Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land

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EAN: 9781584350194
Author: Amira Hass
Format: Paperback
Year: 2003
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pages: 209

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"The only Israelis this generation of Palestinians know are soldiers and settlers. For them, Israel is no more than a subsidiary of an army that knows no limits and settlements that know no borders." Recipient of the UNESCO Guillermo Camo World Press Freedom Prize in 2003, Amira Hass is the only Jewish Israeli correspondent on Palestinian affairs to live among the people about whom she reports. The child of Holocaust survivors, Hass prefers the title "expert in Israeli occupation," and, as such, is relentless in her quest for both truth and justice. Publisher Description
Amira Hass has intimate knowledge of the experience of both Israelis and Palestinians. The daughter of concentration camp survivors, Hass has chosen to live in a Palestinian town to provide a first-hand description of what daily life is like for the population, in particular how the Israeli army behaves and the effects of the army's presence. Writing for the Israeli newspaper "Ha'aretz" and other journals, Hass presents unsettling truths: as the Israeli government measures its success in Palestinian deaths, many Palestinians can chart their victory only in terms of the fear they can inspire. "The game is now who is more afraid, and who is less afraid of dying," Hass writes.