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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »West Bank rises up in a new ‘white’ intifada
Donald Macintyre | The Independent 12 March 2010 Ehab Barghouti would not have been at the demonstration at all if his father Asdal had had his way. Asdal found his son, 14, on the road from their village of Beit ...
Read More »State to reinvestigate wounding of U.S. activist
Cnaan Liphshiz | Ha’aretz 12 March 2010 The state this week agreed to reinvestigate the 2009 near-fatal wounding of American pro-Palestinian protester Tristan Anderson in the West Bank, after his lawyer complained that the discontinued probe of the case was ...
Read More »Border Control / Biden and the bulldozer
Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 9 March 2010 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel yesterday, didn’t look for camels among the cars on the road from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Jerusalem. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing ...
Read More »Israel: end crackdown on Anti-Wall activists
Human Rights Watch 5 March 2010 Israel should immediately end its arbitrary detention of Palestinians protesting the separation barrier, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel is building most of the barrier inside the West Bank rather than along the Green ...
Read More »Picking pebbles to live somehow
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 2 March 2010 They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into ...
Read More »Guardian: Rachel Corrie’s family bring civil suit over death in Gaza
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 23 February 2010 The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the ...
Read More »CNN: West Bank wall still triggers weekly protests in village
CNN 12 February 2010 Tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and rocks: It must be Friday afternoon in the West Bank village of Bil’in. It’s billed as a nonviolent protest against what Israel calls its security barrier, what the Palestinians ...
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