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- Tel Aviv Slaps `Collective Punishment' On
- By Candace Wagner, The Militant,
18 March 1996. The raid on the Al Fawwar refugee camp near
Hebron on the West Bank, confining 7,000 people to their
homes in a 24-hour curfew. Palestinian men were rounded up,
blindfolded, and questioned. Soldiers sealed the homes of
accused bombers and threatened to arrest family members.
- Answer to the judge: The ticking bomb and the
license to torture
- By Stephen Langfur, Challenge,
30 November 1996.
Ticking bomb in favor of torture
and a rebuttal. Argument against torture's efficacy. The
High Court is supposed to be the ultimate resort of the
individual to protect him from the excesses of the governing
power, but it has become the mask of legitimacy behind which
the governing power relentlessly grinds his bones.
- Israel and the occupied territories: The State
of Israel has effectively legalized torture
- Oral statement by Amesty International to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights on the Israeli Occupied
Territories, 11 March 1997.
- The return of the
iron fist policy:
Israeli military escalates aggression against Palestinian
- From the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
and the Environment, 14 July 1997. Escalation of violence
against the populations of Bethlehem and Hebron. Foreign Press
Association charged the Israeli army with deliberately
targeting journalists during the demonstrations.
- Number of Palestinians / Israelis Killed in
Mideast Violence Over Past 10 Years
- By Ali Abunimah, Salam Review,
November 1997. Summary of B'Tselem web site that lists
casualty statistics for Israelis and Palestinians since
Dec. 1987 (the beginning of the Intifada). Challenges the
media-inspired impression that it is overwhelmingly Israelis
who suffer at the hands of Arabs.
- Israeli Government Proposes Impunity for Human
- From B'Tselem, 14 December 1997. Government sponsored bill
retroactively defines all actions of the Israeli security
forces in the Occupied Territories as
which are exempt from civil damage suits. A coalition
of seven Israeli human rights organizations combat this
- Jewish settlers terrorize Palestinians: A
- By Samah Jabr, Mid-East Realities,
11 October 2000. Settlers are as varied as people anywhere,
but most believe fully in their right to be in the Holy Land.
They have come, some tell us, in order to fulfill God's
command that all the righteous, especially, all the righteous
Jews, live in the Holy Land to prepare the way for the
coming of God or God's acts of salvation.
- Research Shows Israeli Pattern of Excessive
Force; Palestinian Authority Also Fails in Duty to Protect
- Human Rights Watch, 17 October 2000. The HRW, reputedly
closely associated with US foriegn policy, reduces Israeli
culpability for excessive violence by equating it with
the quantitatively lesser violence committed by
- The cost of weakness
- By Khaled Amayreh, 21 November 2000. The Israeli occupation
army continued its murderous repression of the Palestinian
populace. This week, as many as 40 Palestinians, among them
10 children, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers and settlers
achieving victory over an essentially
unarmed populace striving to end 33 years of Israeli
military occupation. They sneak in at night, fully armed
and often with Israeli soldiers.
- Israel's undercover assassins
- By Paul Wood, BBC News, 1 August, 2001. Killings are carried
out by the Israeli army, or by Shin Bet, Israel's security
services, known to Israelis as the Shabakthought to
have a large network of Palestinian agents on the West Bank.
Identification of those Shabak says have carried out, or
will carry out,
terrorist bombings become
military actions - what the Palestinians call