Veröffentlicht: 14. December 2010
If passed, the bill would authorize the prison director to prevent a detainee from meeting with an attorney for up to seven days, instead of the current maximum period of 24 hours. By Jonathan Lis
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill yesterday that would allow the state to prevent detainees suspected of security offenses from meeting with an attorney for up to one year.
The bill, introduced by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, aims to keep...
Veröffentlicht: 14. December 2010
Rami Almeghari,The Electronic Intifada, 10 December 2010
Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip's only power plant, plunging the territory -- which already suffers from frequent outages -- into darkness.Media reports said the air strikes hit two sites belonging to Hamas near the Gaza power plant in...
Veröffentlicht: 13. December 2010
Former Israeli soldiers who have testified against army abuses have for the first time given up their anonymity, to make their voices all the harder to ignore. Donald Macintyre gets an exclusive preview of a powerful new book, Sunday, 12 December 2010, The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent
Avichay Stolar is a researcher of Breaking the Silence. He says: 'Young soldiers learn from their officers, they imitate their friends in the unit, and they learn to act in a brutal and insensitive way'
For anyone who has covered Israel, the West Bank and Gaza over the past few years,...
Veröffentlicht: 13. December 2010
26 former top EU officials, including ex EU chief Solana and former German President Richard von Weizsacker, urge world powers to confront Jerusalem over its refusal to obey international law. By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz 12.10.2010
A group of 26 senior former European leaders who held power during the past decade are calling for strong measures against Israel in response to its settlement policy and refusal to abide by international law.
In an unusual letter sent Thursday to the leadership of the...
Veröffentlicht: 11. December 2010
Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Guy Burton
Conflict-related Development Analysis Program:
Occupied Palestinian Territory, Conflict Causes and Development Initiatives – A Structural Analysis
by Dr. Guy Burton (Researcher at the Centre for Development Studies at BirZeit University, Ramallah, West Bank)...
Veröffentlicht: 11. December 2010
Canadian Boat to Gaza Project
http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/donations.aspx
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Veröffentlicht: 1. December 2010
November 30, 2010
Israel’s measures to 'ease’ the illegal blockade of Gaza in the face of significant international pressure have done little to change the plight of Gaza’s civilians, says a report published today by an international coalition of development, human rights and peace-building organisations. They are...
Veröffentlicht: 1. December 2010
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, November 30, 2010
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/thoughtsongermanyandpalestine/
The conference in Stuttgart about Palestine was themed "Separated in the past, together in the future", was sold-out, and had some high powered speakers and lots of energy [1]. We listened, spoke, networked, bought each...
Veröffentlicht: 30. November 2010
http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/786
http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/786
Occupied Palestine, 30 November 2010 - "May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence‟, pleaded intellectual Bertrand Russell at the first meeting of the citizens' War Crimes Tribunal that investigated US war crimes during its war on Vietnam....
Veröffentlicht: 30. November 2010
by PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity),# 511 Nov 26th 2010
"For those of us who live here, it is something we take for granted. But visitors from abroad cannot believe their eyes."
Under the guise of the deceptively mundane name "Amendment to the Cooperative Associations Bill," the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Israeli...