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Lawless Israeli Oppression in Palestine: Shooting Mustafa Tamimi at Point Blank Range

by Stephen Lendman December 15, 2011

Israeli soldiers, police and even settlers can kill or otherwise harm Palestinians with impunity.Mustafa Tamimi’s death and many others show that Palestinian life is “cheap.”

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Breaching Gaza’s Siege

by Stephen Lendman June 27, 2011

Israel is a rogue terror state. Activists know the risks. They’re coming anyway and will keep coming, no matter what Israel plans.
In America’s Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson endorsed citizen action against destructive government policies. Flotilla participants are acting in the best tradition of his message, challenging Israeli repression for justice.

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Violating Palestinian Rights

by Stephen Lendman June 26, 2011

Over the most recent seven day period, 33 residential buildings were demolished in Jordan Valley Fasayil, al-Hadidiyeh, and Yarza communities, as well as southern Hebron Hills Khirbet Bir al-’Id. As a result, 238 Palestinians, including 129 minors, lost homes.

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“War criminals” leak strikes at heart of Israeli society

by SR Editor November 26, 2010

Instead of asking why some groups or individuals in Israeli society are willing to take great risks to hold that society accountable for its actions, Israel prefers to blame the problem on treacherous, self-hating, anti-Semitic Jews, and to instill fear and hatred as the means for preventing Israelis from examining their consciences.

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Israel Torture Palestinian Children by Electric-Shocking

by Stephen Lendman October 21, 2010

Gush Etzion settlement interrogator attached car battery jump leads to the genitals of a 14-year old boy in order to obtain a confession to stone throwing. Three documented cases of children reporting being given electric shocks by Israeli interrogators occurred in Ari’el Settlement. Each was accused of stone throwing. Electric shocking extracted confessions although the boys maintain their innocence.

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Israeli Police Given Protection for Killing Palestinians

by SR Editor October 8, 2010

Once again Israel’s police officers and border police shoot and kill an Arab in cold blood. This time it was a father to many children who was trying to enter Jerusalem to find work for his livelihood. Again the automatic false claim was made that a Palestinian tried to take a border policeman’s weapon. Will the police force, once again, rally behind this murdering officer? Will he, too, gain the status of a hero that killed another Arab? Israeli rights group Yesh Din reported earlier in the year that only “six percent of investigations yielded indictments against Israeli soldiers who harmed Palestinians.

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Qiresh Family Eviction: 1948 Ethnic Cleansing Continues [must see]

by Antoine Raffoul October 6, 2010

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues to this day. In 1948 it went unobserved by most of the world media. Today, it continues despite of the presence of world media. Add to this the farcical indifference of the world community. If this is acceptable today, then we are bystanders. Tala Qiresh, the little Palestinian girl in the pictures, and her family have been evicted from their home in Old Jerusalem and despite the lawyer’s intervention, the soldiers refuse them entry. Tala and her family sleeps on the street in front their home. The Qiresh family lived in that house since 1940 with 40 other residents in 20 rooms.

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