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Last update - 00:00 29/11/2006 The checkpoint generation By Amira Hass For nearly a month now, a young Palestinian has been hospitalized at Beilinson Hospital; soldiers shot him at a checkpoint in northern Nablus on Saturday, November 4. Haitem Yassin, 25, is conscious now, but he is still hooked up to a respirator. In recent days, he has been suffering from a high fever, apparently caused by an infection in his abdomen, which was wounded in the shooting. His family is still waiting for a report from the hospital about the number or type of bullets that caused the serious injury. At the Samaria Brigade, they are still investigating what happened that day at the fortified and isolated Asira al-Shmaliya checkpoint, through which only the inhabitants of several villages are permitted passage. However, according to testimonies taken by a researcher for B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, it emerges that Yassin had irritated the soldiers. He dared to suggest to them that their demand of women to feel their own bodies to carry out a "security check" was inappropriate. So annoying was he that a soldier shoved him. Yassin, who had returned from overseas a few months earlier, had apparently not yet internalized the fact that it is dangerous to remind a soldier that a Palestinian is a human being. When the soldier shoved, Yassin shoved back. The soldier, according to the testimonies, started to scream and curse and hit. He quickly received reinforcement from two other soldiers, who fired into the air and at the ground. Even though Yassin fell to the ground after the shooting, the soldiers, relate the witnesses, threw him onto a concrete block, handcuffed him and kicked him. They also kicked him in the head, according to the testimonies, and beat him with their rifles. Advertisement In a village in the Nablus area, S., another young Palestinian, is recovering from the trauma he suffered from a harsh beating at the hands of a soldier at the Jit checkpoint, midway between Nablus and Qalqilya. The office of the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman has stated that it was the young man who had shoved and hit a soldier who told him to return to his vehicle, whereas the soldier only fended him off, but the testimony of S. is completely different. He, like many others on that day, November 9, had got out of his vehicle while on the way to the Jewish settlement where he works, in order to find out why, just when everyone was hurrying to work, the line of cars at the checkpoint wasn't moving. According to one taxi driver, the soldiers announced that the cars would not be able to go through until noon. S., according to his own testimony, intended to return to his vehicle when the soldier approached him and looked as though he was going to hit him with his rifle. S. grabbed the rifle and pushed it aside. This apparently really bothered the soldier, who grabbed him, pulled him away from the rest of the people, flung him to the ground, and proceeded to him in all parts of his body. Including his head. Other soldiers, at the Beit Iba checkpoint west of Nablus, also got annoyed: At a student who felt he was suffocating among the mass of people who flocked to the checkpoint on October 9, and who felt the only way he could get some air was to climb a pole. When he refused to obey the soldiers' orders to come down, because there was no room and no air, they fell upon him and beat him with a rifle. According to the testimony of a friend, who spoke to an activist from Machsom Watch, the soldiers also broke his glasses and punished him: They detained him in "solitary confinement," in a kind of punishment cell into which the soldiers and the commanders throw Palestinians who "misbehave." The