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The group said the deaths included a 12-year-old boy, Rateb al-Orabi, killed when security forces fired on protesters in the Shammas neighborhood in Homs, and a 13-year old boy in al-Kasweh.
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The group said the deaths included a 12-year-old boy, Rateb al-Orabi, killed when security forces fired on protesters in the Shammas neighborhood in Homs, and a 13-year old boy in al-Kasweh.
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Note 23: C. Shammas, "Anglo-American Household Government in Comparative Perspective," William and Mary Quarterly, 3/52 (Jan. 1995): 104 – 144; esp.p. 105 back
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Shammas said the system can be used to relocate independent judges who refuse to allow anyone to influence their cases.
Judges Play Musical Chairs IWPR 2008
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The justice ministry has carried out such transfers for the last 30 years, the official justification being a need to distribute work fairly, Shammas said.
Judges Play Musical Chairs IWPR 2008
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To light the Hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah) one first lights the Shammas (the higher one) and then uses that candle to light the others.
Sixth Night of Hanukkah 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Anton Shammas and David Grossman have both written lucidly, from Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli perspectives respectively, about this balkanization of a society that was fissile enough to begin with.
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Anton Shammas and David Grossman have both written lucidly, from Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli perspectives respectively, about this balkanization of a society that was fissile enough to begin with.
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What Shammas neglects to tell his readers is that the preamble in which this formula appears is followed directly by an elaborate and detailed Bill of Rights that prohibits prejudicial treatment and guarantees equality to all citizens of Israel regardless of religion, nationality, race, etc.
Jews & Arabs Susser, Bernard 1988
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One case in point is Shammas 'complaint against the proposed constitution for Israel drafted by a group of Tel Aviv University professors (in which group I participated).
Jews & Arabs Susser, Bernard 1988
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