Category: The Middle East

In law or in practice

Children in Military Custody – new report by leading UK lawyers By Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine), 28 Jun 2012   On 26 June a new report on children held in Israeli military detention was published in London. The report – Children in military custody – was produced by a delegation of UK lawyers …

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Modern-day version of maktab thani

Free the refugees of Nahr al-Bared By Marcy Newman, 26 Jun 2012 22:06   Last week at a candlelight vigil in Baddawi refugee camp for the camp’s dead and injured, signs posted on the school wall asked why, after five years, was Nahr al-Bared still a closed military zone? For the past five years, all …

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Freedom, justice and peace in the world

A Cruel and Unusual Record By Jimmy Carter, June 24, 2012   The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human …

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A man born long before his time

Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him By Robert Fisk, Monday 25 June 2012   While 50 million Egyptians were waiting yesterday to hear that they had elected a Muslim Brotherhood mediocrity over a Mubarak bag-carrier, I paid a visit to the home …

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Chaplains of the status quo

Christians and the Kill List By William Alberts, June 19, 2012   In broad daylight, without a Christian murmur, President Obama has placed a “kill list” on the altar of “American values.”  An unconstitutional, international law-violating, indifferent to innocent civilians, anti-American-breeding “kill list.”  A national security advisors-created, biographical “baseball cards”-like, “PowerPoint slides-amplified “kill list,” comprised …

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Boom, boom!

Tourists venture to West Bank to ‘shoot terrorists’ By Akiva Novick, 06.18.12, 13:31   Summer camp, warfare style: Like a frozen turkey plunged into boiling oil, a group of American tourists descend from an air-conditioned van into the scorching heat of the West Bank. Flashing smiles all around, they march into Caliber 3, a local …

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Washington will be pleased

Assad will breathe a sigh of relief at death of Arab Spring By Robert Fisk, Saturday 16 June 2012   The end of the Egyptian Revolution? I suppose we could have seen it coming; the marginalisation of the original rebels of Tahrir Square, fobbed off with a few trials, while the military encrusted themselves round …

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