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from 'Times of Israel'
24 05 20
from 'Times of Israel'

Israel and the Diaspora: A call for honesty

24 05 20

Israel’s new government has promised to advance annexation legislation as soon as this July, a move that would make it impossible to argue that Israel is not an apartheid state, formalising a situation in which two distinct groups live under two highly disparate systems of law within one state

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from 'Ha'aretz '
11 05 20
from 'Ha'aretz '

Palestinians Under the Israeli Boot: A Formula for Tyranny in Cheap Makeup

11 05 20

The truth doesn’t always lie at the centerpoint of political debate. The truth wasn’t at the midpoint of the political debate in South Africa of the 1980s nor in the South in the United States of the 19th century

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from 'HuffPost'
07 04 20
from 'HuffPost'

Israel Had Never Issued A Press Credential To A Journalist From My Country. It Gave Me One.

07 04 20

As a Pakistani reporter covering U.S. foreign policy, I worried about writing on Palestine and Israel — until visiting gave me an empathy stronger than my fear.

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Israel’s real coronavirus test lies in freeing Palestinians from its grip

05 04 20

The solidarity we demonstrate with Palestinians today will determine what kind of country we live in when the pandemic is over.

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26 02 20 The Beating of Faisal Al-Natsheh
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The Beating of Faisal Al-Natsheh

26 02 20

Investigation into an Israeli soldier’s confession to having beaten a Palestinian in occupied Hebron in 2014

from 'Washington Jewish Week'
05 02 20
from 'Washington Jewish Week'

Why I speak out - Washington Jewish Week

05 02 20

By Benzion Sanders I was one of the panelists at the Breaking the Silence event at Temple Sinai in Washington last month (“Israel and U.S. Jews must break their shared silence,” Voices, Dec. 12). I never thought that after sharing experiences from my IDF service with fellow Jews I would be accused of helping to …

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03 02 20
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03 02 20

As a former soldier, I enforced two separate legal systems for Israelis and Palestinians. The Trump plan wants to make this reality permanent.

from 'The Guardian'
23 11 19 ’Drunk on power and boredom’: Israeli ex-soldiers depict life in the military
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'Drunk on power and boredom': Israeli ex-soldiers depict life in the military

23 11 19

In a controversial new photographic exhibition in Tel Aviv, Israeli former soldiers detail abuses they saw – and perpetrated

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21 11 19 The US policy shift on Israeli settlements will not stop Palestinians persevering
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The US policy shift on Israeli settlements will not stop Palestinians persevering

21 11 19

Surrounded by settlers and abandoned by the west, this latest setback will only strengthen support for the Palestinian cause

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video How the Battalion Commander raised morale video

How the Battalion Commander raised morale

Number: 66811

Unit: Armored Corps

Place: Gaza strip

Period: Operation Protective Edge 2014

 

[ House demolitions/razing ][ Protective Edge ][ Rules of engagement ]
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Nobody ever really believed for a moment that we’ll ever catch someone at the checkpost

Actually there’s no theoretical rationale behind it. In fact we don’t...

Number: 4324

Rank: First Sergeant

Unit: Nahal, 50th Battalion

Area: Nablus area

 

[ Checkpoints ][ Routine ]

We’re waging a ‘just war.’

You enter the house, just another family, and you see the furious look...

Number: 4321

Rank: First Sergeant

Unit: Paratroopers

Area: Nablus area

 

[ Destruction of property ][ House incursions/takeovers ][ Routine ]

I think that the argument about the most moral army in the world is a fig leaf, hiding what’s really happening

I suddenly understood that some of the things I did there are illegitimate,...

Number: 4322

Rank: Major

Unit: Artillery Corps

 

[ Routine ]

They really feel like they own the place

There, I remember, it was settler kids between the ages of 6 to 8. A group...

Number: 4361

Rank: First Sergeant

Unit: Nachal Special Forces

Area: Hebron

 

[ Settler violence ]
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