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And now, a fetus By Gideon Levy Tags: Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Advertisement It is obvious that Maha Katouni is still in a state of trauma. Wounded in the abdomen, she lies in bed, her elderly mother by her side. The tube in her nose makes it hard for her to speak. She is 30 years old and was in the seventh month of pregnancy, a mother who got up in the middle of the night to protect her three small children, sleeping in the other room, from the bullets that were whistling by outside. As soon as she got out of bed, the bullet struck her. Bleeding, she fell on the nightstand by her bed. Maha survived, but Daoud - as she and her husband planned to name their son - was removed from her womb with a bullet wound to the head. "And babies?" a reporter once asked an American soldier who had taken part in the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War. His succinct answer was just as chilling as the question. "Babies." And now, a fetus. The day before, I had been in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, accompanied by the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, comparing the horrors of apartheid to the Israeli occupation in the territories. The next afternoon I was here, in the Rafidiya maternity ward, standing before the bed of the wounded Maha, who had lost her baby. The biggest hospital in the territories is practically deserted, barely functioning. It has been this way for two months now. Like the other hospitals in the West Bank, Rafidiya accepts only emergency cases, because of the economic boycott of the Palestinian Authority, which also prevents the workers here from being paid. Only 20 of the hospital's 168 beds are currently occupied, and only about a third of the hospital's 380 staff members show up for work. In the emergency room we saw just one patient, who had arrived that morning. The rest of the beds were empty. In the past two and a half months, the workers have received just NIS 1,500 per person, from funds provided by the European Union. Hospital director Dr. Khaled Salah says that the staff and patients don't come to the hospital because of the difficulties in getting to Nablus and the cost of the trip, which has risen significantly because of the checkpoints. The Hawara checkpoint and the Beit Iba checkpoint, the two checkpoints on the city's outskirts, are relatively deserted, because of the difficulty in getting past them. Maha lies in bed, her eyes closed. A green headscarf covers her head. Her skin is ashen. Every once in a while she opens her eyes but then quickly closes them again. Once in a while she also murmurs a few words in a feeble voice and then goes quiet again. How are you? Silence. Maha is a resident of the Ein Beit Ilma refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus. She is married to Rifat, a 36-year-old school janitor, and the couple have three children: Jihad, 10; Jawad, 7; and Jad, 3. Two uncles and her mother watch over her, not budging from her bedside. For the father of the family, it's too hard to be here. He's still in shock. Last Wednesday was an ordinary day in the Katouni household. The father went to work, the kids went to school, and in the evening everyone went to bed - the parents in their bedroom and the three children in their room in the third-floor apartment. Shortly after two in the morning, Maha was startled awake by the loud sounds of gunfire from the street. She didn't even manage to turn on the light when she got up to run to the kids' room next door, to reassure her three little boys and keep them from getting scared. The gunfire was very heavy. The window of her room was open and her bed was close to the window. Maha got out of bed, took one step, and then the bullet struck her in the lower back. She fell onto the nightstand. Another bullet