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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
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
Zionism Comments (2)

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
Israel
Music
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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
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Racism
The Wall
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West Bank Barrier and Closure

There is only one place on earth where you can find all the types of barriers and closure systems, forcibly imposed by the Israeli occupation forces. This place is the Occupied West Bank, Palestine.

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2009 03 14 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
Photos
The Wall
War Crimes
West Bank Comments (1)

Israel's Back Yard

Check these testimonies from checkpoints of the West Bank.

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2009 03 13 Haitham Sabbah Asides
Israel
Palestine Comments (0)

60 Minutes: Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?

A must see segment on the Occupation of Palestine by CBS News - 60 Minutes.
…For peace to have a chance, Israel would have to withdraw from the West Bank, which would then become the Palestinian state.
It’s known as the "two-state" solution. But, while negotiations have been going on for 15 years, hundreds of thousands of [...]

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2009 01 27 Haitham Sabbah Israel
One State
Palestine
Videos
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Palestinian girl confronting Israeli terrorist

A Korean television broadcast this amazing video of a Palestinian girl confronting some terrorist of the Jewish State.
Huwaida Arraf, a Detroiter married to Adam Shapiro, a University of Michigan Poli Sci graduate, and a founder of International Solidarity Movement, a non-violent activist organization confronting Israeli terrorists. They are trying to fire at demonstrating Palestinian [...]

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2009 01 07 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
West Bank
Zionism Comments (7)

IOF set to demolish clinic, 11 homes at Hebron, West Bank

By Jessica Frederick
HEBRON - Palestinian residents of the Beqa'a Valley are in danger of losing eleven homes and their health clinic. The clinic is currently under construction. The Israeli Civil Administration issued orders to the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) to demolish the homes and clinic by 14 February.
Residents in the valley have been [...]

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2008 02 11 Haitham Sabbah Action
Bleeding Edge
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes Comments (2)

Not seen on CNN: Israeli Soldiers "Mooning" Palestinian Shepherds

Warning - PG: Recommended for mature audiences only.
Israeli Soldiers Bare All In South Hebron Hills:
Soldiers Expose themselves to Palestinian Shepherds as Part of Ongoing Harassment

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Friday, January 12 2008, soldiers from the Israeli Army displayed their buttocks in an exhibition known colloquially as "mooning" [...]

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2008 01 31 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
Videos
West Bank Comments (7)

Ordinary Palestinians pay the price of Israeli sanctions

First from Gaza. It's the ordinary Palestinians that are being harmed by Israel's decision to cut back fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip:

Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world since Hamas seized control of the strip in June. Its economy has been crippled by Israeli sanctions and checkpoints. Israel insists the restrictions [...]

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2007 12 18 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Israel
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
West Bank Comments (2)

Rightist manifesto: Settler evacuation is 'crime against humanity'

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Rightist manifesto: Settler evacuation is 'crime against humanity'
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent

By: Carlos Latuff

About 150 right-wing activists, including academics and Israel Defense Forces reserves officers, have signed a manifesto to be published Friday calling on security forces to refuse evacuating West Bank settlers on the grounds that it [...]

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2007 11 24 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
War Crimes Comments (3)

Extensive houses demolition and humiliation of Palestinians

Via: B'TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Qalqiliya, 29 August 2007: Extensive destruction of houses and gross humiliation of residents
Around four o'clock in the morning of 29 August 2007, a large contingent of soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, entered the Naqar neighborhood of Qalqiliya. According to the media, the soldiers [...]

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2007 09 14 Haitham Sabbah Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Videos
War Crimes
West Bank Comments (1)

Israel tanks moves from Gaza to W. Bank and battles Fatah

But the Israelis really, really, and I mean really want peace. Honest, they do… but it would be so much pleasant to have peace if they had ALL the land, the Palestinians were either dead, in prison, or moved over to Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, even Iran…. as Israel's infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman's political [...]

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2007 06 28 Haitham Sabbah Israel
Palestine
War
War Crimes
West Bank
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My visit to Jenin, April 2002

This blog needs an urgent resuscitation … a sentence which is an oxymoron in itself as every resuscitation is urgent.
I am tired of posting articles exclusively, interesting and up to date as they may be - I need something more alive. I like interaction with people, feedback - I hate having monologues. Talking to a [...]

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2007 06 25 Karin Guest Blogger
Palestine
West Bank Comments (3)

Video: The Color of Olives

From Mexican director Carolina Rivas and cinematographer Daoud Sarhandi comes this elegant and visually breathtaking new film about the Palestinian experience.
The Amer family lives surrounded by the infamous West Bank Segregation Wall, where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locked gates and a constant swarm of armed Israeli soldiers.
This unique and intimate documentary [...]

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2007 05 04 Haitham Sabbah Human Rights
Palestine
Videos
West Bank Comments (0)