Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words, at least. In the case of this image by Reuters’ Ammar Awad, this one may be worth 10,000 or more. It’s also instructive that the NY Times headline for the slideshow presentation of Land Day images that includes this one was: Protesters Scuffle With Forces. I don’t see […]
Border Police Officer Who Pulled Trigger Saying ‘Death to Arabs’ Sentenced
In a rare instance of accountability, an Israeli judge sentenced Shani Sivilya, an Israeli Border Policewoman to three months in prison for taunting and abusing a Palestinian child she’d arrested. The abuse included a mock execution in which fired her gun at the blindfolded victim and shouted “death to Arabs.”. In truth, this qualifies as […]
Israel Ordered to Pay $400,000 to Aramin Family for Girl’s Murder
How much is a ten year-old Palestinian girl worth? If you’re the Israeli government or police, nothing. If you’re Bassam Aramin, her father, her worth is beyond measure. If you’re an Israeli court, you might, Solomon-like, split the baby and the difference, as the Jerusalem District Court did when it awarded Aramin over $400,000 over […]
Israeli Border Policewoman as Stone-Cold Killer
A new expose of Israeli police brutality and torture exploded yesterday with reports that a member of a special Border Police unit, Shani Sivilia, had been accused of torturing a Palestinian boy in March 2010, by cocking and pretending to fire her pistol into his head at close range, all in response the ‘deadly’ act […]
