Gideon Levy's Blog, page 7

A society is judged by the way it treats its prisoners - Ha'aretz

[image error] A society is judged by the way it treats its prisoners
Ha'aretz
To the cheers of the attendees at the perverse market that was the Israeli Presidential Conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that the Palestinian prisoners' "exceptional conditions" will be made more strict. ...

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Twilight Zone / Island of sanity - Ha'aretz

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Ha'aretz
GRASO - Prof. Lars-Gunnar Bravander was excited. He stood by the side of the dirt trail, his sophisticated camera and binoculars resting on his belly. The professor's shirt was faded and wrinkled and had known better days. ...

Israeli democracy exploits its weakest citizens - Ha'aretz

[image error] Israeli democracy exploits its weakest citizens
Ha'aretz
There's no point dwelling on the Labor Party and its new dispute about voter registration. Nor is there any cause to fret about its system of primaries. There are worse systems, and no party has a better primaries set-up. ...

Israel has no right to stop Gaza aid flotillas - Institute for Middle East Understanding

[image error] Israel has no right to stop Gaza aid flotillas
Institute for Middle East Understanding
It's late at night in Sodra, a fashionable suburb south of Stockholm, and it's drinks all around. There's cheese from Italy and Scandinavian fish on the table; and an extremely alert, diverse crowd is gathered around the table. ...

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Israel has no right to stop Gaza aid flotillas - Ha'aretz

[image error] Israel has no right to stop Gaza aid flotillas
Ha'aretz
It's late at night in Sodra, a fashionable suburb south of Stockholm, and it's drinks all around. There's cheese from Italy and Scandinavian fish on the table; and an extremely alert, diverse crowd is gathered around the table. ...

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Twilight Zone / Field of nightmares - Ha'aretz

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Ha'aretz
[image error] Twilight Zone / Field of nightmares
Ha'aretz
A farmer walks through his plowed field, gathering radishes that have begun to thrust up from the soil. In the distance, another farmer, an elderly man, hoes his land. The deeply furrowed earth also yields cucumbers, zucchini, ...

The Foreign Ministry's futile UN campaign - Ha'aretz

[image error] The Foreign Ministry's futile UN campaign
Ha'aretz
As if the the shortening of the summer school break - a catastrophe narrowly averted at the last minute - were not enough, another national disaster made headlines last week: All September vacations for Foreign Ministry staff were ...

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Syrian slaughter and Israeli restraint - Ha'aretz

[image error] Syrian slaughter and Israeli restraint
Ha'aretz
Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is slaughtering dozens of unarmed Syrian demonstrators every day. In Israel we cluck our tongues in shock and say he is "slaughtering his own people," but when the Israel Defense Forces killed 23 ...

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Israel should heed ex-Mossad head's Iran attack warning - Ha'aretz

[image error] Israel should heed ex-Mossad head's Iran attack warning
Ha'aretz
Former Mossad intelligence agency head Meir Dagan is afraid and concerned. Most of the politicians, and amazingly (and absurdly ) enough, also a large number of journalists, want him to be quiet. They don't want him to get us upset with ...

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Twilight Zone / A burning issue - Ha'aretz

[image error] Twilight Zone / A burning issue
Ha'aretz
Eid and Mohammed find it difficult to stand up. Their wounds are very painful, they grimace. They are wearing filthy bandages, their hands and feet are wrapped and scarred, the skin of Eid's face is peeling. Eid and Mohammed Dajneh are ...

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