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...Line. Only yards from the seam line is the leafy home of Israel's army chief of staff, Lieut. General Shaul Mofaz. Instead of putting the fence right outside Mofaz's home, planners shifted the line 500 yds. That will force Palestinians from neighboring Falamah to cross through a checkpoint in the fence to reach their fields across the street from Mofaz's house...
...classmates in a presentation on the history of conflict in their homelands. "We argued, hassled one another, agreed on some topics and decided we would never agree on others," says Gadi Maayan, 17, who will join Israel's army in six months. "If I am a guard at a checkpoint, and a pregnant Palestinian woman comes up, I would probably bend the rules now to let her pass...
...French and commended them for voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever Palestinian film in competition: Elia Suleiman's monstrously witty Divine Intervention, in which a balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats across an Israeli military checkpoint, and a Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place...
...daily degradation that feeds that anger can be witnessed right outside Shamas' window. Across a patch of dirt stands the A-Ram checkpoint, a set of concrete roadblocks and a guardhouse manned by twitchy Israeli soldiers. It's a place of humiliation and occasional brutality as Palestinians line up their cars to enter East Jerusalem...
Last month Shamas' husband, a Brooklyn native of Lebanese descent, failed to pick up on a soldier's signals as he crossed the checkpoint and suddenly found the red laser dot of the Israeli's rifle sight dancing on his face. He was saved by his American-accented English and the U.S. passport he slowly pulled out of his pocket. "My God, it hit me," Shamas says. "Nobody is safe. Think of the ease with which that soldier could have decided to kill." Every day her daughter Diala, 17, crosses the checkpoint to go to school. "Not every...