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Their power of endurance
By Amira Hass
Tags: Gaza, Amira Hass 

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Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station would dismiss as feminine and sentimental the view that peoples don't win wars. Like other Arab analysts, they regard attacking Israeli civilians and engaging the IDF in fierce battles as an Arab victory. But where's the victory for the 1,000 Lebanese the Israeli army has killed? Where's the victory in a million people fleeing homes that were bombed and destroyed? Are such losses worthwhile just to demonstrate that a guerrilla group can entangle a regular army and expose such an Israeli weakness?

On the other hand, the non-victory of the other side is not an Israeli victory, even if Israel triples the number of Hezbollah fighters and doubles the number of Lebanese mothers that it has killed so far. Even if the Israeli Air Force wipes out a thousand villages, it would still not bring back to life the Israelis who were killed.
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The trauma and economic damages will continue to affect many people's lives. Even if the cease-fire agreement is closer to Israel's positions than to Lebanon's, it would still not be a victory. Israel's insistence to unilaterally lay down the rules in the region perpetuates and deepens its character as an alien element within it. Israel's future generations will continue to pay for this obstinacy.

It comes as no surprise that this war has not yet been finished in one fell swoop. For six years, the Israeli army has accustomed its soldiers to regard their assaults in the occupied territories as "fighting" and "battles." They fostered the myth that there was symmetry between the advanced regular Israeli army and groups of Palestinians armed with light weapons and homespun bombs, scurrying among the tanks and helicopters that are demolishing their houses and fields. Indeed, on a few occasions, the Palestinians succeeded in guerrilla operations that killed or wounded the troops. But these were the exception. The suicide attacks inside Israel attest to the "military" weakness of the Palestinian organizations.

Now the IDF has sent to Lebanon soldiers who have been taught to believe that warfare is running down refugees' homes with tanks and bulldozers; that a battle is firing from helicopters at fighters with Kalashnikov rifles who cannot even scratch the Israeli tank surfaces. These soldiers think that defending the homeland is preventing hundreds of thousands of people from living like human beings, by operating roadblocks in the territories.

By another twisted standard set by the Israeli army in recent years, homes in northern Israel whose occupants have left to escape the Katyushas are to be designated as "abandoned." This, after all, is how Israeli military spokesmen justified, initially, the fact that bulldozers systematically demolished the homes of civilians in Khan Yunis and Rafah - civilians who had fled massive Israeli fire.

Bulldozers will not raze the homes of Israelis in the North, but why should thieves, for example, not take from them whatever they can get their hands on? These are, after all, abandoned homes, the thieves will say in their defense, citing the precedents.

Why bring this up today? First, because the war - state cruelty - against the Palestinians is ongoing. Second, because Israel's double standard and basic contempt for anyone who isn't "us" explains better than the army's outdated equipment and faulty training why it has been receiving blows so far and will continue to receive them. Israel is convinced that in Lebanon, as in Gaza and the West Bank, its unlimited power to destroy is both a deterrent and spur to political change. It is ignoring the human factor - that the Palestinians and Lebanese' fortitude grows in lockstep with our strengthening powers of destruction.

We are justly concerned about the welfare of northern residents, proud of their fortitude, understand those who leave, are shocked by the death of each person and by every rocket hit, and identify with those suffering from anxiety. Take what the northern residents have been going through for a month, multiply it by 1,000, add an economic blockade, power and water cuts, and no wages. This is how the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been "living" for the past six years.

The Israelis allow their army to continue destroying, trampling and killing in the Palestinian territories. Here, like in Lebanon, the real intelligence and security failure is Israel's ignoring the extent of our uninhibited, unrestrained devastation and their amazing power of human endurance. This is why Israel has delusions of "victories." If the homemade rockets are still being fired at Sderot despite the Palestinians' extensive suffering, it is because they have concluded, correctly, that Israel's destruction power is not intended to stop Qassam rockets - or to free Gilad Shalit. It is intended to force them to accept a surrender arrangement, which they reject not with military victories but with their power of endurance.
