Collective Punishment

Pacific Free Press: War Criminal Retirement Plan: Bush's Paraguay Get-Away 2008-05-16

... to Geneva Convention violations like approval of torture of prisoners, collective punishment of civilians, the killing of children and child soldier ...

Dissident Voice: Zionist Ideology and Propaganda: In Israel, America, and Germany 2008-05-15

The expulsions began while Britain was still responsible for law and order. The only (relatively small) causal connection between Germany and ...

CounterCurrents.org: Celebrating 60 Years Of Israel"s Terror 2008-05-15

Soldiers also bulldozed 372 Dunams (one Dunam is 1000 square meters) of agricultural land and demolished 15 homes. In the West Bank and Jerusalem ...

International Solidarity Movement: 500 children, from Tulkarem refugee camp, attempt to march ... 2008-05-15

... where the children were quickly stopped by Israeli soldiers positioned at the illegal Israeli apartheid wall that runs through the edge of Tulkarem city ...

BBC News: Palestinians mark 'catastrophe' 2008-05-15

While Mr Bush praised Israel, many Palestinians accuse the country of hurting the innocent and of collective punishment in its attempts to quash Palestini ...

All American Patriots (press release): Defense Dept. Contracts for May 14, 2008: $197 Million to Lockheed ... 2008-05-15

Work will be performed in Clearwater, Fla., (52 percent); Austin, Texas, (34 percent); Iwata-Gun Shizoka, Japan, (8 percent); and Natanya, Israel ...

Al-Arabiya: "The story has not yet ended" 2008-05-15

While a large number were scrappy shelters erected by bedouin in íunrecognisedì communities in the Negev, Israel demolished hundreds of houses elsewhere ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Nakba at 60 2008-05-15

Hundreds of Palestinian villages were razed , while others, emptied of their Palestinian residents, were populated by Jewish immigrants.

Al-Arabiya: The roots of the conflict in Palestine 2008-05-15

Despite the ethnic cleansing which took place in 1848 when the Zionist terror organizations expelled around 70 percent of Palestinians from their ancestral ...

The People's Voice: The Terror that begot Israel 2008-05-15

After the expulsion, the Zionist terrorist army razed to the ground hundreds of Arab towns, villages and hamlets and obliterated their remains.

EuropeNews: • 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians - The True Story 2008-05-15

In Jaffa, Palestine"s largest Arab city, the municipality organized the transfer of thousands of residents by land and sea; in Jerusalem, the AHC ordered ...

Palestine News Network: PLO Negotiations Affairs Department: Palestinian Refugees 2008-05-15

Their homes, like the homes of other Palestinian refugees, were either demolished or given to Jewish immigrants 6- What happened to the property of ...

MiamiHerald.com: Hezbollah in control 2008-05-15

Among other things, this method of resolving disputes, at the point of a militia's guns, demolishes any pretense that Lebanon is anything resembling ...

Five Towns Jewish Times Online: Calm By Force 2008-05-15

... Palestinians of Gaza who are victims of collective punishment for merely letting terrorists use their homes to launch rockets and stockpile weapons.

Middle East Online: Saudis expected to press Bush on Palestinian deal to curb Iran 2008-05-15

He said Riyadh will also raise "Israel's ongoing policy of imposing collective punishment on the Palestinian people and its continuing blockade of the Gaz ...

Polish Radio External Service: President Kaczynski wraps up his visit to Israel 15.05.2008 2008-05-15

Palestinians never accepted the loss of their property and land. The Palestinian Autonomy wants the state of Israel to let the refugees come home.

Ha'aretz: PA slated to take over security in Jenin area 2008-05-14

Israel will also be reevaluating about 1000 demolition orders for illegally built Palestinian homes, and will allow Palestinian customs officers to ...

Ha'aretz: Israel to transfer security in Jenin area to Palestinians 2008-05-14

By Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents Israel and the Palestinians have been discussing an almost complete transfer of security ...

San Francisco Bay Guardian: Tuesday, May 13th 2008-05-14

The abysmal gray of Fengjie, a town dominated by demolition due to the Three Gorges Dam project, befits the uncertainty and seemingly bleak prospects ...

Media Monitors Network: Roadmap needs serious US monitoring 2008-05-11

... groups into the security services, a program that proved more efficient than the previous Israeli approach of collective punishment and brutal violence.