cell is intended for security suspects, but all too often people who dare to argue with the soldiers are thrown in there, or held in another sort of punishment cell at other checkpoints. In tens of thousands of homes in the West Bank live others, who may have not ended up in the hospital, but who every day accumulate harsh impressions of the nature and behavior of almost the only Israelis whom they encounter - the soldiers at the checkpoints. The non-Palestinians who pass through the checkpoints can also reach a similar conclusion - that most of the soldiers stationed at them are crude, arrogant, boastful and definitely hardhearted. All too often it appears that the soldiers intentionally cause the line of cars and people to dawdle at a checkpoint for a very long time. All too often they are seen laughing and grinning at the sight of the hundreds of people jostling and crowding in the slow line behind the narrow inspection turnstile. The Palestinians are not interested in, and do not need to be interested in, the explanations that Israel will give: It's a difficult mission; the soldiers are afraid; maybe someone will come bearing an explosive belt; they're young, still children; they're defending the homeland; if they weren't posted at checkpoints in the middle of the West Bank, suicide terrorists would be free to enter Israel. The truth is that even the soldiers' parents should not be interested in these explanations. They should, however, be very worried about their country sending their sons and daughters on an apartheid mission: to restrict Palestinian mobility within the occupied territory, to narrow the Palestinian expanse in order to enable Jews to move freely within that same occupied territory and in order to increase their expanse within it. In order to carry out this mission in full, facing the natives, the soldiers must feel and act like "superiors." Bookmark to del.icio.us   The King is dead Archeologists find new evidence for King Herod's tomb site. Al-Hasbara Israel launches Arabic YouTube channel to bypass Arab media.   1.   Interesting article 09:26  |  Matt 29/11/06   2.   MORE TOTAL HOGWASH FROM HA---ASS 09:38  |  paul harris 29/11/06   3.   machsom etiquette 09:40  |  whodey 29/11/06   4.   what an abuse of language 09:49  |  david 29/11/06   5.   there is always another day 09:51  |  shaun 29/11/06   6.   Amira Hass is a traitor (together with Gideon Levy) 10:00  |  Vittorio 29/11/06   7.   Not "apartheid", but preventing terrorism 10:01  |  Paul Henzen 29/11/06   8.   Israel beautifully summed up by Amira Hess, a mensch 10:01  |  Clickfool 29/11/06   9.   A brave reporter 10:01  |  Andrew Watson 29/11/06   10.   The fifth mother, and the lesson of S. Lebanon 10:16  |  DJStahl 29/11/06   11.   OK, Amira, just step to the side while the zionists grab the mike 10:18  |  Johnboy 29/11/06   12.   A question of legality 10:22  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   13.   and what would amira say about `occupation` -free aza 10:24  |  shraga 29/11/06   14.   Apartheid 10:25  |  David Menahem 29/11/06   15.   They have their own government...sure 10:30  |  RW 29/11/06   16.   The Movie "Checkpoint" 10:33  |  Baracka 29/11/06   17.   Amira Hass 10:37  |  JewishHeart 29/11/06   18.   How Zionists howl when the truth is told 10:38  |  Clickfool 29/11/06   19.   One day, you will say "thank you" to Amira 10:45  |  Yankelowitz 29/11/06   20.   So protecting women means being shot? 10:48  |  Marilyn 29/11/06   21.   There is no fence around the US 10:54  |  Marilyn 29/11/06   22.   Of Course Clickfool and Dino 11:03  |  JewishHeart 29/11/06   23.   No Marilyn, that is not Apartheid 11:13  |  David 29/11/06   24.   #16 Baraka has seen it all in a movie 11:20  |  Johnboy 29/11/06   25.   