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  1.   Oh Boy, Look Who`s Back 10:52  |  Tod Zuckerman 09/08/06
  2.   From the Bomb shelter 10:54  |  FOX 09/08/06
  3.   Amira Hass ----A great person 10:59  |  Haytham 09/08/06
  4.   Long live the Palestinians! Long live Amira Hass 11:04  |  Ahmed 09/08/06
  5.   get the facts straight 11:09  |  shani 09/08/06
  6.   Amira is back! 11:11  |  Baruch 09/08/06
  7.   endurance... or despair... 11:12  |  ravi 09/08/06
  8.   Exactly put 11:15  |  RW 09/08/06
  9.   Endurance 11:19  |  David1943Ahmed2006 09/08/06
  10.   Fox 11:21  |  Sami 09/08/06
  11.   She Should Not Be Given a Forum 11:26  |  shlomo 09/08/06
  12.   answer to nr 5 11:28  |  ruud 09/08/06
  13.   A little thought 11:31  |  Michael 09/08/06
  14.   Amira Hass--Keep Up The Good Work! ...Keep Telling THE TRUTH! 11:32  |  Proud Pal Defender 09/08/06
  15.   Most the phony "Palestinians" killed are terrorists. 11:49  |  Palestiniansareamyth 09/08/06
  16.   "not bring back to life the Israelis who were killed. " 11:53  |  Zev 09/08/06
  17.   hi ravi thanks for dropping in 11:59  |  and if not 09/08/06
  18.   endurance 12:10  |  Hermann 09/08/06
  19.   few journalists can match amira haas for 12:20  |  harzion 09/08/06
  20.   lucidity from Hass 12:23  |  Josh Goldman 09/08/06
  21.   Amira Hass 12:24  |  Azzie 09/08/06
  22.   Right on, Amira. 12:26  |  Amoz 09/08/06
  23.   I thought Amira has been fired... 12:28  |  Andre 09/08/06
  24.   The Palestinians have been dealing with Israeli terrorism 12:28  |  Stephen Murray 09/08/06
  25.   To Sami, let`s talk 12:29  |  FOX 09/08/06
  26.   Israel - The odd ones out 12:30  |  Naser 09/08/06
  27.   To Harzion #19 12:31  |  FOX 09/08/06
  28.   josh goldman unique biological specimen 12:32  |  harzion 09/08/06
  29.   #11 Shlomo, Shlomo, Shlomo 12:33  |  Azzie 09/08/06
  30.   Endurance 12:33  |  Silvia 09/08/06
  31.   Haas, Male chauvanist 12:33  |  FOX 09/08/06
  32.   josh goldman and "taking us down to hell" 12:34  |  harzion 09/08/06
  33.   To Stephen Murray #24 12:39  |  FOX 09/08/06
  34.   Nasser #26 12:45  |  FOX 09/08/06
  35.   ehud olmert the whole country is with you 12:51  |  harzion 09/08/06
  36.   Fox 13:02  |  sebi 09/08/06
  37.   # 31 FOX 13:04  |  Shelly 09/08/06
  38.   Fox #34 13:09  |  Naser 09/08/06
  39.   support for Amira Hass 13:18  |  thomas 09/08/06
  40.   #24 Long Live the Palestinian People ! 13:19  |  Dutch 09/08/06
  41.   Amira the Great! 13:20  |  ROSEMARY`S BABY 09/08/06
  42.   Fox #34 furthermore 13:26  |  Naser 09/08/06
  43.   to Naser, #38 13:30  |  thomas 09/08/06
  44.   Amira, Azzie et al 13:35  |  Eli Wapniarski 09/08/06
  45.   to shlomoe # 11 : 13:35  |  Thomas 09/08/06
  46.   FOX COMPARISONS 13:50  |  Silvia 09/08/06
  47.   Viva Amira! 13:55  |  Salam 09/08/06
  48.   Thank you & good luck, Amira 14:02  |  amanda 09/08/06
  49.   The voice of reason 14:10  |  Moyne 09/08/06
  50.   Silvia, your perceptions re #46 14:10  |  FOX 09/08/06
  51.   ENDURANCE POWER OF JEWISH PEOPLE 14:10  |  Shalom 09/08/06
  52.   Thank you, Amira 14:13  |  Aaron Levitt 09/08/06
  53.   Amira Hass 14:15  |  Fraser Smith 09/08/06
  54.   The silent "genocide" in Gaza / 40 children killed by IDF in July 14:15  |  Dino 09/08/06
  55.   Hass Is back!!! Now The antiIsrael hatemongers have a reference.. 14:15  |  Max Zinger 09/08/06
  56.   with all respect 14:16  |  John DOWN THE WALL 09/08/06
  57.   A Fan of Amira Hass 14:17  |  Tony Paulus 09/08/06