struck the nightstand. Soldiers from the Nahal patrol battalion were standing on the roofs of the surrounding buildings. "Wherever we are sent - to there we go," the poet Yaakov Orland once wrote in "The Nahal Anthem," sung by the Nahal entertainment troupe, which also sang "The Song of Peace." Rifat rushed to call an ambulance. The children, who had awakened, were hysterical, especially the youngest, 3-year-old Jad, at the sight of the blood trickling from the front and back of their pregnant mother, who lay wounded on the floor. The bullet had struck her from behind, passed through the fetus' head and the mother's intestines and exited through the abdomen. Family members say that about 45 minutes went by before the ambulance from the Medical Relief organization was permitted to approach. In the meantime, Maha's mother, Umm Ibrahim, tried to leave her home nearby to come to her daughter's aid. Umm Ibrahim says that when she tried to leave her house there was gunfire; she hurried back inside. "It's a miracle that I was saved," says the woman in the white headscarf. She could not reach her injured daughter and would not see her until two hours later, in the hospital. The pain is written all over Maha's face. One of her brothers somehow managed to cross the line of fire and get to her house; he tried to stanch the gaping wound in her stomach with a towel. Her husband, Rifat, was paralyzed with shock. Umm Ibrahim says that her son, who tended to Maha, could see through the hole in her abdomen that the fetus had been wounded in the head and was dead. The gunfire finally subsided at around three in the morning and they were able to take Maha out to the street, carried by her brother and the paramedic from the ambulance that had parked in the nearby alley. The brother says that on the way to the hospital they were stopped twice by soldiers, who wanted to check the wounded woman's identity and to make sure there were no wanted men hiding in the ambulance. Maha was barely conscious when she reached the hospital, but her mother says she understood right away that she had lost the baby. The family says the IDF enters the camp nearly every night and that there is almost always gunfire. Umm Ibrahim managed to get to the hospital at four in the morning, when her daughter was in the operating room and the dead fetus had already been removed. Dr. Ihab Shareideh was the surgeon who was summoned to the hospital in the middle of the night to operate on Maha. He says that her recovery has been more difficult and slower than usual, not only because of her injuries, but because of her traumatized mental state. Fortunately, not many blood vessels were injured, so the delay in getting her to the hospital did not cause further damage. It is too soon to gauge the extent of the damage to her digestive system, or to say whether she will be able to get pregnant again. The fetus died as a result of the bullet that penetrated its brain on the way to the mother's intestines. The anesthesiologist, Dr. Iyad Salim, a resident of nearby Hawara, roams the hospital corridors. On his cell phone camera is a video of the operation and the removal of the fetus. So close to being a fully developed baby, with a bullet wound to the head. The memorial poster shows the etus bleeding from the head. The image is unbearable. They were going to call him Daoud, after an uncle, and also after a resident of the camp who was killed. At home they had everything ready: new clothes, diapers and a crib passed down from his older brothers. Daoud was buried in the camp cemetery. Only a few close family members attended the funeral of the unborn baby. At press time, no response had been received from the IDF Spokesperson's Office. 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After the war IDF gains in Gaza have softened Israel's stance on Shalit deal.   1.   