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Protestors dressed in mock Israeli military fatigues staged a reenactment of a scene at an Israeli checkpoint, pointing fake guns at a Palestinian woman trying to carry her sick child across the border...
...some 16 Palestinians Wednesday in raids across the West Bank and Gaza, as Sharon's administration launched what it called a "counter-guerrilla war" in the Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians were killed the previous day in retaliation for a dramatic guerrilla attack that killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. More than 40 people have died in a spasm of bloodletting since Monday, from which two simple facts emerged: Palestinian militants have honed the sophistication and focus of their armed actions to maximum military and political effect; and the strategies pursued until now by Sharon have patently failed...
...even travel on the same roads as the settlers, and they are confined to tiny Bantustans. When they wish to leave their Bantustan to go to the market, school or work, they are subject to the whims of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) officer in charge of the checkpoint. If he’s having a good day, then maybe they’ll get to cross unmolested. Other times, the officer will deny entry or exit to all Palestinian males under...
Tell me, Ariel, do you know how many civilians died at the checkpoints last year? Fifty-one people, including women and children. These were not terrorists or even activists. These were people who “opened the [car] door too quickly” or who failed to slow down. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz often reports that some of the people who die at checkpoints “are shot unintentionally.” Last year, one of these “unintentional” deaths included a baby who was born at a checkpoint after...
...What happens next in Sulawesi depends in part on the young policeman stationed in Poso who calls himself Rudi. Despite being heavily armed?he carries a holstered pistol as well as an automatic rifle and a bayonet?Rudi is reluctant to stop at a Laskar Jihad checkpoint on the road outside Poso. "Do we have a letter of authorization?" he asks, keeping his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle. Although they muster only an antiquated shotgun and a homemade rifle among them, he hangs back from the villagers manning the makeshift wooden hut from which the black flag...