Amira Hass is Islaeli woman journalist of Haarets news paper.

She learned Arabic and breathe same air of occupation against Palestinian and tells what is occupation.

Her parents are surviver of holocoast.When her mother went to accomodation,the side of this,German women passed laghing.

She determined "I never unconcern about event in front of me."

"As Islaelite,I must not neglect assailant against others."

"As journalist,I must not neglect events infront of me."

About Palestine,"physical violence" are often reported in small part of news paper as daily event,but for 37 years,there have been "Structure violence".

Her books explain what is "Structure viollence" very well.

Her site is here.

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Special%20Section/Demolition/We_dont_raze_homes_for_no_reason.htm

Her books are here. 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dstripbooks%2526field-keywords%3Dhass%2520amira%2526results-process%3Ddefault%2526dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Fov%5Ftops-1%5Fstripbooks%5F9562307%5F1/104-0354414-1944720

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I have long been a fan of amira hass she speaks the truth.

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Amira Hass..good example for othe r people!! thnak you Emiko!! ..for post about her...and...i hope you have having many experences there  and soon you can tell to us about it!!!!!

Peace

Paola

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http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16147

By Amira Hass

Haaretz
5 September 2006

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758676.html
When a Civil Administration officer at the Beit El military base
extended the tourist visa of Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American
businessman from Ramallah, and wrote on it `last permit,` he did not
do so on his own initiative. When the officer issued what amounts to
a deportation order against Bahour from the city in which his family
has lived for many generations, and in which he has lived for 14
years with his wife and two daughters, he was only the messenger.

When a border official at the Allenby Bridge two weeks ago denied
entry to a Palestinian-Jordanian woman arriving with her husband, a
young doctor from Ramallah, he was following orders. So were the
border officials who did not allow the Spanish wife of R.I. from
Ramallah to return with their two-year-old daughter, and those who
prevented S.A., a Ramallah-born Palestinian with Swedish
citizenship, from returning to his wife, children and livelihood in
Bir Zeit. The official who twice denied entry to P.Z., a
Palestinian-American who has invested $300 million in the
territories and is a senior director of a Palestinian investment
company, was also obeying new rules dictated by the Israeli Interior
Ministry.

When Interior Ministry spokespersons claim repeatedly that these are
not new rules of entry, but rather a `freshening up` about existing
procedures, they are not playing dumb on their own initiative.
Neither is the senior Civil Administration official who explained to
Zahi Khouri - one of the most prominent Palestinian-American
businessmen, who has so far been spared the `last permit` stamp -
that this was a matter of `an administrative misunderstanding.` This
well-laundered phrase was not invented by that official, who meant
that if until now, Khouri and others in his situation have received
tourist visas every three months, that was only a
`misunderstanding.`

An `administrative misunderstanding?` This practice has enabled
thousands of Palestinians and their spouses to live in the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip in a kind of twilight zone: not receiving
residency rights from Israel, but coming and going as tourists so
that they can live as Palestinians in their homeland, with their
families, over the course of many years - 10, 15, and even 30. And
all of a sudden someone energetic in the Interior Ministry
discovered the misunderstanding and tells these people to leave?

In 2000, similarly `freshened up` rules were issued regarding
Palestinians whose spouses were citizens of Arab, that is,
non-Western countries. They were not permitted to return to their
homes. Between 1994 and 2000, during the Oslo years, instructions
were given that slowed the process of `family unification,` for
which tens of thousands of families in the occupied territories are
waiting, to a minimum. These families are not living in Haifa or
Ashkelon, but in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And despite this,
in 2000, even this minimal process of family unification, which only
Israel has the authority to approve, was frozen. Consequently,
thousands of families were condemned to a cruel separation - between
fathers and children, wives and husbands, grandparents and
grandchildren.

In 1996, these same decision-makers - the Labor government and the
Likud-Shas government - issued a similar order: to revoke the
Jerusalem residency rights of Palestinians born in Jerusalem who
were studying or working abroad, or who had built houses in
neighborhoods close to Jerusalem because longstanding discriminatory
policies prevented them from building in East Jerusalem. In that
same spirit of demographic manipulation, Israel forbids Palestinians
to move from Gaza to the West Bank, and Gaza residents living in the
West Bank are considered `illegal aliens` and are deported to Gaza.

Behind the officials and the spokespeople, whose names are known,
behind the `procedures` that they quote, hide the people who give
the orders. Who are they? Prime ministers (from the Likud,
Labor-Shas and Kadima) or `just` their interior ministers? Perhaps
they are ministry directors general who know which way the wind is
blowing, along with the legal advisors who back them up. This is not
known. After all, they do not publish these decisions with their
signatures on them. In another 50 years, the state archives
containing today`s documents will be opened, and then we will know.

The important thing today is that a direct line connects various
similar decisions made separately, as if unconnected. The
decision-makers are only waiting for the right moment to expand
them, to make them harsher, to include more categories of deportees.
And all this is happening without any opposition - neither from
Israeli individuals and political organizations that speak loftily
of peace, nor from Western countries that know only how to make
demands of Palestinian governments, but claim that they cannot
intervene when it comes to Israel`s sovereign decisions. The
sovereign decisions of an occupying state.

If the anonymous decision-makers do not come up against courageous
opposition, they will continue to invent new rules that will drag us
further and further down the slope of expulsion.


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