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Mohammed Omer, Gaza photojournalist roughed up by Shin Bet
If you’re an award-winning Gaza journalist, the Shin Bet has a message for you: get out and don’t come back.  Inter-Press Service photographer Mohammed Omer just won the distinguished Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London.  He traveled to Jordan on his way home and stopped to [...]

Lawrence of Cyberia broke my heart tonight. But as anyone who has followed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can tell you, your heart breaks far too often when you come to care for the fate of these two troubled peoples. There are all too many opportunities to get your heart broken.
Tonight, Diane wrote about a [...]