The Israel-Palestine conflict is rich with many things, but nothing is so widespread in it as useless aphorisms. One of the most destructive of these is the oft-repeated mantra that “only direct negotiations between the two parties will resolve this conflict.” It was explicitly repeated today by leading Israeli hasbaranik, Mark Regev. I’ve touched before [...]
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Coteret: Interview with Michael Sfard, lawyer for slain Palestinian, Jawaher Abu Rahme
Posted in human rights, Separation Wall, Uncategorized, West Bank, tagged Bil'in, human rights, international law, Israel, Jawaher Abu Rahme, Middle east, Occupation, Palestine, West Bank on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Didi Remez of Coteret transcribed and translated the interview below from Israel’s IDF Radio. It is an interview of Michael Sfard, the prominent Israeli human rights lawyer who is representing the family of Jawaher Abu Rahme, who was killed on New Year’s Eve when the IDF flooded the town of Bil’in with tear gas during a [...]
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