Word: jenine
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...explain: I hated being in Jenin. I was numb with the sadness of turning away dozens of workers every day who wanted to sneak across the closed border only to bring home some food. But my soldiers and I also stopped three terrorists from shooting civilians to death in Afula. I know I saved lives without ever pulling a trigger. It is hard to imagine, but sometimes the Palestinians we refused entry into Israel would stay around for a while, and we would share our dinner with them, and we’d talk about a future where they?...
...continual military occupation” against which the now-infamous divestment petition rails (it would be five months before professors would polarize the campus by calling on Harvard to target the Israeli economy for destruction). We were twenty soldiers in five jeeps spread out north of Jenin when Patrol One caught sight of the terrorist cell—three figures with AK-47s had just crossed the road and were running towards the Israeli city of Afula, ten minutes further north. One and Two were on it too fast for us to get over to help them; they followed...
Israeli forces should not be in Jenin. If you doubt this, ask Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson and Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama, who call for divestment. Ask the Israeli people, ask the eight soldiers trapped under fire in two tin boxes who called for help and for their lives on the radio for three hours. The 74 Harvard professors who call for an end to the Israeli presence in Palestinian cities will find they are in no disagreement with the vast majority of Israelis. They will, if they consult recent history, discover that Israel?...
Perhaps what is most frustrating of all is this: on a Monday afternoon, with 14 more dead because of the anger and terror coming from Jenin, we need no petition’s urging to end occupation. Threatening to choke off Israel’s industries is only an insult to be piled atop our dead. We need a partner for peace, not threats of destruction...
...discerned the very muzzle flashes in the windows. The tank fired three shells, the helicopter one missile, and it was over. Three Palestinians and one Israeli were injured, and a three-story building was damaged. An hour later we reopened the border road, and Simon, Ami, and I left Jenin to resume our patrol. I whispered a prayer...