HP Enterprises pulls out of Israeli contract

The Aviv System is described in its promotional literature as a “short to mid-range surveillance system designed for perimeter defense and border protection.” HP Enterprises has maintained the system for Israel for the past decade. They’re now pulling out and turning the system over to Israel to maintain by itself. This is not the end …

It was a year ago that B’Tselem declare that Israel was an apartheid state

It’s been a year since the NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) B’Tselem declare that Israel was an apartheid state, a state that copied many of the features of South Africa while under white rulers. Israel is now really concerned. Not about the fact that it is clearly an apartheid state, but about the cracks in its narrative …

Palestinians – events of late 2021

Emma Watson – who has played roles from Hermione Granger in Harry Potter movies to Belle in Beauty and the Beast and Meg March in Little Women, has come out as pro-Palestinian. She was, of course, immediately smeared as being antisemitic. Israeli diplomats and propagandists have long maintained that the Palestinian people’s opposition to their …

Israeli Settler Violence in West Bank

“Israel arrests Palestinians suspected of killing settler” “The four [Palestinian men] are suspected of firing at least ten bullets at a car, killing 25-year-old religious student Yehuda Dimentman and injuring two fellow students as they drove out of Homesh, an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank. “The army said the suspects were caught in …

Two UN officials criticize Israeli settler violence in the West Bank

When the blogger refers to “squatter-settlers,” he’s referring to about 475k Israeli settlers who have seized land within the 1967 border of the West Bank (Palestinian population in the West Bank is over 5 million). With both populations growing, the West Bank Palestinians and the Israeli settlers are experiencing increasing friction. Settlers, of course, are …

Information on Palestinian human rights organizations obtained through torture

Unfortunately, this general problem has been with us since at least the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964.  Two US Navy destroyers, USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy, were allegedly attacked off the coast of North Vietnam. We learned later that President Johnson was aware that the destroyers weren’t attacks, but he used the “attack” as …