Category: In the Media

  • Israel defends right to arrest foreigners in West Bank

    Chaim Levinson | Ha’aretz 24 March 2010 The state argued Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces has as the right to make arrests in Area A on the basis of a 1970 order that does not allow unauthorized persons to stay there for more than 48 hours without permission from the military commander. The state…

  • Israelis are behaving like spoiled rich brats

    Haaretz 21 March 2010 The terrifying specter of non-violent resistance to the occupation and the apartheid regime is hovering over the State of Israel, and all the state’s dignitaries have been recruited to battle it. This non-violent resistance operates both in areas under Israel’s reign of control, in the form of a popular struggle on…

  • The Break on Palestine

    David Bromwich | The Huffington Post 16 March 2010 To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain.” The Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar was tapping a vein of bitter Jewish wit when he wrote those words about the humiliation of the vice president on his recent state-visit to Israel.…