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Your Palestinian Gandhis exist… in graves and prisons

Posted on: January 10, 2010

Alison Weir | Counterpunch

8 January 2010

Dear Bono,

In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that…people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi.”

Your hope has already been fulfilled in the Palestinian territories.

Unfortunately, these Palestinian Gandhis and Kings are being killed and imprisoned.

On the day that your op-ed appeared hoping for such leaders, three were languishing … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2010
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One year after I was beaten

Posted on: August 21, 2009

Mohammed Omer | The Socialist Worker

29 June 2009

JUNE 26, 2008, is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life.

That day, I was detained, interrogated, strip-searched and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour, which culminated in independent American journalist Dahr Jamil and I sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London–an award given to journalists who expose propaganda which often masks egregious human rights abuses.

I want to address the denials from Israel and the inaccurate reporting by a few journalists, in addition to requesting that the state … Continue reading


Updated on August 21, 2009
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Israeli to UN: Palestinian detainees kept in ditches

Posted on: July 8, 2009

Daniel Edelson | YNet News

7 July 2009

A member of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) testified in Geneva on Tuesday before a United Nations investigation team looking into the Israeli offensive in Gaza about half a year ago.

Attorney Majd Bader, an Arab Israeli, told the committee that Palestinians detained by Israel during Operation Cast Lead were held in detention under ‘disgraceful” conditions and were subjected to violent Shin Bet interrogations and constant threats.

Speaking to Ynet, Bader said that during his testimony he spoke of the “acute problems of Gazans who are being held in … Continue reading


Updated on July 8, 2009
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Palestinian, you are on your own!

Posted on: March 26, 2009

Natalie Abou Shakra | Gaza 08

He said, “Your wife is beautiful, I want to sleep with her.” During the interrogation, they would hit us extensively. They prevent us from sleeping, urinating, drinking and eating. During my friend’s interrogation, they brought in his wife. They touched her breasts, her sensitive areas in front of him. They wanted him to admit to their accusations. Imprisonment by the occupation forces is the attempting to murder a resistant spirit… all that we have against their state-of-the-art weaponry .

Gilad Shalit “who turned 22 in captivity, will have been a hostage of Hamas for about … Continue reading


Updated on March 26, 2009
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ei: Torture: Read it in the Israeli Press

Posted on: April 4, 2007

by Miko Peled | Electronic Intifada

Thanks to the Israeli press, people in Israel are informed regularly about their government’s mistreatment of the 4.5 million Palestinians under their rule. Most of the information regarding the occupation of Palestine and the oppression of its people is well documented and accurately reported in the Israeli press. But even the most serious offenses are given a “kosher” stamp, so to speak, once the word “security” is attached to them.

There are ample examples of this, but few are as striking as the one provided in the March 23rd issue of the Israeli daily Yediot … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2009
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