A Life of Unrest

New York Times by Steven Erlanger, Taghreed El-Khodary | Jul. 15, 2007 (Special Report)
Palestinians never used to do these things to one another.

Rather than a model for a future Palestinian state, Gaza looks like Somalia: broken and ravenous. The civil war that Palestinians insisted could never happen just has, a civil war abetted by Israel and the United States in the name of antiterrorism and stability -- another policy that has failed, at least here, where a burning smell still fills the nostrils and where a masked Hamas gunman with an AK-47 recently sat at the abandoned desk of the Palestinian ... Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

While it makes a good read, this story is lacking an in-depth discussion of the continuing problems with Israel taking the lions share of water resources, destroying homes, olive trees, etc., and refusing to give the Palestinian authorities the taxes taken from Palestinians. The origin of the crowded refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon are mentioned only in a sentence in paragraph 11. Where is the connection with the formation of the State of Israel and the continuing incursion on Palestinian lands?

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