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Palestinian tent city challenges Israeli ‘doomsday settlement’

January 12, 2013
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Palestinian tent city challenges Israeli ‘doomsday settlement’

by Andrew Beale. As dozens of activists poured out of their buses, voices from the top of the hill shouted down at them in Arabic. Even without a working knowledge of the language, the message was clear to me: Hurry up and get over the ridge before the soldiers see us. The activists had traveled

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‘Shadow councils’ give voice to Palestinian youth

November 12, 2012
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‘Shadow councils’ give voice to Palestinian youth

by Andrew Beale. Disillusionment may seem unquantifiable, but Sharek Youth Forum has found a way to measure it. The organization, based in the West Bank capital of Ramallah, found in a 2011 survey of over 1,000 West Bank youth that 62 percent of Palestinian youth don’t trust in any existing political party. But Sharek didn’t

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  • The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

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