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an uprooted Palestinian blogger. Founder and Webmaster of Palestine Blogs and Palestine Think Tank. His personal blog is http://sabbah.biz/

Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children - a report

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force - Palestinian Child Prisoners: The [...]

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2009 06 27 Bleeding Edge
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
Zionism Comments (2)

Video: Two years under siege

Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp's fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps its tight grip on the camp. Several checkpoints, barbed wire and military posts cut Nahr Al-Bared off from its surroundings.
Nahr Al-Bared camp used to be a [...]

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2009 06 24 Bleeding Edge
Economics
Human Rights
Lebanon
Palestine
Videos
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Video: Palestinian homes on sale to 'private buyers'

Ever ask what happen to the homes of those that become refugees in 1948?
This 3 minute clip from Al Jazeera English sums up the latest Israeli actions to make sure the "right of return" becomes just as unfeasible as they have made a true 2-state solution.

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2009 06 23 Israel
Palestine
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Bikini-clad activists crash 'Tel Aviv Beach' party at Central Park

On the sands of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism's Tel Aviv Beach in Central Park last Sunday, bikini-clad activists from the women's group CODEPINK covered themselves in mud to expose the truth behind the event: as a tool to clean up Israel's reputation in light of its dirty policies toward Palestine, including West Bank settlements, [...]

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2009 06 23 Boycott
Israel
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
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Video: Lift the closure - give life a chance

To mark two years of the closure Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip, a new online film was released last Thursday by eight human rights organizations in Israel.

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2009 06 22 Gaza
Israel
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
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Video: Israel Torturing Palestinian Civilian

Haaretz - Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year.
In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website an Arab youth is shown in arid terrain, slapping himself, while a voice is heard instructing him to say "I love you, Border Police," and [...]

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2009 06 20 Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Terrorism
Videos
War Crimes
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Photo of the day

[Source: Anon]

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2009 06 19 Gaza
Israel
Palestine
Photos
Terrorism
War Crimes
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Video: Nahr al-Bared Camp - A Sip of Coffee

In may 2007, the battle between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by september 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the "old camp", the core of Nahr [...]

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2009 06 17 Human Rights
Lebanon
Palestine
Videos
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Netanyahu Speech: Palestinian Reaction

Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and member of the Israeli Knesset representing the United Arab List-Ta'al party, which was nearly barred from running in Israel's last election: Netanyahu's speech is a deceptive attempt to bypass Obama's call for a complete settlement freeze. He said nothing new, but instead reiterated the racist demand that [...]

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2009 06 15 Israel
Palestine
Peace
Politics
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Reflect and resist

From theatre in a Bethlehem refugee camp to the Venice biennale, Palestinians are making art out of adversity - and doing it with grace, finds Ahdaf Soueif, organiser of the Palestine festival of literature
Leaning against padded walls in a darkened room we eavesdrop on an argument: "the elite think they can get independence without resistance [...]

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2009 06 14 Art
Culture
Education
Israel
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Garry Trudeau comic is 'anti-Semitic' bemoans ADL, 'How To Cook A Gentile' is OK

As widely reported, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) has sent a letter to cartoonist Garry Trudeau about his Doonesbury cartoon that ran May 31. They then released the content of that letter to media sources.
The ADL is demanding Garry Trudeau to apologize because he "maligned Judaism" and is guilty of promoting "anti-Jewish stereotypes and biblical [...]

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2009 06 12 Cartoon
Censorship
Christianity
Israel
Judaism
Religion
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Military Justice in Israel

Adapted from the Amnesty International Report: http://bit.ly/13b6o4
Hundreds of Palestinians, including scores of children, were detained by Israeli forces in the OPT and many were held incommunicado for prolonged periods. Most were later released without charge, but hundreds were charged with security-related offences and tried before military courts, whose procedures often failed to meet international [...]

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2009 06 12 Gaza
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
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Gaza: Collaborate or Die

No Right to Life:
With the lack of medical services in Gaza, critically ill patients must travel into Israel for treatment. Many are asked to collaborate with Israeli intelligence services before they receive aid. It has been alleged that if they refuse to become informers they are refused medical treatment. Inigo Gilmore reports

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2009 06 12 Gaza
Israel
Palestine
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Video: Iraqi Poet Abbas Jejan welcomes Obama (Arabic Only)

The famous Iraqi poet, Abbas Jejan, welcomes Obama in his visit to the Middle East with his own style.
A must see video - a laugh for the day!

2009 06 09 Culture
Iraq
USA
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Israel rank bottom in Global Peace Index

In a recently published report, Global Peace Index placed Israel only three steps from the less peaceful countries in the world.
In its third year study, an Australian nonprofit organization ranked 144 countries for how peaceful they are.
On top of the list, New Zealand followed by Denmark and Norway were ranked as the most peaceful countries [...]

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2009 06 08 Israel
Peace
Politics
Racism
War Crimes
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