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Israeli State Steals Funds from Holocaust Survivors Living in Poverty

    Holocaust survivors accuse State of stealing their welfare funds Full story at Y Net Survivors promised $7.7 million in 2007, but records show they received only half that amount. Government offices vow they transferred full amount to Finance Ministry, which says survivors were only slated to receive $3.8 million The funds were used…

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Edinburgh City Wants out of Israeli Water Contract, but Bottles out, Afraid of Legal Action

  Edinburgh City Council Bottles Out of Boycott of Israeli Water Company Labour Group Votes Unanimously for Boycott SNP & Lib Dems Afraid of being Sued by Israeli Criminals, Eden Springs Tories Say Thacherite South African anti-Boycott ‘Law Must be Obeyed’ Nobody on Council had a Good Word to Say about Israel BOTTLED water is…

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You can’t fight Israeli apartheid & dispossession with faint hearts and ‘balance’

Zionism is the Issue: Building a Strong Pro-Palestine Movement In the U.S. Lana Habash and Noah Cohen “…[We are losing the media war,”] said Colonel Daniel Reisner, head of the international law branch of the IDF Legal Division, in an interview in the Fall 2002 Harvard Israel Review. “…It takes a long time to explain…

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“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,”

By Meron Rappaport in Haaretz  “What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.  Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800…

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Evidence of Israeli Indiscriminate Killing of Civilians in Lebanon

Full story in Haaretz by Nir Hasson & Meron Rapoport, 21/11/2006 (Over a month later, the BBC was still not reporting  most of this material from the Israeli press.) Israeli Army “admitted targeting populated areas with cluster munitions…only against military targets and after taking steps to warn the civilian population.” “an investigating officer, Brigadier General Michel…

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