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Activists assaulted during warrantless home invasions in Beit Ommar

Feb. 25, 2008 Israeli and international Human Rights Workers (HRW’s) from Hebron and Jerusalem were notified at 7pm on Monday Feb. 25 of two home invasions by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) at the village of Beit Ommar which has been the location of repeated assaults and curfews by the Israeli military. The two homes were both reported to contain at-risk persons including an elderly man dependent on oxygen and a stroke victim in the other…

February 26, 2008

Haaretz: The Palestinians’ ultimate doomsday weapon: Non-violence

By Bradley Burston The Palestinians have kept their ultimate doomsday weapon under tight wraps for 40 years. Israel knew about it. Israelis senior commanders could only pray that the Palestinians would never take it out and put it to actual use. Every Israeli soldier who served in Gaza knew about it, and also knew the hollowness in the declarations of IDF brass that “The army will now how to deal with it, should it happen.” In…

February 25, 2008

Ma’ariv: Leviev’s Diamonds at the Oscars

By Gal Karniel 2/24/08 | Ma’ariv on-line (Israel) (Translation by Adalah-NY) Human rights organizations around the world warn against wearing Angolan diamonds at the Oscar ceremony. Again Leviev is in the headlines. Leviev is loaning Oscar nominees jewelry for the award ceremony tonight organized by the U.S. film academy (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Human rights activists from Adalah-NY have asked the organizers of the 80th Oscar ceremony to respond in this matter. In…

February 24, 2008