  58.   Amira,welcom back 14:25  |  maurice 09/08/06
  59.   Fox # 50 14:32  |  Silvia 09/08/06
  60.   they look like cowards 14:32  |  Marilyn 09/08/06
  61.   Viva Silvia 14:51  |  Noor 09/08/06
  62.   Tell us, FOX 14:55  |  Zorba 09/08/06
  63.   Empty Talk 14:59  |  Yonatan Netser 09/08/06
  64.   Unbiased reporting highest award 14:59  |  Moe 09/08/06
  65.   to Silvia # 59: conscience of crime? 15:05  |  thomas 09/08/06
  66.   Silvia`s response to Fox 15:05  |  Naser 09/08/06
  67.   Amira Has(s) a miserable existence 15:12  |  El Colt 09/08/06
  68.   Proud to be Israeli ! 15:16  |  Gil 09/08/06
  69.   Great piece: some truth at last ! 15:19  |  Ezra 09/08/06
  70.   # 65 Colt fire 15:20  |  Silvia 09/08/06
  71.   Zorba, my opinion re #62 15:33  |  FOX 09/08/06
  72.   Fox, what about the Palestinians? 15:44  |  Naser 09/08/06
  73.   Amira Israel has endured Arab hostility,grown and prospered. 15:48  |  PETER SM 09/08/06
  74.   Amira is right 15:52  |  Boris 09/08/06
  75.   to FoX, #71 15:53  |  thomas 09/08/06
  76.   Forgotten What We Stand For 15:55  |  Peace 09/08/06
  77.   Dear Fan of Amira Hass #57 16:01  |  Eli Wapniarski 09/08/06
  78.   If there were a dozen Amiras there would be... 16:02  |  New Yorker 09/08/06
  79.   I`m surprised, but Amira totally missed the big picture 16:06  |  Jacob Blues 09/08/06
  80.   Response to # 76 16:07  |  Naser 09/08/06
  81.   Sirens heard near Kiryat Shmona 16:10  |  GF 09/08/06
  82.   to Eli # 77 16:14  |  thomas 09/08/06
  83.   Response to Jacob Blues # 79 16:18  |  Naser 09/08/06
  84.   Amira, a bit more objectivity please 16:20  |  Jack 09/08/06
  85.   to Peace # 76 16:21  |  thomas 09/08/06
  86.   3,333 Hezbollah rockets have hit Israel since start of fighting ( 16:27  |  GF 09/08/06
  87.   The Way to Fight Them #77 16:27  |  Eli Wapniarski 09/08/06
  88.   Sheee`s Back-Yechh 16:28  |  Amsterdam 09/08/06
  89.   #35 speak for yourself 16:30  |  sacha 09/08/06
  90.   Lesson to the Palestinians 16:44  |  Ben Gurion 09/08/06
  91.   Sorry Naser, but the Arabs managed that one... 16:45  |  Jacob Blues 09/08/06
  92.   To Naser 16:46  |  Peace 09/08/06
  93.   Amira Hass 16:46  |  Jane 09/08/06
  94.   16:43 Sirens sound in Rosh Hanikra, Nahariya and Shlomi (Haaretz 16:48  |  GF 09/08/06
  95.   Thomas reply to #75 16:49  |  FOX 09/08/06
  96.   16:43 Sirens sound in Rosh Hanikra, Nahariya and Shlomi (Haaretz) 16:51  |  GF 09/08/06
  97.   sraelis need to be Liberate d from the warlords too too! 16:52  |  Dutch 09/08/06
  98.   Point of advocacy must take in a wider view, Naser 16:53  |  Jacob Blues 09/08/06
  99.   Moreover Naser, we see what happens when Israel... 16:57  |  Jacob Blues 09/08/06
  100.   #11 Shlomo - Freedom of speech??? 16:58  |  Micah 09/08/06
  101.   Welcome Back, Amira! 17:00  |  Minerva`s Owl 09/08/06
  102.   Jane`s silly woman`s nonsense 17:01  |  sh 09/08/06
  103.   The truth always hurts 17:01  |  Emad 09/08/06
  104.   To Nasser in Amman 17:02  |  Jack 09/08/06
  105.   Why are we afraid to talk? 17:04  |  Peace 09/08/06
  106.   New Yorker 17:07  |  sh 09/08/06
  107.   Hezbollah rockets strike Beit She`an region, Kiryat Shmona(Haare 17:11  |  GF 09/08/06
  108.   Amira Hass 17:15  |  Richard 09/08/06
  109.   Naughty words, naughty man 17:17  |  Mark Lincoln 09/08/06
  110.   3,333 Hezbollah rockets have hit Israel since start of fighting 17:19  |  Mark Lincoln 09/08/06
  111.   Human endurance 17:22  |  Philip G. Frey 09/08/06
