Word: grosse
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...topple Schröder three years ago, says Merkel's first few weeks have been "characterized by a series of blunders." Merkel has inflicted some of the damage herself - through lackluster performances in interviews and by her confusion, on two separate occasions, of the accounting concepts of "net" and "gross." But some of the most serious gaffes have been made by her party colleagues, offending voters in the east whose support for the Linksbündnis could prove decisive. Earlier this month Stoiber caused an uproar when he complained about the influence of east German voters. Merkel, an easterner herself...
...Still Defiant Haim Gross...
...Although Haim Gross and his family were evacuated, with the rest of Morag's residents on Wednesday noon, he was back in the settlement less than 24 hours later. "I came back with some friends to oversee the houses' demolition work", he explains. Israeli security forces let some of Morag's former residents enter the village again for a few hours so they could inspect the destruction works done by the Israeli contractors...
...Gross finds the evacuation too hard to talk about, but he has nothing good to say about the way Israeli authorities treated his family: "We were thrown to the dogs." The family was sent to the southern city of Beer Sheva, where, he says, "They wanted to put us in a hotel which was encircled by barbed wires." Help came from a family from Ofra, a West Bank settlement, that invited the Gross's to stay with them for the time being. "They are good people," Gross says. "Unlike the Israeli state, they treat us like human beings". When night...
...Haim Gross says he does not intend to quit even Gaza quietly. If the soldiers try to remove his family by force, he says, "we'll lock the house, chain ourselves together and pray." He believes such images of resistance, pitting Jew against Jew, will spur the nation to reject any more withdrawals from occupied land. But when the knock on the door comes at the Hilburg house, the moment Bryna calls "a calamity," her family "will be here at the table, drinking coffee. And when the soldiers arrive, we'll offer them a cup." Sammy breaks in. "And then...