Category: In the Media

  • Ynet: UN Envoy Condemns Israeli “Ethnic Cleansing” of Palestinians

    Special UN envoy on human rights in Palestinian territories says in special report Israel’s actions in territories can be described as ‘ethnic cleansing,’ adds three-quarters of Gaza population depend on food aid for survival from YnetNews, 26th September 2006. By Ali Waked and Reuters United Nations Human rights envoy to the Palestinian territories John Dugard…

  • Haaretz: Israeli “Law as Roadkill on Highway 443”

    by Akiva Eldar, September 26th The masses of Israelis who regularly travel to Jerusalem via Modi’in are familiar with the large cement cubes near the signs that indicate the approach roads to the Palestinian villages on either side of the main road known as Highway 443. Anyone who bothers to look to the sides will…

  • Israeli Colonists Break Old Man’s Leg in Susia

    by PSP September 23, 2006: As we walk away down the craggy biblical landscape, she turns around to wag her finger at him and say “Remember? It is no defence to say you were only following orders”. The soldier looks perplexed and puts his hands out, letting his gun hang down from its strap. He…

  • Boston Globe: “Israeli Policy divides Palestinian families”

    by Matthew Kalman, September 23rd Immigration crackdown in West Bank EL-BIREH, West Bank — Nariman Yazbak and her 2-year-old daughter, Salma, left their home in the West Bank town of El Bireh last April for a routine visit to relatives in Jordan. Six months later, she is still trying to return. Yazbak’s husband, Rami, a…

  • Haaretz: “Routine Anarchy” of the Israeli Colonies

    by Akiva Eldar, September 21st Last Tuesday, the Interior Ministry held another session of the inquiry commission on changing Modi’in Ilit’s status from that of a local council to a city. Ostensibly, this is a routine process of upgrading a community that meets the accepted standards. In effect, we have before us another example of…