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April 7, 2002
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Philip Farruggio
War, Snake Oil and Circuses
Viktor
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Patrick Cockburn
CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields
May Herald Attack
Walt Brasch
Oil
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Ralph Nader
Campaign Finance Sham
Sam Bahour
The
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In
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Nancy Stohlman
The Invasion of Bethlehem
and Our Tax Dollars at Work
Beth Daoud
The
Siege of Bethlehem:
"What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?"
Fareed Marjaee:
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/ Weissman
Philip
Morris to Canada:
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Alex Lynch
Tampa Campus Mirrors
Middle East Strife
Alexander
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Sharon's
Wars: How the
News Gets Through
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of the Nativity
Mike Leon
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Tom Turnipseed
Stop the Killing Now!
Nancy
Stohlman
An
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Christopher Reilly
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Alam
The
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Dear Loathsome Trade Hacks
Bernard
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An
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About His Shame
David Vest
Sting of Stings
Tzaporah
Ryter
Under
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America's Bravest
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Of
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Robert Fisk
The Siege of Bethlehem
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The
Sins of the Church
April 2, 2002
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Murdering Arafat?
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Lev Grinberg
Israel's State Terrorism
Norman
Madarasz
Bullying
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Robert Fisk
Farce and Terror
in Ramallah
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Let's
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Peace
and Nuclear Disarmament: a Call to Action
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Bloodshed in Palestine:
A Way Out
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Secours
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The Making of Exile
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The Big Lie:
Palestine, Palestinians
and International Law
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Flaherty
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April 7, 2002
Accompanying Ambulances in Bethlehem:
"I
hoped that if the tank fired on us it would be quick and painless"
By Beth Daoud
in Bethlehem
Bethlehem: Today I joined twenty internationals
in an attempt to accompany a Red Crescent ambulance to get food
and medicine to the injured into the Church of the Nativity.
Ambulances are going out but not to where they're desperately
needed, such as the nearby refugee camps (Deheishe, Azzeh, Ayda)
and Manger Square.
Departing from the main Bethlehem Hospital
we encircled the ambulance as it slowly made its way down the
street. Signs we carried read, "4th Geneva Convention,
Article 3 - The Wounded and The Sick Will Be Collected and Care
For," "Peace" and the Red Cross symbol. We got
about 50 yards from the Church before we were confronted by
Israeli soldiers and tanks who fired either live ammunition
in the air or threw a sound grenade at us.
A tank positioned its turret and gun
directly at us. Normally this would not have scared me but recently
the Israeli soldiers have been shooting internationals and
journalists. I felt very scared at this point. I had to look
down at the ground to control my fear. I hope that if the tank
fired on us would be quick and painless.
We sent a negotiator who spoke Hebrew
down to where the soldiers were to try to get permission for
our group to go in o the Church. We were told no one could go
in. We were also told by the soldiers that "the injured
were being cared for, and food and water were being supplied
to those inside the church" - a blatant lie. People inside
the church have said that Palestinian resistance fighters did
come in but they agreed to put their guns down when they were
in the church.
After several more attempts at convincing
the soldiers to let us into the church and then being denied,
we retreated. As we retreated we began giving out food to families
along the streets we were on. One father came out and said,
"On Easter instead of my children finding Easter eggs in
the yard they found bombs." We saw very few Palestinians
anywhere, only an occasional brave soul risking a peak out
of their window or door.
About three blocks from our hotel we
began to encounter Israeli jeeps and tanks riding past us. We
heard through several journalists that the road to our hotel
was completely blocked off by the Israelis. We sat waiting for
about 20 minutes until we saw a convoy of tanks and bulldozers
moving away from the direction of our hotel. We began walking
towards our hotel. Near the Baba Skak intersection I saw Dan
Rather talking to a TV crew.
I wanted to run over tom him and shake
him by his shoulders, pleading him to portray this conflict
accurately. Instead I held up my sign to get the TV crews attention.
The crew came over to me and filmed me and my sign ("4Th
Geneva Convention, Article 3 - The Wounded and The Sick Will
Be Collected and Care For"). I feel I must work diligently
for every bit of TV coverage I can get.
We made it back to the hotel as the never
ending sound of gunfire exploded around us.
Beth Daoud
is one of four Coloradans currently in Palestine as part of
a larger international presence acting as human shields in Palestinians
refugee camps, accompanying ambulances and getting the word
out to the world. More of their experience can be found at
http://www.ccmep.org/palestine.html
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