ZNet: Canada and the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Part 3 of 3 2008-05-08

Instead, with the disaster facing indigenous Palestinians clear to anyone watching, Canadian representatives argued for UN recognition of Israel in ...

Huffington Post: Kucinich, Hinchey: Secretary Rice Should Press Israel for Real ... 2008-05-08

A peaceful resolution to conflict can only be achieved with the support and trust of both Israelis and Palestinians . For that reason, the Administration' ...

International Middle East Media Center: Palestine Today 050808 2008-05-08

During the military operation in Abasan, the Israeli army demolished 4 homes and razed vast areas of Palestinian-owned farm lands.

International Middle East Media Center: Ban Ki-Moon: problem of Palestinian refugees should be solved 2008-05-08

He criticized what he described the 'Israeli policy of collective punishment ' against the Palestinian people in Gaza for the past 11 months, calling on ...

International Middle East Media Center: The Israeli army leave Khan Younis; 2 killed, 20 injured and 40 ... 2008-05-08

During the military operation Abasan town the Israeli army demolished 4 homes razed vast areas of Palestinian-owned farm lands in addition by Thursday ...

Fight Back! Newspaper: From Basra to Baghdad: Upsurge in anti-occupation fighting sweeps Iraq 2008-05-08

In an act of collective punishment , al-Maliki cordoned off Sadr City from the rest of Baghdad. About 2.5 million Iraqis, mostly poor and working cl ...

BBC News: BBC users reflect on Israel's 60th 2008-05-08

I am researching the impact of house demolition on Palestinians in East Jerusalem. All the while settlements are growing - but if one Palestinian wants ...

Economist: The Palestinians The wandering Palestinian 2008-05-08

Yasser al-Hajj, a 27-year-old engineer whose family came here from Safad in northern Palestine (now part of Israel ), takes a break from shovelling rubble ...

Palestine News Agency: PCHR: IOF Kills 9 Citizens, 1 Woman, Arrests 100 in WB, GS - WAFA 2008-05-08

PCHR said that the IOF razed 484 Donums of agricultural land and destroyed 5 greenhouses, 9 bird farms and 23 houses in the southern (GS).

Palestine News Agency: IOF Troops Kill Mother of 7 Children in Khan Younis City - WAFA 2008-05-08

The IOF troops also demolished five houses of Abu Ta'eimah, al-Dughma and al-Farra families in the town. The Israeli incursion into Abbasa town resulted ...

Journal of Turkish Weekly: Country Reports on Terrorism 2007: Europe and Eurasia Overview - I 2008-05-08

The French government continued its policy of expelling non-French citizens engaged in terrorist activities or speech that promoted hate or incited violence ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Remembering the Palestinian Nakba 2008-05-08

While Israel celebrates 60 years since its establishment, Palestinians everywhere commemorate the "Nakba"("Catastrophe" in Arabic) that befell them ...

The People's Voice: The lying old man 2008-05-08

For sure, had the Palestinians been strong, Israel would not have destroyed their towns, demolished their homes, bulldozed their farms before expelling them ...

The People's Voice: Bush to Nasrallah: An Offer Hezbollah Cannot Refuse? Part V ... 2008-05-08

The US would be prepared to transfer directly to Hezbollah designated bank accounts "enormous sums of money to spend on the territories Israel destroyed ...

Xinhua: Palestinians to stage one-hour strike against Israel's celebration 2008-05-08

... our land and houses which they (the Israelis) demolished ." On Thursday, Israel celebrates its anniversary in accordance with the Hebrew lunar calendar.

The Daily Item of Lynn: Swampscott Town Meeting forms building study committee 2008-05-08

The Town Building Study Committee also recommended the former senior center be sold, leased or demolished to provide municipal parking space.

National Post: From The Hague To Hamas, Anti-Semitism Refuses To Die 2008-05-08

I learned that the Jordanian occupiers had razed 30 synagogues in the old Jewish section of the city and that the former British Palestinian Mandate w ...

Press of Atlantic City: Remembering Israel's birth 2008-05-08

"Hundreds of Palestinian villages were razed to the ground and replaced by Israeli villages and public parks, or just completely erased.

Rocky Mountain News: Witnesses to birth of state of Israel still carry the flame 2008-05-08

Later that year, he trained as a frogman in the 13th Fleet Sheyeth Shlosh Esrei, the fabled underwater demolition unit of the new Israeli Navy.

