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...Jamil Roubayee, a 32-year-old doctor, glances around the emergency room and tugs nervously at the stethoscope in the pocket of his white coat. On one side of the ward lie four elderly men who were rushed to Baghdad's biggest hospital, the 12-story, powder blue Saddam Hussein Medical Center, after suffering heart attacks. On the other side are two ailing women as well as a little boy afflicted with sickle-cell anemia. Because of the international blockade against Iraq, Roubayee says, the hospital lacks antibiotics and other medicines necessary to treat the patients. At least...
...portray a people? For this week's cover story, senior writer Lance Morrow and Jerusalem bureau reporter Jamil Hamad avoided the politicians who regularly define the Palestinian cause. "Rhetoric in the Middle East has an elaborate life of its own," explains Morrow. "It tends to obscure the truth." Instead of gathering familiar slogans, the two constructed their group portrait from the personal tales of a wide array of ordinary Palestinians. Says Hamad: "We decided to let readers judge for themselves the fears and dreams that filled our notebooks...
...into an interview with a family in the West Bank before he realized that he was related by marriage to one of its members. While he was interviewing students in Jordan, a teacher overheard that he lived in Bethlehem, the man's hometown. "And what is the news of Jamil Hamad?" asked the teacher. Hamad laughed and replied, "I am Jamil Hamad." The two had not seen each other in 20 years...
...politicians -- especially Middle Eastern politicians -- are wont to do, Shamir was fudging the facts. Jamil Tarifi, a West Bank lawyer associated with the P.L.O., confirmed the talks and implied that he would report on the meeting to P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat. By meeting with Tarifi, insisted Labor Party official Yossi Beilin, Shamir made the P.L.O. leader implicitly part of the bargaining process. Said Beilin: "That there is negotiation with the P.L.O. is quite clear...
...says Reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, a military-affairs expert, who serves in the Israeli army. "Very often I experience a strong conflict between my inner feelings as an Israeli and the professional need to see things as they are." The other side of that conflict is acute for Reporter Jamil Hamad. "It is difficult to report what goes on in the West Bank when you are a Palestinian," says Hamad. "On the one hand, you try to be impartial. To me, on the other hand, the tears of mothers and fathers are not just a scene to report...