According to the indictment, the soldiers were responsible for transferring 13 Palestinian detainees from the Tulkarm Regional Brigade to an IDF military court in northern Israel in April 2006.
During the journey, the soldiers grabbed the prisoners by their hair, struck their chests and necks and demanded they repeat the number soldiers had previously assigned them [...]

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Here is a new sample of the “peace loving Israeli occupation“.
The following video testimonies produced and published by B’tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) shows a sample of Palestinian daily misery life under the Israeli occupation:
Video testimony - Maysun al-Hayek:
In February 2002, Maysun al-Hayek and her husband were on [...]

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“Netanyahu: Swapping prisoners for Shalit would harm Israel”
(i.e. Not a hell of a lot. But if he gets killed, they will make him a martyr and exploit it for all it’s worth! The dead are always of much greater value to the Israelis than the living.)
Netanyahu also said that he would not serve as [...]

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Oh yeah… Israel kidnaps, not only Palestinian freedom fighters, but civilians. And in case you are “shocked” by the news, you need to know that Israel kidnapped thousands of Palestinians civilians before Palestinians resistance fighters captured Gilad Shalit as PoW.
Anyway, Israeli army invades Bethlehem and kidnaps three civilians
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank [...]

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Azmi Bishara - The Legend Begins

(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
1. Will I hang the flag?
By Gideon Levy (Source: Ha’aretz)
There is a flagholder installed in my garden. The previous residents used it to fly the flag of their favorite soccer team. Since they left, the holder has remained orphaned. During my childhood, there was no question about [...]

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[Image by Carlos Latuff]

By Uri Avnery’s - Gush Shalom
14/04/07
AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing.
The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”.
The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like goods, for which the officials [...]

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By: Philippe Khan
Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians’ suffering at the hands of [...]

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It’s been five years since the first detainee arrived at the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison on 11th January.
Here is a video put together by the public defenders office in Oregon, released on youtube, about their Sudanese client Adel Hamad, a hospital charity worker and ping pong player who sits in Guantanamo bay since 2002.
The lawyers [...]

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The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.”
Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, her [...]

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Some of these children are as young as 4 years old, they take a number of buses, sometimes traveling up to 20 hours, with checkpoints, searches, etc. for a 45 minute visit with dad. [Hat tip: Editerette]

Israel does not allow most wives or other relatives this privilege for the over 9,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails… [...]

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Did you know that there are few journalists in Washington who can throw the White House off its stride? Bob Woodward is one of them. Woodward’s new book, “State of Denial,” paints a damning picture of White House policy in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion. The White House is now in full damage-control mode [...]

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If Americans Knew ( http://ifamericansknew.org ) has produced a video on Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners captured by Israel that provides a powerful context to the current crises.
This short video provides important contextual information about prisoners captured and held by Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese. It includes descriptions of the treatment prisoners receive in Israeli prisons.

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The Palestinian sisters, mothers, wives and daughters of Palestinian prisoners are all saying:

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What can go worse than what we went through? NOTHING!
They want to shoot us? They already did…
They will occupy the land? It is already occupied…
They will cut our food and water supply? We [...]

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As the UN demands closure of KBR-built Guantanamo facilities, the Halliburton subsidiary was awarded a $385 million, five-year contract from DHS’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build detention facilities within the US. The facilities would house an emergency influx of immigrants, or “support the rapid development of new programs.”
Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New [...]

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confidentiality policy gives detaining powers legitimacy in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay’s Camp X-Ray, and many Israeli detention centers. The policy, in effect, allows ICRC to politely ask torturers to stop torturing, while promising not to tell the rest of the world. While ICRC is maintaining “good working [...]

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Is it ever right for Americans to inflict cruel and degrading treatment on suspected terrorist detainees?
From Joseph Farah’s - Christian wimps:
“We read credible reports - some from FBI agents - that prisoners have been stripped naked, sexually humiliated, chained to the floor and left to defecate on themselves,” he writes. “These and other practices like [...]

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CFL ALERT: OPPOSE THE TORTURE OF DETAINEES IN IRAQ: ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT THE MCCAIN AMENDMENT.

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A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the [...]

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