Exposed by the Guardian The going isn’t easy for an army of war criminals in the 21st century. You can keep the media out of the war zone. You can requisition soldiers’ cell phones before sending them into action. You can…
Article Author: Wolfson, Yossi
Israel’s Africa Problem
All photos by activestills.org ISRAEL likes to indulge in the illusion that it is part of Western Europe or one of the United States. Its border with Egypt, however, serves as a reminder concerning its location: in the Middle East, adjoining…
Economic Warfare in Gaza
NO MORE LIES lies or twisted tongues. Israel is saying at last what, in the past, it always refused to acknowledge: its war is against the Palestinian population. Until now, in discussions about the separation wall, closures, blockades, house demolition,…
Daniel Friedmann versus the High Court of Israel
WHEN EHUD OLMERT became Prime Minister of Israel, he appointed his good friend Haim Ramon to head the Justice Department. Ramon had a number of achievements behind him. In 1994, as chairperson of the Histadrut (the General Federation of Labor),…
The Loophole
Torture in Israel TWO RECENT REPORTS by human rights organizations open a small window into the torture chambers of Israel. Eight years have passed since the High Court made its historic decision forbidding torture, and now it is clear that…
In Dixieland
IT WOULD APPEAR that the IDF Commander for the Central Region, headquartered at Bethel in the West Bank, wanted to come up with a creative gesture to aid us in remembering the late Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Parks…
Racism in High Places
WHERE RACISM takes root, it must be identified. Blindness to it is a common but dangerous blight. Equally common are the ploys used to excuse it. The most recent decision of Israel’s High Court of Justice, approving the “Law of…
Two Courts and a Wall
TO be a judge, you sometimes need to be a good acrobat. You must be able to walk a tightrope between the law on one hand and, on the other, the inclinations of the heart or political exigencies or a…
Gaza: A Decade of Disengagement
NOT a single Israeli has yet disengaged from the Gaza Strip, but disengagement has been underway for several years where Gazans are concerned, cutting them off from the world outside their prison-enclave. Strange to think, but until 1993 Gaza was…