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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 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
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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 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Economics
Lebanon
Palestine
Videos
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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 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
Terrorism
Videos
War Crimes
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Nahr al-Bared's forgotten Prime Areas

The three-month-long war between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon ended on 2 September 2007. While the Lebanese army has allowed displaced residents to return to some parts of the camp, the fate of other parts of the camp still under the army's [...]

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2009 06 19 Guest Post Lebanon
Middle East
Palestine
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Netanyahu Speaks with Twisted Tongue

By Dr. Elias Akleh*
In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks. The Palestinian senior negotiator, Saeb Erekat, explained "The peace [...]

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2009 06 17 Dr. Elias Akleh Failures
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Israel
Judaism
Palestine
Peace
Racism
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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 Haitham Sabbah Lebanon
Palestine
Videos
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Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?

by Susan Abulhawa*
Following Netanyahu's much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel's tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel's right to exist. Never mind the fact that the PLO and Palestine Authority have obliged this ludicrous call, not once, but four times. And never mind that Israel has [...]

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2009 06 17 Guest Post Featured Articles
History
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
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Obama's Song and Dance in Cairo

By Dr. Elias Akleh
Young athletic Obama reflects active energy whether running up the ladder stairs into his Air Force One plane, or giving speeches, such as the song-and-dance so-called historic speech to the Islamic World in Cairo University last Thursday June 4th.
This was a very well written speech meant to touch the hearts of Muslims [...]

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2009 06 09 Dr. Elias Akleh Israel
Palestine
Politics
Racism
Religion
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Gaza siege also hits disabled people

By Luisa Morgantini*
They worked for years for Israeli companies. For years, they paid their taxes and social insurance contributions in Israel in compliance with Israeli labour and fiscal law. But they also had accidents at work suffering serious and invalidating injuries in Israel's factories, building sites or fields.
Until the period following the Oslo agreements, [...]

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2009 05 28 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Israel
Palestine Comments (0)

Administrative Detention

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The tyrannical nature of administrative detention and its complete violation of human rights are based on confidential materials kept from the detainee and the lawyer. The confidential materials determine the period of detention and its extension thereafter. The administrative detainee is allowed an appeal before a court martial but the confidentiality of the [...]

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2009 05 27 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
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Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

The following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]

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2009 05 17 Haitham Sabbah Featured Articles
Israel
Palestine
Racism
The Wall
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Elias Akleh - Racist Israel vs Durban Conference

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Racist of them All
By Dr. Elias Akleh*
It seems that Durban Anti-Racism Review Conference II that started last Monday April 20th in Geneva has concluded with the worthless ineffective declaration with 143 articles calling for the protection of vulnerable minorities, and urging states to combat impunity for crimes [...]

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2009 04 27 Dr. Elias Akleh Guest Blogger
Iran
Racism
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Stuart Littlewood - Law and justice first, Mr Mitchell. Peace comes later

Stuart Littlewood* argues that, before talking about peace, President Obama's envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, must first get Israel to end its violations of Palestinian human rights, abide by international law and stop its nuclear blackmail of the world.
So they sent you to the Holy Land, Mr Mitchell, for talks. So many before [...]

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2009 04 19 Guest Post Failures
Israel
Palestine
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Israeli army refuses to escort Palestinian school children past settlers

[Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law.]
The Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron issued a press release on Monday accusing Israeli soldiers of not [...]

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2009 03 25 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Failures
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
Zionism Comments (1)

Amira Howeidy - Israel's right not to be criticised

How serious can the international community's commitment to eliminating racism be taken when it succumbs to Israeli pressure to boycott the Durban II conference, asks Amira Howeidy
Fresh from its bloody war on Gaza, Israel is actively pressuring the international community to boycott the Durban Review Conference due to convene in Geneva, Switzerland between 20 and [...]

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2009 03 21 Guest Post Asides
Boycott
EU
Gaza
Israel
Palestine
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