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“I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.” quote by Amira Hass — Download Open image

“I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.”

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I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign…

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According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.

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Hamas cannot stand free media.

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Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

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The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

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As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

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An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does…

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Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U.S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states…

Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't know, England and Kenya or Belgium and Kenya. It's in your backyard. It's much more about willingness, indecision, the inability, or exposure. There is a decision not to be exposed. People can…

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