? What about their 33 years of lost freedoms. This is their story. |
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The Lydda Death March |
| Issue: 2000, Volume 33, Issue 3 |
| Subject: History|Land and Homes|Refugees|War/Conflict |
| Author: Amash, Charles; Rantisi, Audeh |
| Issue Description: On July 12 [1948] Ramle and Lydda were occupied by Zionist forces and a curfew was imposed. At 11:30 a.m., many Lydda inhabitants, shut up in their houses, took fright at the sudden outbreak of shooting outside.… Some rushed into the streets, only to be cut down by Israeli fire...In the confusion, many unarmed detainees in the detention areas in the center of town – in the mosque and church compounds –were shot and killed.… At 13:30 hours, July 12, before the shooting had completely died down, Operation Dani HQ issued the following order to Yiftah Brigade: “The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age.”--Israeli historian Benny Morris, “The Middle East Journal,”vol. 40, No. 1, Winter 1986, pp. 86-87 |
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Confronting the Bible's Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine |
| Issue: 2000, Volume 33, Issue 5 |
| Subject: Christianity|History|Holy Land|Theology |
| Author: Prior, Michael C. M. |
| Issue Description: Is Yahweh the Great Ethnic-Cleanser? Did He not instruct the Israelites to rid their Promised Land of its indigenous people? Few biblical scholars want to wrestle with these questions. Rev. Michael Prior needs to wrestle with them. He's been to today's Holy Land and has seen today's variation on biblically sanctioned genocide. Dr. Prior is Professor of Biblical Sudies in the University of Surrey, England, and visiting professor in Bethlehem University, Palestine. He is a biblical scholar and author of "Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry" and "The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique." |
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The Camp |
| Issue: 1999, Volume 32, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Human Rights|Land and Homes|Refugees|War/Conflict |
| Author: Hamzeh-Muhaisen, Muna |
| Issue Description: What is it like to be on the receiving end of the longest military occupation in modern history? Muna Hamzeh-Muhaisen lived in Dheisheh, a refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem, for more than a decade, including the period of the first intifada. This is her account of the people who have lived in Dheisheh all of their lives. As she notes, there is hardly a refugee in The Camp, young or old, who doesn’t remember the names of the camp’s victims and even the years of their untimely deaths. |
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