Jewish Heart is right 11:36  |  Kim 29/11/06   26.   To Paul Harris 11:36  |  David James Vickery 29/11/06   27.   Enough WHINING already about our "poor" ENEMY! 11:37  |  Yaakov K. 29/11/06   28.   Amira: Ask Yourself This Question! 11:37  |  Yosemite Sam 29/11/06   29.   another self-hating Jew 11:38  |  rz 29/11/06   30.   #16 "Checkpoint" movie 11:39  |  Tony Price 29/11/06   31.   Keep telling it as it is Amira.... 11:41  |  Maureen Ann 29/11/06   32.   S. 11:44  |  Fed Up 29/11/06   33.   Amira Hass 12:19  |  Claire G 29/11/06   34.   To Yaakov K. in Al-Quds re: Amira 12:19  |  David James Vickery 29/11/06   35.   Oh Amira! 12:20  |  Nechama 29/11/06   36.   To Amira Hass, Yankelowitz. Peace or not ? 12:20  |  Altalena 29/11/06   37.   Hass as usual violating basic journalistic principles 12:31  |  Jonathan S 29/11/06   38.   was there ever an isreali soldier judged ? 12:32  |  lola 29/11/06   39.   # 22 JewishHeart Wrong accusations !! 12:33  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   40.   Listen to Ex US President Jimmy Carter 12:37  |  Political 29/11/06   41.   Well said and done Amira 12:39  |  Ben 29/11/06   42.   Amira Hass dream of a Great Palestine 12:51  |  Dr D 29/11/06   43.   Some idiots here write some uncivilised posts about Amira 12:57  |  Tamir Gaza 29/11/06   44.   Not easy for the IDF soldiers 12:59  |  Haavard 29/11/06   45.   Amira Hass is a very honest and courageous Mensch 13:06  |  Mark B. 29/11/06   46.   paul harris re alternatives 13:17  |  dubious 29/11/06   47.   Amira - running out of topics to skew? 13:18  |  William 29/11/06   48.   to David (#23) 13:28  |  cf 29/11/06   49.   To Altalena with her ridiculous comments 13:36  |  Mark B. 29/11/06   50.   # 40 Political Jimmy Carter 13:42  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   51.   Amira: NOBODY wants this! 13:50  |  Jack 29/11/06   52.   FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN ASOLDIER!!! 13:59  |  paul harris 29/11/06   53.   Those innocent palestinians... 14:08  |  Cowboy Bob 29/11/06   54.   # 40 Political 14:11  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   55.   Amira Hass 14:13  |  Ronnie 29/11/06   56.   Dino 14:16  |  JewishHeart 29/11/06   57.   If they send women suicide bombers,women will be searched 14:16  |  PETER SM 29/11/06   58.   Bad Day for Amira Hass 14:18  |  JewishHeart 29/11/06   59.   Well CF, you`re wrong again 14:28  |  David 29/11/06   60.   Arabs are illegal immigrants 14:29  |  justice 29/11/06   61.   Surprise I agree with Dino 14:32  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 29/11/06   62.   #44 Haavard 14:34  |  whodey 29/11/06   63.   Amira, I fully support your point of view 14:37  |  Neville Chamberlain 29/11/06   64.   Jimmy Carter: Replacement theologist, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel 14:38  |  Yacov 29/11/06   65.   Great article 14:42  |  Maya Roth 29/11/06   66.   amira,again,transcend please. 14:45  |  you`re telling us?! 29/11/06   67.   Claire G, Yaakov K 14:48  |  whodey 29/11/06   68.   More fake Clickfools! 14:49  |  Clickfool 29/11/06   69.   aparhied 14:55  |  michael 29/11/06   70.   David, the occupation is clearly aparthied. 15:03  |  Ibrahim 29/11/06   71.   To 45, 49. Mark B. We remember 15:03  |  Altalena 29/11/06   72.   Texas Has CheckPoints Also 15:04  |  Johnny Weintraub 29/11/06   73.   Vittorio 15:09  |  Vittorio II 29/11/06   74.   Haavard (Post No. 44) 15:14  |  Johnny Weintraub 29/11/06   75.   For Clickfool # 18 15:18  |  Victor Smolinsky 29/11/06   76.   Will Hass soon praise 57 old grandmother suicide bomber? 15:25  |  Andre 29/11/06   77.   David Menahem # 14 New Word Needed 15:27  |  Jeff Northridge 29/11/06   78.   # 53 Jewish Heart 15:30  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   79.   