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Ave Mundus: A visit to the mother of a dead boy in Hebron
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Friday, April 5, 2013. A visit to the mother of a dead boy in Hebron. 65279;. Some time ago, I went to the Palestinian city of Hebron - or Al-Khalil, as it is also called - to visit the mother of a boy who was shot dead on his 17th birthday at an Israeli army checkpoint, although it turned out he posed no threat because he was unarmed. A Palestinian and Israeli human rights group are investigating the case. 65279;. 65279; . Ammar (Yasser Arafat) is watching us. On his 17th birthday. Suppos...
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Ave Mundus: A stone's throw away from prison
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013. A stone's throw away from prison. Muhannad Al-Khmur was fifteen when Israeli soldiers first came to fetch him. At three ‘o clock in the morning they entered his home in Bethlehem and ordered him outside. ‘Just for ten minutes’, they added, but the boy wasn’t fooled. ‘I don't know when you'll see me again', he told his mother. Why he was worth all the hassle, if he really had done nothing more than throw a handful of stones? The treatment of Palestinian minors by the Israeli milit...
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Ave Mundus: A Palestinian song of perseverance
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Thursday, May 9, 2013. A Palestinian song of perseverance. Finding a more or less happy entrepreneur in Palestine these days is not an easy task, especially in Hebron, but it can be achieved. Take. Situated on a slope overlooking the town that used to be an important regional center of trade. The presence of Jewish settlers has mutilated it long since, transforming a major part of the traditional souk into a no-go area for Palestinians - but. Here's the story in a nutshell. Once, Hirbawi Textiles was...
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Ave Mundus: May 2013
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Thursday, May 9, 2013. A Palestinian song of perseverance. Finding a more or less happy entrepreneur in Palestine these days is not an easy task, especially in Hebron, but it can be achieved. Take. Situated on a slope overlooking the town that used to be an important regional center of trade. The presence of Jewish settlers has mutilated it long since, transforming a major part of the traditional souk into a no-go area for Palestinians - but. Here's the story in a nutshell. Once, Hirbawi Textiles was...
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Ave Mundus: June 2013
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013. A stone's throw away from prison. Muhannad Al-Khmur was fifteen when Israeli soldiers first came to fetch him. At three ‘o clock in the morning they entered his home in Bethlehem and ordered him outside. ‘Just for ten minutes’, they added, but the boy wasn’t fooled. ‘I don't know when you'll see me again', he told his mother. Why he was worth all the hassle, if he really had done nothing more than throw a handful of stones? The treatment of Palestinian minors by the Israeli milit...
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Ave Mundus: Not your average surf girl (1976-2005)
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Not your average surf girl (1976-2005). For some heroes or heroines there’s no happy ending. That very same day – 16 April. 2005 – the American activist Marla Ruzicka did pass out, at the age of 28, in a hospital in Baghdad as a victim of a suicide attack aimed not at her, but at a military convoy. In Iraq, at the time, every day hundreds of thousands of people risked meeting their deaths the same way Marla did. What was special about her was that everyone in this torn coun...