Gideon,get your lies straight 00:10  |  Absolute Sweden 20/05/07   2.   Whose bread you eat, his song you sing 00:27  |  no name 20/05/07   3.   Levy - One Truly Despicable Jew 00:27  |  Tod Zuckerman 20/05/07   4.   Levy ignores massacres commited by Palestinians on each other 00:53  |  Gili 20/05/07   5.   Don`t worry, the fetus is now a martyr 00:56  |  Black Death 20/05/07   6.   Sorry, this happens in a war 01:15  |  Jo 20/05/07   7.   Sheer horror 01:23  |  Guido 20/05/07   8.   to JO: Israle made that choice in 1948 01:37  |  JUDGE 20/05/07   9.   levy, you must be joking... 01:46  |  wildman 20/05/07   10.   Israeli bullet, or Fatah/Hamas bullet? 02:14  |  Jake 20/05/07   11.   Levy gave no shred of evidence IDF is responsible 02:29  |  Jake 20/05/07   12.   horrible responses 02:36  |  aboud 20/05/07   13.   Transparently fraudulent journalism 02:47  |  Dr. L. Brnd 20/05/07   14.   Pathetic 02:55  |  Adrian de Klerk 20/05/07   15.   who you really are 03:31  |  ants 20/05/07   16.   oh my how easy to keep from blaming the right sources: pals their 03:33  |  ralph 20/05/07   17.   Ever hear of Shalhevet Paz? 03:34  |  Disgusted 20/05/07   18.   Very poor journalism 03:46  |  Tzahi 20/05/07   19.   Compassion 03:50  |  Ricky 20/05/07   20.   Some humanity please! 03:54  |  Tzahi 20/05/07   21.   Horrible responses? 03:57  |  Jo 20/05/07   22.   guilty 04:41  |  Celeste 20/05/07   23.   A good Jew 04:45  |  Mike 20/05/07   24.   Well... 05:13  |  Colin Wright 20/05/07   25.   Out of the first eighteen responses... 05:23  |  Colin Wright 20/05/07   26.   to guido 05:34  |  angel 20/05/07   27.   Just an aobservation 05:34  |  EH 20/05/07   28.   This article is a pathetic lie written by an idiot 05:43  |  Gary A., MD 20/05/07   29.   u guys r pathetic 05:53  |  Kevin Scholes 20/05/07   30.   Your far from jews!!! 06:13  |  HM 20/05/07   31.   Gideon Levy 07:09  |  Connie 20/05/07   32.   Seeing through 07:15  |  Arnaldo 20/05/07   33.   To all the mothers 07:38  |  Arnaldo 20/05/07   34.   And now, a fetus 07:38  |  Angie 20/05/07   35.   daoud 07:58  |  Moshe 20/05/07   36.   I`d like to see one sentence from GL about the suffering 08:01  |  Mufasa 20/05/07   37.   Angie 08:05  |  Connie 20/05/07   38.   What these comments prove 08:07  |  MadridinNJ 20/05/07   39.   Absolute Sweden et al 08:09  |  RFE 20/05/07   40.   Also to Absolute Sweden 08:13  |  RFE 20/05/07   41.   responses 08:20  |  rose 20/05/07   42.   RFE & MadridinNJ: Why R U Generalizing? 08:30  |  Tzahi 20/05/07   43.   thank you tzahi 08:47  |  pele 20/05/07   44.   Neither Nablus nor Dresden have claim to Jewish tears 08:59  |  Dr. L. Brnd 20/05/07   45.   #1: and thewre is no evidence you HAVE A HEART. 09:21  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   46.   #1: and thewre is no evidence you HAVE A HEART. 09:21  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   47.   Haaretz Anti Jewish Propiganda again 09:23  |  Jew 20/05/07   48.   #6: you make me sick... 09:31  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   49.   Gideon`s bias 09:34  |  howiej 20/05/07   50.   why cant israelis ever admit cold-blooded murder? 09:38  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   51.   Tod 09:38  |  Mark Black 20/05/07   52.   Tzahi 09:41  |  Angel 20/05/07   53.   sheer horror 09:46  |  Mark Black 20/05/07   54.   why? ask yourselves and be honest 09:53  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   55.   #10: dont try the "doubt bull again. it was ISRAELI! 09:58  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   56.   mr levy is selfish 09:58  |  benito 20/05/07   57.   Fetus 10:10  |  Gabe 20/05/07   58.   Tzahi 10:16  |  RFE 20/05/07   59.   #47: its not propaganda. it the truth. live with it! 10:17  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   60.   C.Wright as the self appointed moral referee please give us-- 10:25  |  PETER SM 20/05/07   61.   #57: sarcasm... it NOT you! 10:33  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   62.   her eldest is named Jihad 10:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/07   63.   accidental killing of fetus 10:38  |  bob kirk 20/05/07   64.   JUDGE"Israel made the choice in 1948" for Arabs to ignore UN 10:40  |  PETER SM 20/05/07   65.   #50neutral-Did you ever call Palestinians cold-blooded?? 10:42  |  Ben 20/05/07   66.   #21: funnily enough, blame the fetus for being PALESTINIAN 10:48  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   67.   GIDEON VISITS MT SINAI BRINGS DOWN THE TABLET 10:50  |  paul harris 20/05/07   68.   To neutral-man and haaretz 10:54  |  observer 20/05/07   69.   It doesn`t matter what Levy says 11:00  |  Ronnie 20/05/07   70.   Levy`s Article 11:05  |  IHR 20/05/07   71.   "The fetus" dramatic storry. 11:07  |  S 20/05/07   72.   Gideon the clown Levy: "Is [it] manslaughter? Is it murder?" 11:17  |  Judge 20/05/07   73.   Some medical treatment for Levy, please! 11:23  |  Mr. So Sorry 20/05/07   74.   Levy 11:25  |  Ceaser 20/05/07   75.   Gideon Levy is a traitor. 11:25  |  Vittorio 20/05/07   76.   THANK you Levy 11:26  |  Sabra 20/05/07   77.   And now a fetus 11:29  |  Marlene 20/05/07   78.   Unbelievable! 11:30  |  Rudi 20/05/07   79.   And now, a fetus by Gideon Levy 11:32  |  David 20/05/07   80.   blah 11:32  |  christoph 20/05/07   81.   NEUTRAL MAN" it was israeli. israeli. israeli" how do you know? 11:33  |  PETER.SM 20/05/07   82.   Who pay$ get$ $erved! 11:36  |  Kid 20/05/07   83.   Thank you, G. Levy! What a day! 11:44  |  Prof. R. Schwecker 20/05/07   84.   Haaretz`s own `Evil , Israel-hating Gideon Levy` 11:49  |  Shalom Freedman 20/05/07   85.   fetus killed 11:52  |  alberto signorini 20/05/07   86.   Jo #6 11:54  |  wibism 20/05/07   87.   More than 40 killed by Hamas & Fatah, but Levy goes 4 the fetus! 11:56  |  Rosi 20/05/07   88.   Disgusted #17 12:02  |  wibism 20/05/07   89.   The great thing about Israel that EVERYONE should read 12:07  |  Yered Shmuel 20/05/07   90.   No peace possible 12:12  |  Angel 20/05/07   91.   # 67 hey paul? 12:14  |  eric 20/05/07   92.   #81: i`m GLAD you asked. here`s my answer... 12:14  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   93.   #82: i`ll an$wer you 12:16  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   94.   About Haaretz 12:17  |  Angel 20/05/07   95.   But Gideon.... The Left PROMOTES Abortion ! 12:23  |  Klaudia 20/05/07   96.   #65: you are the LAST person to educate me on ettiquette 12:23  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   97.   # 81 hey peter... 12:26  |  eric 20/05/07   98.   fetus - to "neutral" man - #66 12:35  |  Gabe 20/05/07   99.   Levy is Hamas` P.R manager 12:38  |  SystemF 20/05/07   100.   I would bet my last dollar ... 12:46  |  sickened 20/05/07   101.   Klaudia #94 12:53  |  wibism 20/05/07   102.   "Haaretz" = "the Country"! 12:53  |  Cohen 20/05/07   103.   Is this news? 12:57  |  Gershon 20/05/07   104.   Facts? 13:00  |  Daniel 20/05/07   105.   Same as it ever was 13:02  |  Natallie Durson 20/05/07   106.   Mordechai Vanunu?! 13:08  |  Victim of terror 20/05/07   107.   To the censors 13:10  |  Sarah 20/05/07   108.   We have it to good with Gideon Levy 13:25  |  Khalid Amayreh 20/05/07   109.   Levy, how do you know that the lost shot was not fired by Pals? 13:25  |  Moria 20/05/07   110.   #107 | @Sarah: Old story, indeed ... but: 13:30  |  Avraham 20/05/07   111.   Oh come on Gideon 13:31  |  D Hirod 20/05/07   112.   #107 | @Sarah: Old story, indeed ... but: 13:34  |  Avraham 20/05/07   113.   #107 | @Sarah: Old story, indeed ... but: 13:34  |  Avraham 20/05/07   114.   ERIC Modus operandi is proof??For you maybe. 13:36  |  PETERSM 20/05/07   115.   This article has many shortcomings 13:40  |  George 20/05/07   116.   