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Displaced Palestinians in the first day of Eid, Gaza, July 28, 2014. 83 UNRWA schools turned into shelters, as also many hospitals all over the strip. (Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: Gaza’s half-million internally displaced
Photos by: Basel Yazouri and Anne Paq/Activestills.org Text by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler The most commonly cited statistic from Gaza is the death toll, now rising past 1,814, according to UN figures. Such numbers can be numbing, as absorbing the reality of so many faces and names is impossible. Yet another staggering figure that is difficult…
By Activestills August 6, 2014
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Five ways to read the paper and keep your sanity intact
These days, starting your day with a newspaper can be a depressing experience. Here’s five methods to get through the daily paper. By Omri Marcus Each morning, we wake up to headlines about a new crazy law, another bizarre way to spend our tax money or another macho quote by the Foreign Minister. When the news…
By +972 Magazine December 2, 2011
Image of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show (source: Comedy Central)
Jon Stewart: Holy “Promised Land” is in Canada
Just a few days after making headlines in the US for suggesting during his late-night faux news program that the Palestinians should be given a state already, Jewish-American host/comedian Jon Stewart decided to delve deeper into the debate. The background here is that all of this is happening in conjunction with the UN General Assembly…
By Roee Ruttenberg September 25, 2011
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