Apartheid IS as Apartheid DOES! 15:31  |  Benjamin 29/11/06   80.   Amira "one note" Hass 15:36  |  David 29/11/06   81.   William and his IDF pride #47 15:37  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   82.   Jimmy Carter - - Peanut Brain 15:46  |  George Kaplan 29/11/06   83.   hass,harris,hassles 15:49  |  victoria amos 29/11/06   84.   # 56 Margie in Tel Aviv 15:50  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   85.   thanks amira hass 15:52  |  muammar 29/11/06   86.   ISRAELIS....THANK GOD YOU`VE GOT SOMEONE LIKE AMIRA! 15:57  |  Jeremy 29/11/06   87.   If this is Apartheid, the West is full of it 15:57  |  Jonathan S 29/11/06   88.   # 70 Ibrahim 15:58  |  Josef 29/11/06   89.   So what. 16:06  |  David Nigel Braham 29/11/06   90.   Haitem Yassin 16:07  |  KUTW 29/11/06   91.   Soldiers and human beings 16:08  |  KUTW 29/11/06   92.   To 75 & 77. Benjamin. Correct context 16:10  |  Altalena 29/11/06   93.   Benjamin ibn XXXXXXX 16:11  |  Gabe1 29/11/06   94.   The checkpoint generation 16:12  |  KUTW 29/11/06   95.   dubious # 46 Alternatives 16:13  |  Jeff Northridge 29/11/06   96.   it is not enough 16:14  |  Joe 29/11/06   97.   1Matt: Interesting 16:17  |  KUTW 29/11/06   98.   CHECKPOINT MOVIE 16:21  |  simon 29/11/06   99.   correction 16:22  |  Maya Roth 29/11/06   100.   3. whodey: What?s so strange? 16:23  |  KUTW 29/11/06   101.   the truth hurts 16:25  |  levi 29/11/06   102.   9. Andrew Watson: the reporter 16:27  |  KUTW 29/11/06   103.   # 65 Maya Roth 16:28  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   104.   George Kaplan Can Explain it, so listen...#82 16:34  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   105.   A voice crying in the wilderness 16:39  |  Equality 29/11/06   106.   #6 No vittorio, she`s not a traitor 16:39  |  Rebekah S 29/11/06   107.   Foam, foam and more foam. 16:42  |  Momo 29/11/06   108.   #34: It`s called "Yerushalayim." JEWISH property. 16:43  |  Yaakov K. 29/11/06   109.   12 Swiss (Dino): A question of legality 16:43  |  KUTW 29/11/06   110.   85. muammar 16:53  |  KUTW 29/11/06   111.   Altalena as the Ostrich #92 16:55  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   112.   to 101 16:55  |  Joe 29/11/06   113.   43. Tamir Gaza 16:57  |  Kelmeyt 29/11/06   114.   To George Kaplan about Jimmy Carter 16:58  |  Jonathan S 29/11/06   115.   Checkpoints were a result, not a cause of terrorism 17:00  |  RA 29/11/06   116.   Yaakov K and "His" Homeland #108 17:00  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   117.   My,my. Must be "MORALISTS DAY" again... 17:05  |  bat yam 29/11/06   118.   Hass, Amira 17:08  |  Barbie 29/11/06   119.   #3 David, you are wrong. 17:08  |  p 29/11/06   120.   what a joke! 17:09  |  soldier boy 29/11/06   121.   # 109 KUTW 17:11  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   122.   Yaakov K. blinded by racist and ignorant rage. 17:11  |  p 29/11/06   123.   Gabe 1 17:16  |  Walid 29/11/06   124.   Amira doesn`t worry when boarding a bus 17:23  |  peter 29/11/06   125.   To Dino 17:25  |  Maya Roth 29/11/06   126.   Information Please 17:25  |  Margie in US 29/11/06   127.   TRAITORS 17:32  |  CHRIS 29/11/06   128.   121Swiss (Dino) 17:33  |  KUTW 29/11/06   129.   david your language is more abusive rhetoric 17:36  |  Palestinian 29/11/06   130.   Wrong is Wrong! 17:37  |  ODP 29/11/06   131.   Walid #123 17:41  |  Gabe1 29/11/06   132.   What to say about Amira... 17:41  |  Liz Biggin 29/11/06   133.   Peter #124 Well said 17:42  |  Avi Yerushalmi 29/11/06   134.   Gabe1 17:49  |  ODP 29/11/06   135.   123. Walid 17:56  |  KUTW 29/11/06   136.   ODP 18:00  |  Walid 29/11/06   137.   Amira, are you sad the suicide bombers can`t enter? 18:05  |  Gina 29/11/06   138.   Haaretz will be rewarded when we destroy Israel 18:07  |  Haniyeh and Meshal 29/11/06   139.   