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Today's Via Dolorosa |
| Issue: 2001, Volume 34, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Christianity|Theology |
| Author: Dillon, Edward J. |
Issue Description: In Ed Dillon's country parish in upstate New York, church members reenact the Stations of the Cross on the Friday before Holy Week. Tracing the Stations of the Cross has been a pious custom, especially for Latin Catholics, since the time of the Crusades. The Link asked Pastor Dillon to go to Jerusalem and to construct a modern parable while following the course of the original Via Dolorosa and reflecting on the figures who found themselves there 2,000 years ago. Who could be cast today as Jesus, Dillon asked himself. "For those who come to the Holy Land with eyes to see and ears to hear," he writes, "the answer is the Palestinian people."
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Inside H-2 |
| Issue: 2001, Volume 34, Issue 4 |
| Subject: Hebron|Human Rights|Land and Homes |
| Author: Adas, Jane |
| Issue Description: The most populated West Bank city after Jerusalem, Hebron today is a city cut in two. In 1997, following 30 years of Israeli occupation, 80 percent of Hebron came under Palestinian control— though Israel still controls the main access routes. This is H1. H2, the remaining 20 percent, remains under Israeli military control. It counts an estimated 30,000-35,000 Palestinians and approximately 400 Jewish settlers, protected by 1,200 Israeli soldiers. |
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Muslim Americans in Mainstream America |
| Issue: 2000, Volume 33, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Civil Rights|Islam/Muslims |
| Author: Awad, Nihad |
Issue Description: Between six and eight million Muslims live in the U.S. African-Americans represent 43%, Asian- Americans 26%, Arab-Americans 14%, Iranian-Americans 4%, Turkish-Americans 3%, European- Americans 3%, with 7% unspecified. Until recently, most lived in well defined Muslim communities. Today, however, Muslims are moving into the mainstream and, like minorities before them, many are facing discrimination, intolerance, even violence. To counter this bias, Nihad Awad helped to found
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. |
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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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