Not an Informative Article 13:45  |  Walid 20/05/07   117.   Purple prose 14:13  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 20/05/07   118.   Palestinian terror caused it 14:17  |  Jane Bennet 20/05/07   119.   S and Walid 14:35  |  bev 20/05/07   120.   I agree - poor journalism 14:35  |  John Smith 20/05/07   121.   Usually born in camps, raised in camps until death. 14:40  |  Kenneth Brown 20/05/07   122.   An Artful Tale 14:42  |  J of Hollywood 20/05/07   123.   Self hate hits all time low 14:44  |  Laura 20/05/07   124.   What Is It With Haaretz? Do You Know Anything About Integrity? 14:53  |  massaraksh 20/05/07   125.   Another propaganda piece from Levy and Haaretz 14:54  |  Zev 20/05/07   126.   Very sad story, but the real "evil" is somewhere else to find.... 14:58  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/05/07   127.   Gideon 15:00  |  Ralph 20/05/07   128.   Margie in Tel Aviv 15:14  |  Walid 20/05/07   129.   Journalism of this sort 15:26  |  Tzfonit 20/05/07   130.   Walid 16:00  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 20/05/07   131.   Mr Levy, with the due respect. This is shameful 16:13  |  KUTW 20/05/07   132.   Gideon Levy,humane journalist,a moving story and one 16:42  |  Vijaya 20/05/07   133.   tradgic killing 16:44  |  izaak 20/05/07   134.   Margie in Tel Aviv 16:59  |  CHGODMK 20/05/07   135.   Needed: A cease fire and peace talks 17:01  |  Tosefta 20/05/07   136.   Mr. Levy do NOT dehumanize the unborn child by calling it a fetus 17:29  |  Timothy 20/05/07   137.   let`s call it the denial-reflex 17:33  |  peter 20/05/07   138.   Israel has made you inhuman. 17:48  |  Deborah 20/05/07   139.   this is `news`? 17:53  |  citizen zero 20/05/07   140.   And you believe the Palestinians? 18:02  |  C. LeFevre 20/05/07   141.   I pray to God no Palestinians read what you wrote today. 18:13  |  Timothy 20/05/07   142.   Neutral man -- familiar with your back yard? 18:16  |  Jo 20/05/07   143.   A Thousand Gideons 18:21  |  Ronnie Wolman 20/05/07   144.   Abnormal norms 18:23  |  sh 20/05/07   145.   To RFE: Apologies if I`m wrong 18:25  |  Tzahi 20/05/07   146.   My utmost condolences to Mrs. Katouni and her husband. 18:28  |  Timothy 20/05/07   147.   Who cares who`s bullet it was 18:34  |  William 20/05/07   148.   Do Zionists believe in God? 18:38  |  J.Sheremia 20/05/07   149.   Interesting 18:39  |  Colin Wright 20/05/07   150.   You`re right, Timothy 18:45  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 20/05/07   151.   #142: i would respond -and did- but haaretz is censoring! 18:46  |  neutral-man 20/05/07   152.   138. Deborah: On humanity 19:26  |  KUTW 20/05/07   153.   Is Gideon Levy a real person? 19:37  |  dovvod 20/05/07   154.   IF IT WASN`T ISRAEL, HAARETZ SHOULD BE REIMBURSED FOR PAYING LEVY 19:39  |  Mitch Iginer 20/05/07   155.   What`s Your Point, Mr. Levy? 19:43  |  Jeff Northridge 20/05/07   156.   to #154: we should also be showing... 19:52  |  nobody 20/05/07   157.   Gideon Levy`s Blood Libel 19:54  |  FOX 20/05/07   158.   oh jesus christ, obviously fighting a war isn`t pretty. 19:55  |  don 20/05/07   159.   #152. KUTW 19:57  |  Deborah 20/05/07   160.   In a parade of contest of useful idiots is on 20:00  |  TOMY 20/05/07   161.   Gideon`s true colors 20:11  |  Truly yours 20/05/07   162.   Deborah 20:14  |  Jasmine Murphy 20/05/07   163.   #153 Levy might be created by Haaretz 20:19  |  TOMY 20/05/07   164.   Deborah #159 20:39  |  S 20/05/07   165.   Fox, The problem isn`t Gideon Levy it`s the IDF 20:51  |  Dutch 20/05/07   166.   #146..Timothy 20:53  |  Nemesis 20/05/07   167.   Blaming the victims 20:58  |  W 20/05/07   168.   At least the kill wasn`t "confirmed" 20:59  |  Hassan 20/05/07   169.   #165 doris AND THE USUAL CLAPTRAP!!! 21:06  |  paul harris 20/05/07   170.   Why are there refugee camps inside the PA? 21:07  |  Ben Azai 20/05/07   171.   