Suddenly the woman from Cincinnati... 18:07  |  Avi Yerushalmi 29/11/06   140.   The truth is 18:07  |  emad Matahin 29/11/06   141.   Gabe 1 18:09  |  Walid 29/11/06   142.   # 72 checkpoints 18:21  |  dre 29/11/06   143.   #24 Checkpoints Movie and Terror 18:28  |  Baracka 29/11/06   144.   Kim from Melbourne 18:30  |  TOMY 29/11/06   145.   MISS HASS IS AN AVERAGE WRITER WHO STIRS THE POT 18:30  |  HAL TRIPP 29/11/06   146.   #46 3rd attempt to answer dubious about human beings 18:38  |  paul harris 29/11/06   147.   Walid 18:40  |  ODP 29/11/06   148.   #11 JOHNBOY WAHT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AHOMELAND AND A COUN 18:47  |  paul harris 29/11/06   149.   #112 Joe in Albuquerque 18:49  |  Guy From NYC 29/11/06   150.   # 128 KUTW 18:53  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   151.   Re: Paul Harris and his Womens Liberation Campaign 18:55  |  Guy From NYC 29/11/06   152.   Re: Paul Harris and his Womens Liberation Campaign 18:55  |  Guy From NYC 29/11/06   153.   To Baracka 18:55  |  lola 29/11/06   154.   The truth will set us all free unless we refuse to face it 19:00  |  Hadassah H. 29/11/06   155.   151. Swiss (Dino) 19:00  |  KUTW 29/11/06   156.   It Is Called War 19:02  |  John Weinberg 29/11/06   157.   ODP 19:03  |  Walid 29/11/06   158.   to #7 `Not apartheid but preventing terrorism.` 19:03  |  Colin Wright 29/11/06   159.   apartheid in saudi arabia 19:16  |  amazed again 29/11/06   160.   Margie in US # 126 That`s Where the Milk & Honey Is 19:18  |  Jeff Northridge 29/11/06   161.   Amira is spot on! 19:20  |  Ben Alofs 29/11/06   162.   #52 Paul Harris 19:27  |  anat 29/11/06   163.   May God bring peace between Palestinians and Israelis very soon 19:27  |  Tamir Gaza 29/11/06   164.   to amazed again 19:30  |  emad matahin 29/11/06   165.   pan-arabism and david vs goliath 19:30  |  peter 29/11/06   166.   to #160 19:30  |  Mertel 29/11/06   167.   joe you made my point about Israel 19:32  |  levi 29/11/06   168.   Against Generalization 19:34  |  BP DIP 29/11/06   169.   Walid 19:36  |  ODP 29/11/06   170.   connie I agree with you 19:36  |  bev 29/11/06   171.   re: amazed again: apartheid in saudi arabia 19:36  |  Guy From NYC 29/11/06   172.   tsk, tsk 19:39  |  Michael 29/11/06   173.   David from Kvar Sava 19:40  |  Janice 29/11/06   174.   # 156 KUTW 19:43  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/11/06   175.   Don`t argue or raise a hand with any policeman in any country! 19:47  |  Jed 29/11/06   176.   tsk, tsk, shame on those Palestinians who have had enough #174 19:50  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   177.   Swiss(Dino 19:51  |  ODP 29/11/06   178.   no ODP, you are wrong 19:51  |  harold 29/11/06   179.   QUOTES FROM THE GUARDIAN PAPER,WHAT A PERVERTED JOKE 20:01  |  HAL TRIPP 29/11/06   180.   # 173 apartheid 20:03  |  Chris 29/11/06   181.   ODP & Walid 20:04  |  Gbae1 29/11/06   182.   It`s very simple - you don`t like checkpoints, STOP TERRORISM 20:08  |  Mertel 29/11/06   183.   Seems to be more the opposite Chris #182 20:13  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   184.   Harold 20:18  |  ODP 29/11/06   185.   Mertel, perhaps you should rephrase your question #184 20:21  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   186.   Gabe1 20:27  |  ODP 29/11/06   187.   Ben Alofs - should the soldiers have access to the Red Cross 20:28  |  Gina 29/11/06   188.   Gabe 1 20:38  |  Walid 29/11/06   189.   # 185 "Yaacov" Sullivan 20:38  |  Chris 29/11/06   190.   40:Carter`s book is bogus 20:39  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   191.   Arab Apartheid against Jews 20:42  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   192.   #187 Yaakov, perhaps Israel should self destruct 20:45  |  Mertel 29/11/06   193.   Walid # 159 Palestinian Refugees 20:46  |  Jeff Northridge 29/11/06   194.   #122 - Sorry, CHUM"p!" 20:46  |  Yaakov K. 29/11/06   195.   185 - who rejected peace? 20:51  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   196.   166 Muslims have rights in Israel 20:53  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   197.   Hal Tripp who wants to kill the messsenger 20:54  |  Janice 29/11/06   198.   Chris and his Myopia #191 20:54  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   199.   I`m sure Amira Hass will win awards for this... 20:56  |  Moises (a Jew) 29/11/06   200.   Sullivan tell us what the arabs should do 20:57  |  peter 29/11/06   201.   Guy from NY is right 20:59  |  Nathan 29/11/06   202.   Ibrahim 20:59  |  Danite 29/11/06   203.   The vicious "Yaakov" 21:02  |  Danite 29/11/06   204.   To Yaakov S.. Change the music 21:02  |  Altalena 29/11/06   205.   emad matahin 21:04  |  Gina 29/11/06   206.   Jeff- how about UN Res. 194? 21:05  |  Janice 29/11/06   207.   Jimmy Carter speaks for Americans 21:07  |  Nathan 29/11/06   208.   Walid hello 21:08  |  Danite 29/11/06   209.   gabe1 chill out 21:12  |  Danite 29/11/06   210.   Jeff Northridge#195 21:15  |  Danite 29/11/06   211.   To JOhnny Weintraub 21:15  |  Nathan 29/11/06   212.   Walid Reply to gabe 21:15  |  Gabe1 29/11/06   213.   Bruiah Sarah - Jimmy Carter is being read 21:22  |  Nathan 29/11/06   214.   this sort of thing 21:28  |  Rose 29/11/06   215.   #201 Moises 21:30  |  Metatron 29/11/06   216.   The Checkpoint Generation 21:30  |  David 29/11/06   217.   What else you want 21:33  |  Dan 29/11/06   218.   #192 Bruriah Sarah 21:36  |  Boycott 29/11/06   219.   Walid-Moderate 21:40  |  GHMY1 29/11/06   220.   slanted reporting 21:41  |  SHO 29/11/06   221.   Mertel, then Israel Simply has no future#194 21:48  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   222.   Walid #190 21:49  |  Gabe1 29/11/06   223.   202 - Good point 21:53  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   224.   Peter of Montreal and what the Arabs Can do #202 21:54  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   225.   176 Swiss (Dino) 21:55  |  KUTW 29/11/06   226.   ODP #188 21:58  |  Gabe1 29/11/06   227.   For Amira Hass 22:08  |  Gullible Cynic 29/11/06   228.   205 - Faulty Logic 22:14  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   229.   stagnation 22:15  |  chaia 29/11/06   230.   210 - Nope you are wrong 22:15  |  Bruriah Sarah 29/11/06   231.   the check point 22:21  |  howard Jay 29/11/06   232.   thank you danite for your kind words #205 22:24  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   233.   Altalena and the assumption of Israel`s generous response 22:29  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/11/06   234.   Yaakov Sullivan #224 22:33  |  Avi Yerushalmi 29/11/06   235.   For Michael in Canada, # 69 22:33  |  Gullible Cynic 29/11/06   236.   Gabe1 22:41  |  ODP 29/11/06   237.   Amira Hass, Thank you for being the voice of the Palestinians 22:44  |  Nasser 29/11/06   238.   #208 janice and selective reasoning 22:45  |  peter 29/11/06   239.   Dino the Swiss Cheese Guy #176 22:50  |  Gabe1 29/11/06   240.   #52 Paul Harris I understand what you are saying 22:53  |  Maureen Ann 29/11/06   241.   #231 chaia 22:58  |  Boycott 29/11/06   242.   #209 Nathan We saw Jimmy Carter on Australian.... 23:18  |  Maureen Ann 29/11/06   243.   palestinians have been to palestine for thousand years 23:31  |  maria 29/11/06   244.   Danite, the similarities with Aparthied are OBVIOUS 23:38  |  Ibrahim 29/11/06   245.   To 215, 223 Nathan & Yaakov S. The future belongs to Israel 23:41  |  Altalena 29/11/06   246.   Danite "chickens and eggs" 23:41  |  Ibrahim 29/11/06   247.   