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...editors, I have recently read the article published in The Crimson on the ‘Picture Balata’ tour and was moved to respond (“Politicizing the Playground,” oped, Apr. 20). I have just returned from a visit to Gaza and the West Bank where I was carrying out research on behalf of the UK’s Mental Health Foundation. I have been following the press of the Picture Balata tour with great interest as I had the pleasure of meeting one of the tour organisers in Balata refugee camp. My colleague...
...them is even more wrenching. Aired on a TV channel run by the Islamic militants of Hamas, the two-minute re-enactment was based on the life of Reem Riyashi, 22, a Palestinian mother of two who blew herself up in a suicide attack against Israeli soldiers at a Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli internal-security experts who studied the background...
...more protective view of women and at first were reluctant to sacrifice them. But the Riyashi video, broadcast on Hamas' TV station and produced by Hamas (it can be viewed on YouTube), may signal that the group is using Riyashi's martyrdom to advertise for new female volunteers. In Gaza on April 26, four hooded women in military fatigues announced to the press that they were suicide bombers and vowed, "We will turn Gaza into the Israelis' graveyard if they invade...
...disturbing number of women captured and interrogated by Israel recount stories similar to that of Riyashi, of feeling compelled to carry out an attack to restore her family's honor. In one notorious case, Wafa Samir al-Biss, a 22-year-old burn victim from Gaza, went routinely to an Israeli hospital where she received free medical treatment as a humanitarian gesture. Militants convinced her and her family that since she was disfigured she would never get married and that she was better off becoming a martyr. A surveillance camera at Erez checkpoint captured al-Biss's anguish and desperation...
...Arab leaders and called upon leaders from around the world to grant Palestine, “legitimacy, leadership, and business.” “We need to increase the opportunities for Palestinians,” Gillerman said of business development. “They can turn Gaza into the Hong Kong of the Middle East if their leaders choose to do that instead of turning it into a launching pad for terrorism.” Affirming his belief that there is sufficient hope for Palestinians, Gillerman called upon the establishment of visionary Palestinian leaders and the recognition...