Associazione Svizzera-Palestina

Gideon Levy,Haaretz 8, Juni 2014

... go way beyond the settlements

Every decent citizen, both in Israel and around the world, must cry out against the many horrors of the Israeli occupation- which have little to do with any West Bank construction.

Another Israeli “Price Tag” attack has been launched: An additional 1,500 settlement housing units have been announced in declared retaliation for the creation of a Palestinian unity government.

The mask was ripped off long ago, and Israel is no longer trying to hide that settlements are no more than a punishment. But they aren’t the real punishment. The real punishment is the continued tyranny. The settlements are a measure of Israeli intentions; they were built to eternalize the status quo and destroy any chances for agreements. But the real punishment is the insufferable injustices of the occupation, which are actually less discussed.

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Israel kann die Boykott- und Sanktionskampagne nicht mehr ignorieren

Eine Zusammenfassung des aktuellen

Standes der BDS-Kampagne

auf Le Monde diplomatique

We are incapable of understanding the suffering of a society, its cry, and the future of an entire nation that has been kidnapped by us.

Avraham Burg - Haaretz, 18.6.2014

All of Palestinian society is a kidnapped society. Like many of the Israelis who performed “significant service” in the army, many of the readers of this column, or their children, entered the home of a Palestinian family in the middle of the night by surprise, with violence, and simply took away the father, brother or uncle, with determination and insensitivity. That is kidnapping, and it happens every day. And what about their administrative detainees?

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The Australian film, titled ‘Stone Cold Justice’ documents how Palestinian children, who have been arrested and detained by Israeli forces, are subjected to physical abuse, torture and forced into false confessions and pushed into gathering intelligence on Palestinian activists. (10. Feb. 2014, 45 Min.)

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A joint investigation by Four Corners and The Australian newspaper