-Caveat Lector- Ilene R. Prusher, Christian Science Monitor - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0919/p01s02-wome.html
Najjah Dweikat is giving a physics lesson, explaining different ways a body can move from one point to another. It's an ironic topic for the Palestinian students here, whose own movements have been severely restricted by an Israeli curfew on the West Bank in effect since June 20. The clampdown, part of Israel's response to the Palestinian intifada, has led to a boom in makeshift schools, hastily set up in Palestinian neighborhoods so that teachers and students do not have to travel by car or bus to attend. Anything can become a classroom: an empty wedding hall, a living room, a shaded alleyway. Seating is so scarce that pupils often tote cheap white garden chairs to class. For Palestinians, the schools are an attempt to regain some measure of life as normal and not let their children fall too far behind in their studies. To the Israeli army, which views this city as a place that has churned out more than its share of suicide bombers, the secret schools violate the curfew - but might go overlooked by authorities If they only cause a few youngsters to hurry furtively down local streets. . . Theoretically, school attendance is not allowed, says an Israeli army spokesman. "But of course the army has no problem that a few children are sneaking to a class at someone's house to be taught, which doesn't show any danger to anyone." However, when Palestinians attempted to hold classes at a real school here on Tuesday, at the Askar refugee camp, the Israeli army dispersed them with tear gas and rubber-coated bullets; three Palestinians were injured. "What they did was illegal because there was no permission to open that school on that day," the spokesman says. "When the curfew is imposed, you cannot go out of the house." <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
