“The House That Sabri Built”
Sabri Garaib’s house (c) in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ijza is surrounded by the illegal Jewish settlement of Givon Hahadasha, and can only be reached by walking through a metal gate and concrete walkway monitored by Israeli army cameras. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
By James G. Abourezk
In the May 3 edition of the International Herald Tribune (but not its domestic sister publication, The New York Times), Raja Shehadeh wrote a personal observation resulting from his experience as a human rights worker in Palestine. Here are two paragraphs from his article:
It was 1982 [when Shehadeh first met Sabri Garaib]. In the many years since then Sabri repeatedly fought the settlers in order to hold on to his land. He would go to the Military Objection Co...