World Socialist Web Site: Deep unease as Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary 2008-05-08

... assassinated its opponents, killed hundreds of Palestinians and inflicted illegal and cruel collective punishment on the entire population.

International Middle East Media Center: Hamas government says Israeli-Palestinian talks 'aimless and useless' 2008-05-06

... the historical homeland of Palestine by expanding settlements and tightening the siege on Gaza as well as building an Apartheid Wall in the West Bank.

International Middle East Media Center: Israeli government goes against roadmap agreement; approves Modi ... 2008-05-06

The village of Bil'in has beeen a symbol of Palestinian non-violent resistance, with weekly solidarity protests including Palestinians and Israel ...

Registan.net: Why the Taliban Ceasefire Won"t Matter 2008-05-06

Recent stories about the expansion of Shari"a courts in Swat, Dir, Kohistan, and Chitral all note the similarities of a collective punishment regime to ...

ZNet: Canada and the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Part 1 of 3 2008-05-06

A detailed exploration of these discussions is provided by Nur Masalha (Expulsion of the Palestinians : the concept of " transfer " in Zionist political ...

Los Angeles Times: Divergent paths for West Bank brothers 2008-05-06

Ahmed took up arms in 2004 after the Israeli army, searching for Ala, demolished part of the family's tiny house with a bulldozer. That's the last night ...

Al-Arabiya: America: The Height of Insult 2008-05-06

Terrorism did not strike the United States alone, everyone has security concerns and security measures should not mean collective punishment ...

Ha'aretz: J'lem source: Rice seeks Israel, PA memo this week 2008-05-06

According to these sources, Israel initially expressed a willingness to cede 90 percent of the West Bank to the Palestinians , while the PA demanded at least ...

Reuters: FACTBOX-Israel's painful birth in 1948 2008-05-06

Most buildings in the quarter, including 58 of its 59 synagogues, are demolished . June 23 - Defying UN arms embargo and raising fears of a Jewish civil war ...

Scoop.co.nz: Undernews For May 5, 2008 2008-05-06

... to Geneva Convention violations such as approval of torture of prisoners, collective punishment of civilians, the killing of children and child soldier ...

Gulf Daily News: US monitors to study barriers 2008-05-06

The Palestinians regard them as a form of collective punishment that has crippled their economy. Washington is eager to show progress ahead of a visit later ...

Episcopal-Life: No longer strangers 2008-05-06

We heard over and over from Palestinian Christians about forced evictions and houses being demolished . The West Bank is occupied territory, controlled ...

TopNews: Cannes shows its magic with star-studded film line-up 2008-05-06

... is returning to Cannes with his new film 24 City, which recounts the lives of workers in a factory earmarked for demolition to make for a skyscraper.

Rabble.ca: The meaning of Hillary's hawkish talk 2008-05-06

The pharmaceutical plant had only been in operation for one year when it was demolished . It was providing 50 per cent of the pharmaceuticals for Sud ...

Stamford Advocate: Pricey real estate forces some churches to share space in rented ... 2008-05-06

"If you don't have a building," he said, "you're going to look like Israel ." Most have tried to buy buildings, only to be confounded and thwarted by city ...

Globe and Mail: Fuel shortage has most of Gaza running on fumes 2008-05-06

"Israel just puts in one drop after another. They're trying to put Gaza under stress. It's collective punishment ."

Jakarta Post: Generals and the 'invention of tradition' 2008-05-06

... resulting in Army casualties were usually followed by heavy-handed retaliation as collective punishment for villages allegedly supporting rebels.

Earthtimes (press release): European-Israeli ties - a story of sympathy and ambivalence - Feature 2008-05-06

Indeed, according to a 2007 report by the Anti-Defamation League, more Europeans sympathize with the Palestinians than the Israelis today - but a majority ...

Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck: 8 tornadoes in Ark....Iran debate...McCain at the ballgame ... 2008-05-05

(AP) President Bush is hailing the resilience of Greensburg, Kansas, which just a year ago was virtually demolished by a tornado. The president delivered ...

Middle East Times: UN suspends Gaza food aid again 2008-05-05

Palestinians gather to inspect the damage done to a home as a demolished house sits in the background following an Israeli operation in the Southern Gaz ...