The New York Times · 29 December 2002
CP-2002-124
In Nablus, Strife Dims Dreams and Daily Life
By James Bennet
Transcribed from the clipping
NABLUS, West Bank, Dec. 27 — For Munir Abu Kishek, a boxer, the intifada has meant the end of his hopes of representing Palestinians in the Olympic Games, and the start of a new career selling vegetables from a cart. For Nablus itself, the uprising has meant the slow death of a commercial center that, Palestinians say, once set the standard for this society.
The Israeli Army, which has reoccupied Nablus since June, says that it is here to stop terrorism, and that its measures here have saved Israeli lives.
How this transcription was made
Date confirmed on the page (internal-evidence). Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “New York Times”. Legibility fair; any passage that could not be read is omitted rather than reconstructed.
Context added by this archive
Staff-written feature datelined Nablus. People of Palestine are called 'Palestinians'. One ordinary person is named in the lede: Munir Abu Kishek, a boxer turned vegetable seller.
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"In Nablus, Strife Dims Dreams and Daily Life," The New York Times, 29 December 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-124. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-124
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