  112.   to amira hass,south africa is a good example 17:27  |  rick 09/08/06
  113.   inertia 17:33  |  iris 09/08/06
  114.   re #108 Naughty words? sexual 17:35  |  Prof. Head 09/08/06
  115.   Amira Hass 17:37  |  Morgan 09/08/06
  116.   To Rick - Israel is Apartheid 17:37  |  Leb 09/08/06
  117.   Good to See You Back, Amira 17:37  |  Yaakov Sullivan 09/08/06
  118.   To Jacob 17:42  |  Naser 09/08/06
  119.   a source of info 17:47  |  randal 09/08/06
  120.   Resistance Jacob 17:47  |  Naser 09/08/06
  121.   Yaakov, you are mistaken 17:52  |  Michael 09/08/06
  122.   Why even endure? 17:57  |  Pablo 09/08/06
  123.   No, Michael that formula is doomed, as we see #121 18:01  |  Yaakov Sullivan 09/08/06
  124.   Every nation should have its own Amira Hass 18:03  |  Azman Ismail 09/08/06
  125.   Point of information Naser 18:08  |  Jacob Blues 09/08/06
  126.   thank you amira 18:08  |  FGA 09/08/06
  127.   Dutch`s love for palestinians 18:10  |  Sam 09/08/06
  128.   Oslo for Naser 18:13  |  Jacob Blues 09/08/06
  129.   to rick # 112 get youur acts right! 18:26  |  thomas 09/08/06
  130.   #120 To Naser 18:26  |  Yonatan Netser 09/08/06
  131.   To#110 Three Stooges 18:32  |  Yonatan Netser 09/08/06
  132.   Their power of endurance 18:37  |  shams haason 09/08/06
  133.   To Aaron Levitte # 52 I add my thanks to Amira too 18:44  |  Kameel 09/08/06
  134.   sirens and refuges #96 18:47  |  Silvia 09/08/06
  135.   Re: #24- A history lesson for the denier and naive - Part 1 18:48  |  The right view 09/08/06
  136.   Well, Yaakov, it worked before... 18:48  |  Michael 09/08/06
  137.   Re: #24- A history lesson for the denier and naive - Part 2 18:50  |  The right view 09/08/06
  138.   Thanks Haaretz 18:50  |  Red Smith 09/08/06
  139.   Amira, you are awesome 19:01  |  Amal 09/08/06
  140.   Amira Hass: Does Israel have to stay idle? 19:01  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  141.   to my brother Naser 19:01  |  gershon 09/08/06
  142.   Why this perpective is so unique 19:02  |  Rafi 09/08/06
  143.   laying down the rules 19:04  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  144.   Amira Hass, a lonely voice? 19:07  |  Miriam 09/08/06
  145.   Amira`s Poignant Remarks 19:11  |  Lou 09/08/06
  146.   What do I care about symmetry? 19:11  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  147.   Suicide attacks and symmetry 19:14  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  148.   Sorry, Michael, it isnt working anymore #136 19:21  |  Yaakov Sullivan 09/08/06
  149.   amira Hass, lonely voice? 19:22  |  FOX 09/08/06
  150.   144. Amira Hass "compassion" 19:28  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  151.   Their power of endurance 19:30  |  Ralph 09/08/06
  152.   4. Ahmed: the number of victims 19:37  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  153.   7. ravi: endurance... or despair... 19:39  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  154.   8. RW: Wrongly put 19:42  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  155.   Yonatan - the Mexicans don`t explode 19:47  |  Mark Lincoln 09/08/06
  156.   How else could Likud regain power? 19:50  |  Mark Lincoln 09/08/06
  157.   What a maroooon! 19:52  |  Michael S 09/08/06
  158.   #134 No Sirens in Qana, more death toll is better for Hez 19:58  |  GF 09/08/06
  159.   Bravo, courageous look at reality 20:01  |  THE HUMAN FACTOR 09/08/06