Neutral man -- why don`t you tackle the facts? 21:13  |  Jo 20/05/07   172.   Bradley Buston is Correct 21:20  |  Harris 20/05/07   173.   Blatent Anti-Israel Propaganda 21:23  |  Jane 20/05/07   174.   Kim, I can`t see where you get the gall to criticism Gideon Levy 21:24  |  Dutch 20/05/07   175.   Propagandist Unextraordinaire 21:26  |  Jane 20/05/07   176.   Doris Rides Her Broom Again 21:30  |  Jane 20/05/07   177.   Sderot Burns and Levy Writes This Piece of Crap 21:33  |  Jane 20/05/07   178.   Questionable Article - 2nd Try 21:36  |  Phinias Whoppy 20/05/07   179.   Haaretz Censoring My Posts 21:36  |  Jane 20/05/07   180.   Bradley Burston, Failed to take two important things into account 21:40  |  Dutch 20/05/07   181.   Who Would Doris Hate If Not For Jews? 21:40  |  Jane 20/05/07   182.   What is the point of the relentless assaults on Nablus? 21:43  |  Ben Alofs 20/05/07   183.   the only relirve 21:45  |  al 20/05/07   184.   Sicko 21:45  |  David 20/05/07   185.   #182 BEN THE AMAZING FLIES BACK FROM THE FUTURE 21:54  |  paul harris 20/05/07   186.   Crime against humanity 22:00  |  Joel in Albany 20/05/07   187.   Jane # 179 - I Believe the entire Article Is Fictitious 22:00  |  Phinias Whoppy 20/05/07   188.   #183 al 22:01  |  T A Sheppard 20/05/07   189.   pathetic 22:02  |  Abir 20/05/07   190.   Hatred 22:05  |  alex 20/05/07   191.   Jane and Jews Bashing - Remember Chris Rock 22:07  |  Phinias Whoppy 20/05/07   192.   I weep for this mother and her infant 22:07  |  sg 20/05/07   193.   Haaretz, where is my post to neutral-man? 22:12  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/07   194.   #141 Tim, i have read their responses ..... 22:12  |  Al Waleed Al Qudsi 20/05/07   195.   Ben Alofs - Presumably Your Stay In Nablus Is As fictious 22:13  |  Phinias Whoppy 20/05/07   196.   Israel is burying itself in war crimes 22:14  |  Joe 20/05/07   197.   Stray bullet? Think again. 22:15  |  Counter Argument 20/05/07   198.   Like Palestinians care about human life? 22:16  |  Paul Henzen 20/05/07   199.   A Tragedy 22:21  |  Alex 20/05/07   200.   Yes, it`s sad - but who IS to blame? 22:26  |  B`Galil 20/05/07   201.   Bad things happen in wars 22:32  |  Johnnymac 20/05/07   202.   Abir - yes pathetic but not like you say 22:33  |  dovvod 20/05/07   203.   #186, Whinias 22:37  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/05/07   204.   sickened 22:40  |  Connie 20/05/07   205.   T A Sheppard #187- hyprocrite extraordinaire 22:41  |  dovvod 20/05/07   206.   I was censored here 3 times 22:42  |  S 20/05/07   207.   A few questions.... 22:42  |  Cindy 20/05/07   208.   SHAHID FETUS - good rock band name! 22:46  |  Black Death 20/05/07   209.   #188 Abir I`m with you 22:47  |  T A Sheppard 20/05/07   210.   Gideon Levy 22:49  |  Edifice 20/05/07   211.   Jane and censorship 22:51  |  Connie 20/05/07   212.   #135 Thanks, Tosefta... 22:55  |  Ben Alofs 20/05/07   213.   #135 Thanks, Tosefta,... 22:58  |  Ben Alofs 20/05/07   214.   Levy`s attitude 22:58  |  Charles 20/05/07   215.   159. Deborah 23:01  |  KUTW 20/05/07   216.   # 194 - and pigs flew by... 23:12  |  Paul Henzen 20/05/07   217.   #205 dowod 23:14  |  T A Sheppard 20/05/07   218.   #206 What??? 23:16  |  T A Sheppard 21/05/07   219.   Dutch # 174 War And Peace 23:34  |  Jeff Northridge 20/05/07   220.   Phinias Whoppy-Gideon Levy is Real 23:35  |  Jane 20/05/07   221.   THE SOLUTION IS HERE! POLITICIANS, READ THIS! 23:45  |  Dudi 20/05/07   222.   Connie - Sad But True 23:45  |  Jane 20/05/07   223.   #179 Jane, My posts are olso are censored 23:57  |  TOMY 20/05/07   224.   The missing cool head (Ben Alofs #213) 23:58  |  Tosefta 20/05/07   225.   What happened to the Abominable Slowman? 00:01  |  Gideon Levy 21/05/07   226.   #208 Black Death 00:05  |  Joe 21/05/07   227.   Dopey Whoppy`s imagination #187 re Jane 00:06  |  Snow White 21/05/07   228.   