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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
Human Rights
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
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The necessity of cultural boycott

By Ilan Pappe *
If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. [...]

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2009 06 24 Guest Post Boycott
Palestine
Racism
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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 Haitham Sabbah 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 Haitham Sabbah Boycott
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
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Loyalty to racism

Israel's attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification.
by Azmi Bishara
What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer specifically to those intended to curb manifestations of Palestinian patriotism and to restrict the political activity of Arab Israelis.
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2009 06 23 Guest Post Palestine
Racism
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The language that absolves Israel

A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what's going on in the Middle East.
By Saree Makdisi
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the [...]

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2009 06 23 Guest Post Palestine
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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 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
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Gaza Bonanza

[Sabbah's Blog note: For simplicity, read COGAT = OCCUPATION ADMINISTRATORS. For your info, these are administrators in military uniform.]
By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
Every week, about 10 officers from the Israel Defense Force's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit convene in the white Templer building in the Kirya, the Defense [...]

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2009 06 21 Guest Post Gaza
Palestine
War Crimes
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Ensemble Ambitions in a World Divided

By DANIEL J. WAKIN
WISPS of mournful tunes from a cane flute mingled with the plucking, jangling arabesques of the zitherlike qanun, the oud and gentle drums. The sounds arose from a quartet of Arab musicians who call themselves the Oriental Music Ensemble as they shared a precious moment of togetherness in the Miller Theater at [...]

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2009 06 21 Guest Post Culture
Music
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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 Human Rights
Palestine
Terrorism
Videos
War Crimes
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Photo of the day

[Source: Anon]

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2009 06 19 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Palestine
Photos
Terrorism
War Crimes
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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
Featured Articles
Human Rights
Judaism
Palestine
Peace
Racism
War Crimes
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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
Human Rights
Palestine
War Crimes
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To make an Israeli omelet is it necessary to break so many eggs?

By ROGER PULVERS
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. . . . Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high, solid wall. The eggs are the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by [...]

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2009 06 15 Guest Post Culture
Gaza
Palestine
The Wall
War Crimes
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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 Haitham Sabbah Palestine
Peace
Politics
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