  160.   9.David: Judeophobia and manipulation 20:02  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  161.   Bravo! 20:03  |  a Sabra 09/08/06
  162.   KUTW 20:04  |  wibism 09/08/06
  163.   #134 No Sirens in Qana? 20:06  |  GF 09/08/06
  164.   13. Michael: A little thought 20:21  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  165.   If only the Arabs would not be obsessed... 20:21  |  frs 09/08/06
  166.   That`s what sovreignty is 20:26  |  David 09/08/06
  167.   Future of Palestinians 20:29  |  max smiley 09/08/06
  168.   She should be given a medal 20:41  |  Mary Coullet 09/08/06
  169.   What Amira Hass has done to me personally 20:43  |  omollll 09/08/06
  170.   Immunization against the Iranian fascism 20:45  |  BP Diplomacy 09/08/06
  171.   # 163 A ver si te enteras, chaval 20:47  |  Silvia 09/08/06
  172.   Peace 20:48  |  The right view 09/08/06
  173.   To all jewish fanatics who EMPOWER arab fanatics 20:59  |  shams haason 09/08/06
  174.   TOUGH GUY Tod Zuckerman 21:06  |  loza 09/08/06
  175.   What a maroooon! 21:19  |  Mark Lincoln 09/08/06
  176.   Fox you are lucky 21:22  |  Janice 09/08/06
  177.   To Ahmed, #4 21:28  |  David 09/08/06
  178.   Schlomo - #11 21:32  |  Richelle 09/08/06
  179.   Masada Complex-Reflex 21:37  |  Az-Oulay 09/08/06
  180.   What do you know FOX? 21:52  |  Janice 09/08/06
  181.   FAO Mary Coullet 21:58  |  Absolutpurple 09/08/06
  182.   171. Silvia, you are an occupier 22:01  |  Rashid 09/08/06
  183.   Amira `love my enemy` Hass 22:44  |  Mike 09/08/06
  184.   to exactly put #8 - safe & cozy in California 22:49  |  Chaim 09/08/06
  185.   Bravo Almira!!! 23:09  |  Seal(adaigh) 09/08/06
  186.   #150 KIM , Has it ever occur to you?.... 23:10  |  dutch 09/08/06
  187.   30. Silvia: Endurance 23:24  |  Kelmeyt 09/08/06
  188.   186. dutch: Has it ever occur to you?.... 23:33  |  KUTW 09/08/06
  189.   shams haason (173) 23:34  |  The right view 09/08/06
  190.   to dutch #186 23:36  |  Chaim 09/08/06
  191.   Lebanese endurance vs Israeli Vanity 23:36  |  Sandra 09/08/06
  192.   Bravo Amira 23:37  |  Maher 09/08/06
  193.   Janice, Janice, Janice 23:40  |  FOX 09/08/06
  194.   Janice re #180 23:43  |  FOX 09/08/06
  195.   Difficult case 23:47  |  Gene 09/08/06
  196.   162. wibism 00:02  |  KUTW 10/08/06
  197.   Santayana and the endurance of the Palestinians 00:16  |  Mauro V. Mendlowicz 10/08/06
  198.   #171 01:05  |  GF 10/08/06
  199.   The Collective Guilt 01:17  |  An Honest American 10/08/06
  200.   fascism 01:28  |  Shmuel Baran 10/08/06
  201.   #190 Chaim, 01:35  |  Dutch 10/08/06
  202.   TRAGICALLY PALS UNDER A CURSE FROM G-D :GENESIS 12:3 ?? 01:42  |  Bill. 10/08/06
  203.   Long Live Palastinians 01:43  |  William 10/08/06
  204.   To Bill No. 198 02:04  |  A Sane Muslim 10/08/06
  205.   Welcome Back Amira the sane Israeli 02:18  |  Dumbya 10/08/06
  206.   amira hass power of endurance 02:20  |  royal 10/08/06
  207.   Ignoring facts, the usual Haas 02:26  |  Jonathan 10/08/06
  208.   bill#199 02:40  |  rere 10/08/06
  209.   Re #184 03:42  |  RW 10/08/06
  210.   No israel 03:44  |  Faraz 10/08/06
  211.   Palestinian suffering is self inflicted 03:51  |  Nathaniel 10/08/06
  212.   todd 04:14  |  dan 10/08/06
  213.   Amira please NEVER change ! 04:44  |  David.Yankelowitz 10/08/06
  214.   Another Lord Haw Haw and Father Conklin 04:55  |  z 10/08/06
  215.   Dino 05:35  |  Bob 10/08/06
  216.   funding israel 05:36  |  sam cohen 10/08/06
  217.   Dino 05:37  |  Bob 10/08/06
  218.   Israel = New Orleans 05:52  |  Patrick 10/08/06
