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- A totally unnecessary death - Describing the practice by Israel's army of using Palestinian civilians as human shields as ruthless, unnecessary, and a disgrace to the army, in the context of the death of a nineteen-year-old man forced into such service by the IDF.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=198217
- Acrid Criticism - Discussing a book which analyzes the role of Israel's Supreme Court in the occupied territories from 1967 through the Al Aqsa Intifada, and suggests that it always rules in favor of Israel on important issues.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=173886
- Amnesty International Report 2002 - Israel and the Occupied Territories. - A report of human rights abuses by Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and militant groups operating in Israel and the occupied territories.
web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/israel+and+the+occupied+territories+!Open
- Burning the Oslo candle at both ends - Describing Israel's inconsistent approach to Oslo, where it episodically insists upon applying the accord even as it prevents the Palestinian Authority from acting, in the context of a small child who has been refused entry to Israel for treatment of terminal cancer.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=176667
- Clipping the fringes of academic freedom - Describing pressure on faculty and students in Israel's universities to avoid challenging official state policy toward the Israel-Palestine conflict, in the context of a professor who made a statement in support of soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=194141
- Detained in the West Bank - An Associated Press reporter describes his experience in detention, following Israel's mass arrests of Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus.
www.msnbc.com/news/740297.asp?cp1=1
- International Committee for the Defense of Azmi Bishara - Petitions against the sedition trial of the Arab Knesset MP.
azmibishara.info
- Israel fears invasion of immigrants - Describing Israel's new policies to impose significant financial costs upon, and impede immigration of, Palestinians from the occupied territories who marry Israeli citizens.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,738547,00.html
- Israel halts aid to territories from Iran and Iraq - Describing Israel's decision to stop humanitarian shipments of food and medicine to Palestinians in the occupied territories, and their questions about the motives behind the shipments.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=179337
- Israel's Human Rights Record in the Occupied Territories - A critique by Human Rights Watch of Israel's report on its conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories, focusing on hostage taking, torture, and prolonged administrative detention.
www.hrw.org/press98/july/iccprisr.htm
- Israel's Record of Occupation - Report about Israel's violations of the civil and political rights of Palestinians, by Human Rights Watch.
www.hrw.org/hrw/reports98/israel
- Israel's second periodic report to the Committee against Torture - Human Rights Watch Memorandum to the UN Commission Against Torture regarding Israel?s continued use of torture, prolonged administrative detention and hostage-taking.
www.hrw.org/press98/may/isra0515.htm
- Israel: Decision to Stop Use of "Human Shields" Welcomed - Describing an order by Israel's military leaders that its are to refrain from using Palestinians as human shields during military operations.
www.hrw.org/press/2002/05/israel0509.htm
- Israeli court outlaws torture - Describing a ruling by Israel's Supreme Court, significantly reducing the circumstances in which Israel may torture suspected militants.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,203133,00.html
- Israeli detention camp open - Describing the opening by Israel of an infamous prison camp where it held as many as 14,000 Palestinians prisoner without trial during the first Intifada, to house more than 4,000 civilians rounded up during its incursions, observing that less than ten percent of those held are known terror suspects, and less than a third are under suspicion.
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/3078473.htm
- Israeli government report admits systematic torture of Palestinians - Describing the admission that Israel historically tortured as many as eight-five percent of Palestinian detainees in its custody.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,193466,00.html
- Israeli troops shot five dead 'in error' - Describing Israel's explanation that an assault by Israeli forces which resulted in the deaths of five innocent Palestinian policemen resulted from 'bad information'.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,492238,00.html
- L.A. Doctor arrested in Israel - Describing Israel's detention without charge of a Palestinian American physician who went to the occupied territories to help victims of the recent military incursions, suggesting that it may be a political persecution.
www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/3243809.htm
- Portrait of a state sliding toward racism - Describing and criticizing the position of the National Democratic Alliance, which has warned that Israel is inching toward Apartheid, with political opportunists seeking to exploit the Israel-Palestine conflict and fan anti-Arab sentiment.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=203543
- Protest has become sedition - Describing how Israel is bringing spurious criminal charges against Palestinian citizens who engage in peaceful protest of its occupation and its military incursions in the West Bank and Gaza, and has proposed new laws to stifle protest.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=161384
- Punishment by detail - Criticizing world indifference and hypocrisy toward the plight of the Palestinian people, asserting that no other nation could get away with Israel's actions, and that its leaders know that terrorism will result from those actions. By Edward Said.
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/598/op2.htm
- Question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine - Human Rights Watch summary of what it describes as serious human rights and international humanitarian law violations by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories in the first six months of 2001.
www.hrw.org/press/2001/04/un_oral8_0405.htm
- Red line, Green Line, black flag - Retired IDF pilot Yigal Shochat argues that bombing runs on Palestinian cities are illegal or 'black flag' operations, so F-16 pilots should exercise their right to refuse illegal orders.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=118432&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
- Reports of Torture by Israelis Emerge - A human rights group alleges that Israeli soldiers break into homes after midnight to seize youths and torture them until they confess to rock-throwing.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A26223-2001Aug17
- Right livelihood awards - Israeli scientist Mordechai Vanunu, kidnapped by Mossad abroad and life-sentenced to solitary confinement for revealing that Israel has nuclear warheads, is commemorated here for his courage and sacrifice.
www.rightlivelihood.se/recip1987_5.html
- Setting the Record Straight - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency responds to propaganda meant to suggest that it is assisting terrorists in the course of its humanitarian activities in the occupied territories.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=154730
- Sharon tells AG to weigh court proceedings against Gush Shalom - Describing the Sharon Government's desire to muzzle an Israeli peace group that has sent letters to military officers cautioning them that illegal action in the occupied territories could result in war crimes charges.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=194105
- Some lives are cheaper than others - Examining the conduct and euphemisms used by Israel's army for such actions as blowing up occupied houses or using civilians as human shields, as revealing an inherent contempt for the value of Palestinian life.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=198645
- Statistics on the al-Aqsa Intifada - Statistics on injuries and deaths suffered by both sides in the conflict, as well as home demolitions, from the Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem.
www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/index.asp
- The last recourse - Cynically describing Ariel Sharon's reaction to the Israeli peace group, Gush Shalom's, sending letters of caution to fifteen Israeli military officers, in light of the effect of Israel's actions and collective punishments on innocent Palestinian civilians.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=196160
- Those Are My Brothers: A portrait of Felicia Langer - Ostracised and repeatedly threatened with death at the hands of her own people, lawyer Felicia Langer has not flinched since she adopted the Palestinian cause.
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1998/402/pal2.htm
- Time to stop the liquidations - Arguing that Israel's policy of assassinating suspected militant leaders is unwise, illegitimate, and largely unnecessary, noting the civilian casualties resulting from past assassinations, and suggesting that the policy is part of a pattern of excessive force.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=191415
- Trumpeting a blast of despair - The new president of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel expresses that the Palestinian conflict is poisoning Israeli democracy, and that Israel will eventually employ against its own citizens the tactics it uses in the occupied territories.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=208663
- US State Dept. Country Reports on Human Rights. - Chronicle of violence by both sides in Palestine.
www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/nea/index.cfm?docid=882
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