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Iraqi
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Articles
for December 1, 2002
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Miriam
as
Human
Shield
By
Jonathan
Cook,
Palestine
Chronicle,
December
1,
2002
"Here,
exposed,
is
the
hiding
place
of
28-year-
old
Iyad
Sawalha,
leader
of
Al-Quds
Brigades,
the
military
wing
of
Islamic
Jihad
.."
-
Discarded
in
a
narrow
alleyway
behind
a
row
of
shoe
shops
in
Jenin's
old
town
are
a
pile
of
metal
doors,
each
with
a
hole
twice
the
size
of
a
human
fist
where
once
the
lock
was
to
be
found.
New
doors,
courtesy
of
the
council
and
freshly
painted
white,
now
guard
the
entrance
to
each
home
and
lead
like
footsteps
up
the
alley
to
a
cul
de
sac
where
a
small,
two-storey
house
still
has
no
front
door
to
protect
its
privacy.
In
fact
it
has
no
privacy
left
to
protect.
All
its
doors
are
either
missing
or
hanging
off
their
hinges.
On
the
top
floor
the
walls
are
crumbling,
part
of
the
roof
is
missing,
debris
of
rocks,
concrete
and
earth
lie
on
every
surface
and
there
is
a
rubble-filled
hole
in
the
floor
with
a
large
metal
spike
sticking
up
from
its
centre.
The
scene
downstairs
is
worse.
A
small
passageway
filled
with
yet
more
rubble
leads
to
gaping
hole
in
a
wall.
Beyond
it,
through
the
gloom,
a
deep
cave
is
visible,
black
from
the
explosions
that
tore
through
it
and
pockmarked
with
holes
made
by
hundreds
of
rounds
of
live
fire.
To
the
left
of
the
passage
is
a
doorway
to
a
room,
barely
recognisable
now
as
a
kitchen
apart
from
a
battered
metal
kettle
amid
the
wreckage
on
the
ground.
Once
the
room
and
the
cave
were
separated
by
a
wall
but
that
too
is
now
missing.
More
International
Protection
for
Palestinian
Refugees?
BADIL
Resource
Center,
November
24,
2002
A
Critical
Analysis
of
the
Revised
UNHCR
Interpretation
of
the
Status
of
Palestinian
Refugees
under
International
Refugee
Law
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Since
1948
Palestinian
refugees
have
called
for
international
protection
to
enable
them
to
exercise
their
right
of
return
to
homes
and
lands
illegally
expropriated
by
Israel.
From
places
of
exile
in
the
Middle
East,
Europe
and
elsewhere
they
have
called
for
protection
of
their
right
to
freedom
of
movement,
family
unity,
access
to
education,
work
and
adequate
housing.
Too
often,
Palestinian
refugees
have
raised
desperate
calls
to
the
international
community
for
protection
from
renewed
forced
displacement,
collective
punishment,
arbitrary
destruction
of
their
properties,
and
war
crimes.
The
1982
massacre
at
Sabra
and
Shatila
(Beirut);
Israeli
human
rights
violations
during
the
first
Palestinian
intifada
in
the
occupied
West
Bank,
eastern
Jerusalem,
and
Gaza
Strip
(1987-1991);
and
mass
expulsion
from
Kuwait
and
Libya
in
the
early
1990s
–
all
gave
raise
to
new
UN
resolutions
and
initiatives
aimed
at
upgrading
international
protection
for
Palestinian
refugees.
These
efforts,
however,
have
not
brought
about
substantial
improvements.
Confronted
with
massive
Israeli
military
assaults
against
the
civilian
camp
population
in
the
current
(second)
intifada,
Palestinian
refugees
from
all
areas
of
exile
continue
to
call
for
international
protection.
Don't
blame
religion
for
the
killings
done
in
God's
name
By
Martin
Woollacott,
The
Guardian,
November
29,
2002
Political
failure
often
paves
the
way
for
resurgent
fundamentalism
-
It
has
always
been
true
that
many
things
done
in
the
name
of
God
would
be
abhorrent
to
a
benign
deity.
But,
with
terrorists
attacking
Israelis
in
Kenya,
Muslims
and
Christians
killing
each
other
in
Nigeria,
a
mission
nurse
murdered
in
Lebanon
and
Hindu
worshippers
and
Muslim
assailants
shot
down
in
Kashmir,
this
seems
like
an
especially
bad
period
for
the
abuse
of
religion.
Religion
continues
to
be
a
vehicle
for
political
expression
and
change,
whether
peaceful
or
violent,
in
a
way
surprising
to
those
who
once
expected
a
progressive
secularisation
to
ultimately
reach
every
part
of
the
globe.
What
is
really
going
on
during
religious
revivals
or
in
the
growth
of
political
movements
based
on
religion,
or
of
terrorist
groups
claiming
religious
justification,
are
vexed
issues,
but
between,
say,
the
Iranian
revolution
and
the
emergence
of
al-Qaida,
there
have
been
some
clues.
Those
are
both
dates
of
developments
within
the
Islamic
world,
but
this
is
a
period
which
also
encompasses
the
growth
of
the
Christian
right
in
the
US,
an
increase
in
religious
influence
in
Israel,
a
war
in
the
Balkans
in
which
religiously
derived
identities
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