Word: nablus
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...manners are not yet a national accomplishment. Israelis' driving is not civilized, although it is not as bad as that in either Boston or Brussels. These days it seems difficult to find Israelis laughing. The soldiers do not smile when they are on duty, on patrol in Hebron or Nablus or Bethlehem. Why should they? Smile at them in greeting, and they stare back with hostile incredulity, as if looking at a lunatic. A rueful joke is told by Yaakov Agmon, the Israeli theatrical director who is in charge of the 40th-anniversary celebrations that will be held all over...
...would not find one Arab, not one, to sing the national anthem of Israel!'' But the Jews have granted the Arabs no voice. It is grotesque to invite the mute to sing. In Kafr Qaddum, an Arab village in the hills of the West Bank not far from Nablus, the people have strewn boulders across the road to stop intrusions. They are frightened. The sun is bright, vivid. A red-green-white-and-black Palestinian flag on a makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking...
...troubling problems closer to home. Palestinian students staged a demonstration at Bir Zeit University, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Restive Israeli troops fired on them, killing two youths and wounding twelve. The next day Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian near the city of Nablus after he threw stones at them. Once again, tension in the West Bank was running high...
...Americans traveling in the Palestinian territories are no longer safe. The consulate in mid-August issued kidnap warnings for Gaza and the West Bank after the abduction of two Fox News reporters. On Wednesday, kidnappers struck again: an American aid worker, Michael Philips, 24, from Louisiana was kidnapped from Nablus by a new gang calling itself Jaish al-Sunna (the "Sunni Army") which demanded the release of Palestinian women and minors from Israeli prisons. Palestinian security police freed Phillips, but the identity of his captors is still unknown. According to both Israeli and Palestinian police sources, there is no evidence...
...newspaper written in “easy” Hebrew and asks us to translate the headlines. “Life in the North Is Paralyzed.” “Hezbollah Still Has Thousands of Missiles.” “Soldier Killed in Nablus.” We have studied the vocabulary, but it is not at all easy to read these sentences. Nevertheless, the words we encounter in the newspaper and the expressions and slang that have come out of the Israeli army over the years are essential components of the language...