Category: In the Media

  • Caterpillar to delay supply of D9 bulldozers to IDF

    25 October, 2010 | The Jerusalem Post Caterpillar, the company which supplies the IDF with bulldozers, has announced that it is delaying the supply of D9 bulldozers during the time that the trial of Rachel Corrie proceeds, Channel 2 reported on Monday. The company does not usually manufacture a military version of the D9 but…

  • Justice, Israeli style

    22 October 2010 | MWC News By Sherine Tadros “Does anyone know the Hebrew word for ‘occupation’?” A question from the state assigned Hebrew translator to the packed out courtroom. And that kicked off the trial into the killing of US activist Rachel Corrie, which took her family seven years to secure. Today, several months…

  • IDF prosecutors chided for using testimony of mentally disabled Palestinian witness

    25 October 2010 | Amira Hass, Haaretz A military judge has criticized the military prosecutor’s office for relying on the testimony of a mentally challenged young man who referred to events that never took place. In doing so, the witness put a resident of the Palestinian West Bank village of Na’alin behind bars for nine…