To Ben Azai - Why are there refugee camps? 00:08  |  Counter Argument 21/05/07   229.   ARAB NATIONALISM,ISLAM MURDERED FETUS!!! 00:14  |  Moreh Tsedek 21/05/07   230.   Sinking, stinking, rotten... 00:15  |  Maureen Ann 21/05/07   231.   #195 Phineas Whoppy, are you fictitious? 00:39  |  Ben Alofs 21/05/07   232.   harritz 00:52  |  Connie 21/05/07   233.   A monstrous crime ! 00:55  |  Alan 21/05/07   234.   The missing cool head (Ben Alofs #213) 01:40  |  Tosefta 21/05/07   235.   # 36 Mufasa,# 14 Adrian de Klerk, # 17 Disgusted. WELL ,,, 01:11  |  Kath` 21/05/07   236.   The brutality of the IDF is well known, 01:12  |  Mark 21/05/07   237.   Slowman, you are way too slow 01:21  |  Me 21/05/07   238.   #224, really bad argument 01:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/05/07   239.   Joe in Ramallah - No Surprises Here 01:18  |  Jane 21/05/07   240.   The missing cool head (Ben Alofs #213) 01:26  |  Tosefta 21/05/07   241.   60 Year Refugees! 01:29  |  Jane 21/05/07   242.   #167 Re: A great Israeli tradition 01:30  |  Dutch 21/05/07   243.   # 210 Edifice. TO THE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE HERE... 01:30  |  Kath` 21/05/07   244.   Nutty leftwing column 01:37  |  Bill 21/05/07   245.   #226 01:43  |  Johnnymac 21/05/07   246.   Mark-Not Nearly Brutal Enough 01:46  |  Jane 21/05/07   247.   after sending many quassams to s`derot 01:48  |  maria 21/05/07   248.   53Mark Black ,you are a monster! 01:53  |  lakshmi 21/05/07   249.   BEN ALOFFS Whats the point of the relentless Qassems on Sderot? 01:53  |  PETER SM 21/05/07   250.   gideon and amira ...ought to write an article.... 01:55  |  maria 21/05/07   251.   95 Klaudia,are you a woman,you disgraceful..... 01:58  |  sara 21/05/07   252.   #215kutw...re. deborah 02:02  |  maria 21/05/07   253.   sg......I have a question for you... 02:14  |  maria 21/05/07   254.   and as usuals, Pals don`t recognize... 02:22  |  Nicolas from Paris 21/05/07   255.   Levy , such ugly is Arab urban terror attrition 02:40  |  Joseph E . 21/05/07   256.   Jaw bashing is deserved 02:46  |  Moe 21/05/07   257.   AT THE END OF THE DAY TRUTH AND JUSTICE WILL TRIUMPH 02:46  |  Vijaya 21/05/07   258.   Ben Alofs 02:56  |  Danite 21/05/07   259.   Tosefta and his rendition of jewish law 02:58  |  Danite 21/05/07   260.   irresponsible everything holy moley! 03:07  |  will 21/05/07   261.   Gross, out of context, and unfair to Israel 03:10  |  Jason 21/05/07   262.   It was an honor killing 03:18  |  Avrum 21/05/07   263.   It`s raining `Gideon Levy` Kassams 03:32  |  Domingo 21/05/07   264.   # 62 Cipora J.K WE KNOW THE EXCUSES... 03:40  |  Kath` 21/05/07   265.   WHAT ABOUT OTHER CHILDREN 03:50  |  TOBIA 21/05/07   266.   I`m waiting to see who says that killing terrorists before they 03:51  |  Apartheid 21/05/07   267.   Disgusting Zuckerman, No. 3 03:53  |  Mitch Cohen 21/05/07   268.   I hope Bradly noticed how many kind and thoughtful people posted 04:02  |  Apartheid 21/05/07   269.   Levy`s Angle 04:04  |  NDM 21/05/07   270.   And now, a fetus 04:13  |  Michael Katz 21/05/07   271.   # 148 04:18  |  female 21/05/07   272.   # 228 maria. FROM ME TO YOU.... 04:18  |  Kath` 21/05/07   273.   KUTW 04:29  |  John 21/05/07   274.   citizen zero 04:37  |  John 21/05/07   275.   Gideon, I support you 04:38  |  victor 21/05/07   276.   Timothy No.141 04:42  |  John 21/05/07   277.   William,more Hamas fault? 04:48  |  John 21/05/07   278.   Pathetic posters 05:18  |  Cleft Asunder 21/05/07   279.   @48, neitral man is a hamas pal 05:24  |  vladimir 21/05/07   280.   mr gideon levy you are a master mocker. 05:31  |  mhung 21/05/07   281.   it is so sentimental 05:32  |  vladimir 21/05/07   282.   mr gideon levy you are a master mocker (1) 05:33  |  mhung 21/05/07   283.   mr gideon levy you are a master mocker (2) 05:34  |  mhung 21/05/07   284.   