• Haaretz: No to evacuation

    By Gideon Levy The Yahalom and Bar Kochba families must be returned without delay to their homes in the wholesale marketplace from which they were expelled. The Israel Defense Forces must immediately reconnect their electricity and water and ensure their safety, day and night, as it does for all the settlers in the city. In return the Yahaloms and Bar Kochbas will serve the soldiers coffee and cookies, and kugel for Shabbat, as they always do.…

  • Left-wing activists, Palestinians cut hole in separation fence

    By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent Left-wing activists and Palestinians cut a 30-meter hole in the security fence south of Mount Hebron on Saturday in a demonstration against its construction and route, which they said deviates from the Green Line. The activists said it took Israel Defense Forces at least an hour to reach the site of the incident. There were no clashes between the activists and IDF troops. Jonathan Pollack, one of the protesters, told Haaretz…

  • Occupation 101

    Israeli historian Ilan Pappe describes the period around the declaration of Israel’s independence as one during which the indigenous…Palestinian population was ethnically cleansed from the land when they were forced from their homes or fled in terror after hearing news of rapes and massacres at other villages. Today, the situation is not much better for the Palestinians under Israeli rule. The purpose is essentially, “To make things so difficult for the Palestinians so that anyone who…

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