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...waves of defeated Palestinians fled Israeli territory to find shelter in squalid camps that the years have made permanent. From the ramshackle alleys of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, a camp crammed with 102,000 people, to the 1,800 in tiny Beit Jibrin, nestled inside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, more than 623,000 refugees are stuck in 27 camps across the occupied territories. An additional 612,000 live miserably in 32 camps in three neighboring countries. For generations, they have all been waiting for the right to return--to the homes they lost in Jaffa or Haifa...
...Jenin camp was bound to be a killing zone. Both sides knew as much. Established in 1953 to provide temporary shelter for refugees still homeless after the 1948 war, the camp has 14,000 residents crammed inside a 2 1/2-sq.-mi. maze of attached cinder-block houses on streets barely wide enough for a Toyota, much less a tank. It is home to a fiercely nationalist tradition and some of the Palestinians' most successful terrorists. When the tanks came two weeks ago, Jenin's fighters were surrounded and outgunned but not outfought. In a radio broadcast, Hamas vowed to fight...
...Refugees In 1948 waves of defeated Palestinians fled Israeli territory to find shelter in squalid camps that the years have made permanent. From the ramshackle alleys of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, a camp crammed with 102,000 people, to the 1,800 in tiny Beit Jibrin, nestled inside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, more than 623,000 refugees are stuck in 27 camps across the occupied territories. An additional 612,000 live miserably in 32 camps in three neighboring countries. For generations, they have all been waiting for the right to return--to the homes they lost...
...Hanson describes his haven as “one of the most unspoiled coves south of Bar Harbor.” He says the town is a one-bar, one-inn kind of place with an “independent sense” about it, where the woods shelter abandoned log cabins built by hippies and it’s rare to hear two cars go by in the same night. It’s the perfect setting for enjoying what Hanson calls the pleasures of “stepping back into the 19th century?...
...course, Lebanon's old problems have not been completely exorcised. Just ask Bernard Khoury, the architect who designed B-018. Having spent his teenage years dodging bullets on the Green Line, he constructed the club in the form of an underground shelter. The bizarre interior--a slit in a wall recalls a sniper's nest, and tables are set with memorial photos of yesteryear's entertainers--echoes war and death. "Some people want a postcard version of our history, with no reference to the war," he says. "I don't agree. Amnesia can be dangerous...