  219.   Amira, so are u saying, "good for you, you deserve this" 05:59  |  NYC Guy 10/08/06
  220.   To Mr. Murray 06:08  |  NYC Guy 10/08/06
  221.   Responding to THE RIGHT VIEW 06:19  |  shams haason 10/08/06
  222.   If there were a dozen Amiras there would be 06:21  |  NYC Guy 10/08/06
  223.   #173 06:24  |  Avrech 10/08/06
  224.   Amira, keep your voice loud! 06:28  |  Hermann 10/08/06
  225.   Persecution breeds persecution 06:53  |  PeterD 10/08/06
  226.   the power of self-delusion, rather! 06:59  |  ralph 10/08/06
  227.   I`ke Amira. She has correct perspective of current state of thing 07:13  |  Ah 10/08/06
  228.   the moral irrelevancy&history 07:23  |  sinai golan 10/08/06
  229.   To Bill #199 07:47  |  Shireen 10/08/06
  230.   AMIRA THE HUMAN SOUL 07:50  |  MARIA TORON 10/08/06
  231.   amira please tell me soon 07:58  |  it means nothing 10/08/06
  232.   #216 History in Hebron 08:26  |  GF 10/08/06
  233.   you`re my hero 08:32  |  Julie Dorf 10/08/06
  234.   Thank you Amira! 08:33  |  Mark Kienan 10/08/06
  235.   Fraser Smith 08:41  |  Connie 10/08/06
  236.   To Dumbya 08:45  |  Jonathan 10/08/06
  237.   OMG! 08:52  |  Christina 10/08/06
  238.   very wise Amira 09:05  |  Hassan 10/08/06
  239.   #223 09:34  |  The right view 10/08/06
  240.   to Shams Hasson on time is of essence 09:43  |  Anubhav 10/08/06
  241.   Thank you Amira Hass 09:43  |  Louis P. 10/08/06
  242.   FOX: Your "sources" on Amira, please 09:58  |  Angela 10/08/06
  243.   Leave her alone 10:02  |  Toronto nurse 10/08/06
  244.   *204 RERE 10:04  |  Bill. 10/08/06
  245.   236.Louis P.Amira Hass 10:12  |  KUTW 10/08/06
  246.   232Christina: Courage? 10:15  |  KUTW 10/08/06
  247.   233Hassan: I would be really worried if 10:16  |  KUTW 10/08/06
  248.   nyc guy 10:24  |  wibism 10/08/06
  249.   What drives you Amira? 10:53  |  Joey 10/08/06
  250.   Real Reporting 10:56  |  RBF 10/08/06
  251.   Yaacov Sullivan #123 11:05  |  Joey 10/08/06
  252.   moslems have a future in an india which perscutes them ?? 11:10  |  Rao 10/08/06
  253.   Islam is a religion of Peace? 11:22  |  mshammer 10/08/06
  254.   rao thank you 11:37  |  harzion 10/08/06
  255.   amira bugger off 11:39  |  harzion 10/08/06
  256.   please open an amira fund 11:42  |  harzion 10/08/06
  257.   amira never come back to us 11:43  |  harzion 10/08/06
  258.   To Shams Haason 11:52  |  Jack 10/08/06
  259.   Class 1947 12:24  |  Mario Fiorito 10/08/06
  260.   11:44 Infant critically wounded by rocket attack on western Galil 12:25  |  GF 10/08/06
  261.   11:44 Infant critically wounded by rocket attack on western Galil 12:30  |  GF 10/08/06
  262.   11:56 Girl, 2, killed by rocket attack on western Galilee village 12:37  |  GF 10/08/06
  263.   Thank you Amira! 12:58  |  Tero 10/08/06
  264.   Amira 13:09  |  Michel ibn Edouard 10/08/06
  265.   246 wibism 13:20  |  The right view 10/08/06
  266.   A compassionate voice 14:04  |  Brendan 10/08/06
  267.   To Brendan in Dublin 16:26  |  Jack 10/08/06
  268.   260 17:00  |  The right view 10/08/06
  269.   Amira Hass 17:21  |  Peter 10/08/06
  270.   Thank you, thank you, thank you 17:46  |  Yoav 10/08/06
  271.   to mshammer #253 01:21  |  zeev 11/08/06
  272.   Lots of venom 03:07  |  Bob 11/08/06
  273.   to Angela #242 04:17  |  zeev 11/08/06
  274.   truth 18:07  |  sam i am 13/08/06
  275.   Their power of endurance 17:50  |  shams haason 04/10/06
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