My e-mail in-box was busy this last week, with reports and updates
from the violence reduction presence of the red-capped Christian
Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Hebron, all relating to recent death threats
against three of their members.
I've read CPT reports for some time now, and both these and the CPT
archives represent an oasis of information coming out of a desert of
silence. In Hebron we had endured both the "we work with the
authorities and cannot comment" silence of the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the "Our reports are passed on to
committees [somewhere]" silence of the mostly Norweigen Temporary
International Presence in Hebron (TIPH). TIPH unfortunately means
"spit" in Arabic, and silence - which is what ultimately results from
no-publish human rights mandates - is what keeps the violators happy
and makes you want to make the same sound as the name.
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