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Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), the Palestian single mother who moves with her son from the West Bank to Illinois in the new film Amreeka, is painfully unprepared for the world outside the West Bank. When the customs agent at Chicago airport immigration asks for her occupation, she answers "Yes" with great enthusiasm, referring to the political state she's lived in. She's the sort of person who, if confronted with the anti-immigrant sentiment "Why don't you just go home?" would naively attempt to give an earnest answer, explaining about the limited educational opportunities for her smart teenage...
...Since Hamas won control of the Palestian government in last December's elections, the U.S. and Western Europeans have cut off direct funds to the Palestinian Authority. Many critics have argued that the measures have amounted to a financial stranglehold of the Palestinian territories that is fueling a humanitarian - and political - crisis. But the Western powers insist they have tried to avert a that kind of crisis - and international pressure to compromise with Hamas - by pouring massive amounts aid into the territories via non-governmental organizations. According to U.S. and European officials, the Palestinians received $700 million in external support...
Unless Arafat explicitly recogizes Israel, he can always turn around and say that he never did, when it suits his cause, say, after a Palestian state has been achieved...
...indiscriminate and excessive" force against Paelstianians. Entitled "Israel and the Occupied Territories, Excessive Force: Beatings to Maintain Law and Order," the report details both the systemic nature and broad scale of Israeli violence against Palestinians. Hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces since December, when the Intifada, as the Palestian uprising is called, began, and thousands more have been brutally beaten, abused, incarcerated and humiliated...
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