tamir gaza 23:44  |  maria 29/11/06   248.   Margie inU.S. 23:49  |  John 29/11/06   249.   Haitem Yassin is an enemy - he should be transferred out! 23:51  |  Yehuda maccabbee 29/11/06   250.   Janice # 208 UNGAR 194 23:57  |  Jeff Northridge 29/11/06   251.   Danite 00:00  |  Walid 30/11/06   252.   Checkpoints 00:01  |  Schtarker Yid 30/11/06   253.   #189 Gina 00:16  |  Ben Alofs 30/11/06   254.   Gabe 1 00:28  |  Walid 30/11/06   255.   oh, and 1 other thing ODP 00:29  |  harold 30/11/06   256.   #215 - Nathan -Carter the failed Presidency 00:32  |  * BEN JABO 30/11/06   257.   #183, Gabe 1 and Brute force of Arabs 00:57  |  BouSameer 30/11/06   258.   Howard Jay...you`ve been poisened... 00:58  |  Ibrahim 30/11/06   259.   jeff northridge re alternatives 01:02  |  dubious 30/11/06   260.   paul harris re treating like human beings 01:16  |  dubious 30/11/06   261.   Unidentified gunmen attacked several Internet cafes 01:51  |  Mr. Ami Goldman 30/11/06   262.   Jeff Northridge on UNGAR 194 01:53  |  peter 30/11/06   263.   Amira, the bright side of Israel! 01:54  |  Marhaba 30/11/06   264.   #235, MAUREEN ANN, WHAT BOTTON? 01:57  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 30/11/06   265.   # 2 Paul Hariss. MORE HOGWASH AND BULL... 02:00  |  Kathy 30/11/06   266.   Israelis put salt in our seawater so we can`t drink it!! 02:06  |  Ahmad 30/11/06   267.   Sorry HAL TRIPP in Montreal 02:09  |  David James Vickery 30/11/06   268.   the truth 02:11  |  sam i am 30/11/06   269.   The "A" Word 02:23  |  Mark of Lewiston 30/11/06   270.   Where were the" apartheid" missions before the suicide bombers? 02:28  |  PETER SM 30/11/06   271.   #264 Cipora Julianna Kohn BUTTON 02:39  |  Maureen Ann 30/11/06   272.   Avi,YOU COULD DISCUSS 02:44  |  John 30/11/06   273.   What all you fascists who attack Amira .. 02:50  |  Reuben Jacobs 30/11/06   274.   PETER of Montreal.Re #194.Joseph`s tomb trashed is an example 02:54  |  PETER SM 30/11/06   275.   ignorant use of terms 03:04  |  KT 30/11/06   276.   Amira, WHAT A ROTTEN ARMY 03:06  |  Dutch 30/11/06   277.   whodey in Cincinnati 03:08  |  KT 30/11/06   278.   apartheid will result in a one-state solution 03:08  |  Daniel 30/11/06   279.   for Schtarker Yid 03:27  |  Gullible Cynic 30/11/06   280.   #224 Sullivan on what the arabs can do 03:30  |  peter 30/11/06   281.   Compare #270 PETER SM with #273 Reuben Jacobs 03:31  |  Johnboy 30/11/06   282.   #271, MAUREEN ANN, you have a nerve 03:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 30/11/06   283.   Amira: Think before you write! 03:37  |  Giora 30/11/06   284.   #244 Ibrahim, the point about occupation 03:39  |  Johnboy 30/11/06   285.   William is absolutly write 03:40  |  TOMY 30/11/06   286.   dubious # 253 How Widespread Is It? part II 03:57  |  Jeff Northridge 30/11/06   287.   peter who obviously has not read 194 03:57  |  Janice 30/11/06   288.   Brave but expected 04:02  |  Omar 30/11/06   289.   196.- muslim have rights in Israel 04:20  |  juan 30/11/06   290.   peter # 262 UNGARs 04:28  |  Jeff Northridge 30/11/06   291.   18 year old israeli soldiers 04:31  |  hipolito 30/11/06   292.   Amira and Apartheid 04:33  |  Michael 30/11/06   293.   Walid 04:36  |  Gina 30/11/06   294.   Ben Alofs 04:44  |  Gina 30/11/06   295.   Amira , you are a sunshine against the darkness 04:49  |  Clickright 30/11/06   296.   to jewish heart 04:51  |  fadi 30/11/06   297.   Ibrahim 04:52  |  Danite 30/11/06   298.   Ahmad # 266 That Was Funny! 04:53  |  Jeff Northridge 30/11/06   299.   Palestinians should start being "interested" 04:53  |  Voice of Reason 30/11/06   300.   Reply to Nathan (Post 211) 04:58  |  Johnny Weintraub 30/11/06   301.   Walid 05:02  |  danite 30/11/06   302.   to claire g 05:06  |  fadi 30/11/06   303.   