Southwest Times Record · Fort Smith, Arkansas · 5 November 1998
CP-1998-020
Sticks and stones
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Transcribed from the clipping
“School children everywhere chant a version of this playground doggerel: ‘Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ But in Israel the words can kill, too.”
Context added by this archive
Three years after Rabin's assassination, a column about political language and what it licenses — in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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"Sticks and stones," Southwest Times Record, 5 November 1998. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1998-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1998-020
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