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...started on a visit home two weeks ago, when I suggested to my seven-and-a-half-year-old cousin Ari that we interview our grandparents...
...Ari said defiantly. "Let's be real reporters. Let's write a story for tomorrow's newspaper...
...would Ari present himself and his mission? I figured this usually quiet kid would turn around as soon as he realized how hard it was to approach strangers. No such luck...
...West Bank there was less turmoil but no less resolve to defy Israeli authority. At the central square in Am'ari, a refugee camp on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, the shabab gathered, young men ranging in age from 15 to 30. The camp, which houses 5,000 people, is a concrete maze with open sewers running down each alleyway. "No matter what time the army comes, we come out and start confronting them," said Osama Nijim, 23. It has become a way of life, the only way of life in recent weeks, when work has been scarce because...
...nerves in Am'ari, Jabalia and the other camps and towns of the West Bank and Gaza has been going on since 1967, when Israel seized control of the territories after winning the Six-Day War. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Israeli troops waged a ferocious struggle with the P.L.O., whose Kalashnikov-toting fighters killed scores of soldiers and civilians in the occupied territories. The Israelis eventually wiped out the P.L.O. threat in the West Bank and Gaza, helped in large part by King Hussein's successful 1970 campaign to drive the P.L.O. forces out of Jordan...