janice who obviously has not read 194 05:07  |  peter 30/11/06   304.   Amira for PM(Rosh Memshalah) 05:13  |  Amir 30/11/06   305.   another mis-step of janice 05:15  |  peter 30/11/06   306.   Walid #254 05:24  |  Gabe1 30/11/06   307.   Dutch # 276 Senility Is Inevitable 05:26  |  Jeff Northridge 30/11/06   308.   ODP #236 05:39  |  Gabe1 30/11/06   309.   Give me a break 05:48  |  johnny 30/11/06   310.   Marilyn yuo saw the wrong moovi 06:02  |  Victor 30/11/06   311.   An example of incitement 06:04  |  mazeartist 30/11/06   312.   Janice # 280 I Tried To Explain This Before 06:09  |  Jeff Northridge 30/11/06   313.   Walid #254 06:12  |  Gabe1 30/11/06   314.   The checkpoint and Apparteid mission 06:14  |  Shmuelshachor 30/11/06   315.   Amira, please write more frequently. 06:34  |  Timothy 30/11/06   316.   Danite 06:34  |  Walid 30/11/06   317.   Gabe 1 07:00  |  Walid 30/11/06   318.   free press v. the last man 07:35  |  g. s. groce 30/11/06   319.   to Zionist Jewish heart 07:40  |  hollingsworth 30/11/06   320.   The checkpoint generation 07:47  |  David Macarov, Ph.D. 30/11/06   321.   #271, Maureen Ann 07:47  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 30/11/06   322.   to 163 Tamir Gaza: Amen! 07:51  |  Hadassah H. 30/11/06   323.   To Ibrahim 08:01  |  Daniel Leopold 30/11/06   324.   LISTEN TO THE GURU 08:08  |  Swami 30/11/06   325.   #318 Cipora Julianna Khon, Wake up! 08:22  |  Maureen Ann 30/11/06   326.   #317 - Macarov 08:22  |  * BEN JABO 30/11/06   327.   to Guy from NYC on apartheid in Saudi 08:23  |  Anubhav 30/11/06   328.   Dignity or Death 08:33  |  Paul 30/11/06   329.   Examples of Arab tolerance of others 08:37  |  * BEN JABO 30/11/06   330.   #325, Maureen Ann 08:52  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 30/11/06   331.   To Altalina 09:03  |  Big 30/11/06   332.   Re:Anubhav on apartheid saudi 09:10  |  Guy From NYC 30/11/06   333.   Amira et al. , before Checkpoints, there were Checkposts in ... 09:13  |  zayyin ba ayin 30/11/06   334.   Ibrahim 09:14  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 30/11/06   335.   Vickery 09:15  |  fishface 30/11/06   336.   Mark of Lewiston 09:20  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 30/11/06   337.   Amira Hass, a child of frustrated communist parents who 09:27  |  zayyin ba ayin 30/11/06   338.   Self Hating 09:29  |  David 30/11/06   339.   to Walid re 317:I agree with your dream of peace, however 09:46  |  Hadassah H 30/11/06   340.   to 338 David 10:15  |  Hadassah H 30/11/06   341.   Mark B..may be Altalena is right..for they are cowards 11:03  |  kameel 30/11/06   342.   What better way to indoctrinate 11:30  |  Eric 30/11/06   343.   All checkpoints should have webcams 12:05  |  John 30/11/06   344.   Self Hatred? 12:08  |  Maya 30/11/06   345.   The IDF cycle of silence 12:19  |  Maya 30/11/06   346.   to Guy from NYC 12:35  |  Anubhav 30/11/06   347.   SEND IN THE GURKHAS! 13:48  |  Simon 30/11/06   348.   Amira, I FEEL UTTERLY ASHAMED ... 15:33  |  Dutch 30/11/06   349.   "Hass" is German for "Hate" 15:38  |  Adriana Perez 30/11/06   350.   #348-SHAME ON YOU!!!! 16:07  |  Simon 30/11/06   351.   Jeff Nothridge , who is really sick? 16:12  |  Dutch 30/11/06   352.   Let the Palestinians Vote!!! 16:49  |  dan 30/11/06   353.   "..a minority of soldiers," Simon? 19:17  |  hollingsworth 30/11/06   354.   #6 Vittotio, The Real Traitors .... 19:29  |  Dutch 30/11/06   355.   #348 "Dutch": care to explain your intent in your writing this ? 20:59  |  abused altar boy 30/11/06   356.   yes, Hollingsworth,a minority! 21:06  |  Simon 30/11/06   357.   336 Margie in Tel Aviv 22:38  |  Mark of Lewiston 30/11/06   358.   The truth is..not apartheid..but rather... 23:04  |  Michael Greenberg 30/11/06   359.