Civilian deaths in Gaza under-reported
JPost: Civilian deaths in Gaza op were higher
More than half of the 1,382 Palestinians who were killed by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead did not take part in hostilities, the human rights organization B’Tselem said in a special report being published Wednesday morning regarding Palestinian fatality figures during the fighting. Palestinians search through…
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Why I love Bibi and Lieberman
How many times have we heard Bibi or some other right-wing flunky declare, in a passionate voice, that the bond between Israel and the US is unbreakable. Bibi sounds like a broken record here, and this is not the first time he has peppered his speech with the cute catchphrase: “…our bond with the US [...]
Netanyahu the desperate harbinger of peace
BBC: Israel sets terms for Palestinian state
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will back a Palestinian state – but only if it is completely demilitarised.
He said a Palestinian state must have no army, no control of its air space and no way of smuggling in weapons.
I’ve been wanting to write more about [...]
Peace is bad business in Israel
Haaretz: Israel knows that peace just doesn’t pay
Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.
Besides the collapse of the arms industry, I think [...]
Most Palestinian prisoners held unfairly
80% of prisoners in Palestinian jails being held without trial
About 18 months ago, a European Union delegation arrived in the Palestinian Authority to evaluate the condition of prisoners in Palestinian prisons. The delegation, which was attached to the European Union Police Coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support (Eupol Copps) – a group of European security [...]
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