Mark 05:44  |  Connie 21/05/07   285.   #194 Waleed 05:45  |  Lynn 21/05/07   286.   blame?! 05:46  |  ely 21/05/07   287.   IHR, @70, at least some respect from a muslim 05:47  |  vladimir 21/05/07   288.   Extremely poor journalism 06:17  |  Bob 21/05/07   289.   CENSORSHIP AT HAARETZ 06:37  |  Shalom 21/05/07   290.   #44, go back to kindergarten and learn what you missed 06:39  |  newageblues 21/05/07   291.   #95, the left promotes abortion??? 06:43  |  newageblues 21/05/07   292.   Gideo why not just move to Iran 06:45  |  Joseph 21/05/07   293.   ely #259 07:03  |  will 21/05/07   294.   Soldiers responsible should be tied behind Humvee and set alight 07:03  |  Yossi Cronenberg 21/05/07   295.   Hatred 07:23  |  Bill 21/05/07   296.   Is there any humanity left in Israel? 07:50  |  Equest 21/05/07   297.   # 279 Shalom, Israel must be held to account .. 07:55  |  Dutch 21/05/07   298.   Iran has passed nuclear threshhold 08:10  |  Shalom Freedman 21/05/07   299.   # 282 Joseph, What you seem to forget ... 08:59  |  Dutch 21/05/07   300.   Dutch Thea: my advice 08:12  |  Double Dutch 21/05/07   301.   TA Sheppard 08:16  |  Jasmine Murphy 21/05/07   302.   to my critics... i`d love to answer you, but i`m censored 08:19  |  neutral-man 21/05/07   303.   Joe of Ramallah 08:20  |  Jasmine Murphy 21/05/07   304.   Gideon`s fetus 08:31  |  S 21/05/07   305.   Got answer 08:33  |  Yusuf 21/05/07   306.   David/Daoud 08:39  |  Anna 21/05/07   307.   #171: jo, i LIVE the facts, my friend 08:41  |  neutral-man 21/05/07   308.   #275 08:44  |  Al Waleed Al Qudsi 21/05/07   309.   #65: in the remote case haaretz publishes this... 08:45  |  neutral-man 21/05/07   310.   #264, Kath* 08:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/05/07   311.   Haaretz Policy 08:50  |  Daniel 21/05/07   312.   poor Gideon 08:54  |  paul 21/05/07   313.   Levy the Traitor 08:56  |  no more 21/05/07   314.   273. John 09:03  |  KUTW 21/05/07   315.   252. maria 09:06  |  KUTW 21/05/07   316.   please convert to islam ASAP 09:31  |  Steve 21/05/07   317.   What next? 09:35  |  David Nigel Braham 21/05/07   318.   And now , a fetus 09:49  |  khader herzallah 21/05/07   319.   to #28 `Gary A, M.D.` 10:05  |  Colin Wright 21/05/07   320.   Gideon- Mercy and Compassion are Good Traits, But... 10:07  |  JewishHeart 21/05/07   321.   And #13 `Dr.` L.Brnd 10:08  |  Colin Wright 21/05/07   322.   One More Thing 10:11  |  JewishHeart 21/05/07   323.   re #294 `Soldiers responsible...` 10:19  |  Colin Wright 21/05/07   324.   re #309 `Neutral man` 10:24  |  Colin Wright 21/05/07   325.   Palestinian/israeli suffering 15:19  |  Najib Yusuf 21/05/07   326.   #325 Najib Yusuf... Well said! 16:06  |  T A Sheppard 21/05/07   327.   #307 neutral-man 16:14  |  T A Sheppard 21/05/07   328.   290New Age Blues,re:44,Dr.Byrn 16:15  |  sara 21/05/07   329.   The difference between Journalism and polemics 18:26  |  Jacob Blues 21/05/07   330.   To Angel 19:09  |  Guido 21/05/07   331.   reflections... 20:49  |  Michael 21/05/07   332.   # 309 neutral-man. WEEL SAID.IT HAS TO BE SAID.. 20:52  |  Kath` 21/05/07   333.   A voice in the wilderness 23:43  |  righteeo 21/05/07   334.   #328, Sara, thank you for these details 00:35  |  newageblues 22/05/07   335.   im amazed at the responses that come from people tucked up safe 02:44  |  Ragz 22/05/07   336.   Gideon, sensationalism or empathy? 03:59  |  Yehu 22/05/07   337.   Target 08:17  |  Ron 22/05/07   338.   And now, a fetus 10:18  |  Angie 22/05/07   339.   death of a fetus.... 11:43  |  zionist 22/05/07   340.   you disgust me! 14:45  |  Steve 22/05/07   341.   And now, a fetus 17:20  |  Angie 22/05/07   342.   fetus 17:26  |  michel wandel 22/05/07   343.   fetus shot dead 05:29  |  haq 23/05/07   344.   People were dehumanised like this before 16:39  |  Chris Linley 06/06/07

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