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Breaking
Ranks: Turbulent Travels in the Promised Land by
Benjamin Black
Lonely
Planet, 2001.
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The
devastating sentence 'Suicide Strike Kills 17' spans across
the front page of The Australian on 10 August,
2001. Below the headline, the torn body of a young woman
caught in the blast is pictured on a stretcher carried
by two young men, their faces a portrait of complacency.
They have a job to do and many more casualties lie in
the rubble of destruction in and around the pizzeria.
These images show how death is a way of life in Israel,
with suicide bombs detonated by angry young Palestinian
men all too frequent.
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Three
days later and there is another bombing, this time in
a coffee shop in northern Israel. Like the first, another
news story outlines the number of deaths and injuries,
the location and the intended retaliation that is expected.
The basic who, what, when, and where. The Australian
also seems complacent, slotting this short summary into
a gap under a much larger story about the Brisbane Broncos
fourth consecutive loss. Perhaps we care too much about
football. It is, after all, only a game, not a matter
of life and death.
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Several
hundred people have been killed over the last year as
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to burn over
the slither of land bordered by Jordan and the Mediterranean
Sea. Each day the press unwaveringly feeds us the death
tolls in voices saturated in fact and lacking compassion.
But the numbers mean little without the stories. Who are
these people?
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