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Court allows lawless occupation due to “special circumstances”
In Israel, exceptions to the law justify the occupation, and protective measures do not protect those to whom the measures are applied. The state of exception is slowly but surely crossing the green line. By Noam Wiener Twice in the last few days, “special circumstances” have made news in Israel. First, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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December 29, 2011
Shin Bet releases detained Al-Jazeera reporter after 49 days’ imprisonment
How the occupation justice system saved face in the case of Samer Allawi In his influential book about the occupation circa early 1987, “The Yellow Wind,” David Grossman describes an unusual scene in a military court in the West Bank. The defense shows incontrovertible proof that the defendant cannot possibly be guilty of the crime…
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Yossi Gurvitz
September 28, 2011
Why are the security forces detaining hundreds in Awarta?
Former IDF Chief Rabbi calls for collective punishment of Palestinian villages in the West Bank In 1990, I was serving as an operations sergeant in the Dir El Balah – a town in the Gaza Strip – in the so-called Civil Administration. On Rosh Hashana of that year, a reservist soldier named Amnon Pomeranz made a fatal error and…
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Yossi Gurvitz
April 12, 2011
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Charges against Gazan engineer show strip is still occupied
Dirar Abu Sisi was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Ukraine. He is charged with developing rockets, missiles and mortar shells for Hamas Israel has kidnapped, apparently with the Ukrainian authorities turning a blind eye, a Gazan engineer named Dirar Abu Sisi. He was detained for several weeks under the usual schtick of a double gag…
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Yossi Gurvitz
April 5, 2011
Whistleblower of IDF crimes is smeared by Internal Security
Anat Kamm was convicted of divulging secret information – but the GSS smeared her as a dangerous spy Yesterday, a plea bargain was signed in the Anat Kamm case, and she pled guilty (Hebrew) to felonies she obviously committed: unauthorized possession of secret information and unauthorized delivery of it to unauthorized personnel. In return, the…
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Yossi Gurvitz
February 7, 2011
IDF on Bil’in: spins, half-truths and lies
Jawahar Abu-Rahmah of Bil’in was rushed to Ramallah hospital last Friday during an unarmed protest against the fence in her village. She passed away Saturday morning. Her death gained relatively wide publicity, and the IDF scramble to pushing its own version of the story, first claiming that Abu-Rahamh took part in a violent riot, and…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 4, 2011
Israel’s internal security service going after leftwing protesters
Another activist received an invitation to a meeting with Shabak. After refusing, he was warned that it would be in his best interest to come Yesterday, I reported here on two members of the leftwing group Anarchists against the Wall that were invited to a meetings with a Shabak (Israel’s internal security agency) operator calling…
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Noam Sheizaf
December 14, 2010
Two more activists invited for “friendly chat” by Shin Bet
One activist warned that his actions are known to the GSS; other chose to decline the invitation Two Israeli activists that take part in protests in the West Bank have been summoned to informal investigations by Israel’s General Security Service, the Shabak (formally Shin Beit). According to the two, they received phone calls inviting them…
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Noam Sheizaf
December 13, 2010
Israeli Police: violent, trigger-happy and politically biased
By Eyal Clyne | Translation: Dana Shunra This week, a policeman shot and killed a suspect. The deceased was suspected of harassment, of resisting arrest and of simply being too obsessive. There are those who also say he was suspected of an attempted vehicular assault, and he discovered that these were capital crimes. The late…
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November 10, 2010
The Light-Bringers: on Anat Kamm, Bradley Manning and Wikileaks
Wikileaks, Anat Kamm and Bradley Manning expose the corrupting power of secrecy. The whistleblowing site Wikileaks published during the weekend some 392,000 classified military documents, which it received, in all likelihood, from a US army soldier, Bradley Manning, who is already on trial. The documents, published in tandem with the New York Times, the Guardian…
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Yossi Gurvitz
October 24, 2010
Becoming a GSS state
The government is considering a Terror Bill, which is rather a newfangled thing: at the moment we have that cherished British heirloom, the Defense (Emergency) Regulations of 1945, and some bits and pieces of it haphazardly passed into law. Unfortunately, the suggested bill is likely to make the already unhealthy Israeli democracy even more moribund.…
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Yossi Gurvitz
October 7, 2010
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