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A Decade On, A Boy, A Ball And A West Bank Wall

A decade ago, Israel's separation barrier cut off Ishaq Amer's home from its Palestinian village. Emily Harris/NPR hide caption

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A Decade On, A Boy, A Ball And A West Bank Wall

October 13, 2013 • Ishaq Amer's home was cut off from his Palestinian village when Israel erected a separation barrier around the West Bank. More important to the 13-year-old at the time was that he was cut off from his soccer buddies. An American boy saw a documentary about Ishaq's family and wanted to know what happened to them.

A Decade On, A Boy, A Ball And A West Bank Wall

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Attacks on Israeli Arab Sites: Good Story, Flawed Parts

December 14, 2011 • An NPR report on recent vandalism to Arab sites in Israel unnecessarily confused listeners by lacking context and airing a tendentious interview about the Israeli right that should have been cut. But the story was not an anti-Israel diatribe, as some claim, and was correct in its main premise.

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March 30th Show

March 30, 2011 • In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, the political junkie, and Arab-Israeli conflict. In the second hour, when is a revolution a revolution?, and exiled dictators.

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