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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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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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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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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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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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Photo of the day

[Source: Anon]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Video: New Profile and the Israeli conscientious objector movement

A new report from Al Jazeera English sheds light on the Israeli conscientious objector movement and the crack down on the organization New Profile.

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Gaza Over & Over..

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This 70 pages document try to summarize Israel military aggression into Gaza Strip (December 2008 - February 2009). It contains photos, data, report and artworks related to the war. More then 30 artist involved and more then 40 artworks featured. This is the third project done [...]

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During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza

by Medea Benjamin*
Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University on June 4, intended to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. During the Bush years, many Arabs turned against the United States because of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the abuses at Guantanamo [...]

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