
The cat came, and ate the goat
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Selection of past
week
Operation Dove: Israeli army fails to protect
Palestinian children
Operation Dove - AIC - "According to a new report released by Operation Dove, the mandatory Israeli military escort that is supposed to ensure that Palestinian children arrive to school safely failed to walk with the children 95% of the time since the school year began in September. HRW accuses Israel of rights
violations
Jerusalem Post Staff - In annual report on rights abuses, group charges Israel with using unnecessary lethal force. `Talk to us,` says Hamas in rare visit to
Europe
Adri Nieuwhof - EI - "The IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians met in Geneva on 14 January to discuss parliamentarians under threat. The IPU collected information about lawmakers who face death threats, are subjected to harassment, or are unable to carry out their parliamentary mandate without hindrance and invited the delegation from Gaza to clarify the situation of the Palestinian lawmakers." Israel`s legal `abuse` of Arab minority is
undemocratic
Oudeh Basharat - Haaretz - The call for international public opinion to raise its voice completes the struggle of the democratic forces here. This will make it clear to all that the right-wing establishment in Israel has crossed a line in the direction of apartheid. Shalit exchange for Palestinian political prisoners - stage 2: six
more women released; others left disappointed
WOFPP Newsletter - Two days before the second step of the exchange, all Palestinian women political prisoner went on a hunger strike. Instead of evacuating them now, Netanyahu offers settlers
alternative land for Migron, later
Peace Now: Netanyahu`s proposal is a cynical spin designed to not have to implement the Court`s decision and to postpone the evacuation of the outpost for years to come. [The Supreme Court ruled that the Migron settlers be evacuated from private Palestinian lands not later than March 2012-bz] Study: IDF officers less committed to Jewish
values after visits to Nazi death camps
Chaim Levinson - Haaretz - The trips also produced a decline in IDF-related values, including commitment to the state and the army, feelings of leadership, and love of heroism. These findings are the exact opposite of a large-scale study that the same researchers did on how death-camp visits affected high-school students. [Could it be that soldiers, more than pupils, recognized what military power is capable of?-bz] Unenthusiastic defense of boycott law by
reluctant Knesset legal advisor
Gush Shalom - Neither the Knesset nor the government have given a real response to the contention that this law violates fundamental civil rights in Israel, giving a precedence to the interests of those who benefit from the occupation and denying freedom of expression to opponents of the settlements. 10 percent of Israeli academics labeled
`anti-Zionist` by campus watchdogs
Talila Nesher - Haaretz - The people who will be hurt most are junior faculty members who are trying for university positions and are wary of being `marked out,`" Prof. Neve Gordon said. Globe theatre defends hosting controversial
Israeli company
Matt Trueman - The Guardian - The [Boycott from within] group argue that the Globe`s programming of Habima`s The Merchant of Venice, which "emphasises the issue of xenophobia", is incompatible with Habima`s performances in West Bank settlements to an exclusively Israeli audience, with Palestinians living even in the nearest village being physically excluded from any chance of attending.
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