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...larger context in which Palestinian terrorism takes place—the context obscured by America’s single-minded focus on terrorism—is Israel’s 34-year military occupation of a civilian population. Since Israel’s conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, these territories have been under military occupation, governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention. That remains the legal status of these territories to this day. In spite of the transfer of partial control to the Palestinian Authority in the framework of the Oslo Accords, Israel remains...
...cited efficiency, domestic security and civilian safety and the ability of military tribunals to make use of classified information as advantages of the tribunals...
...said civilian deaths are rarely accidents...
...read article excerpts from the Boston Globe and the New York Times describing civilian casualties...
...gives a detailed breakdown of the location and staffing of the camp: Arabic was the working language; new arrivals were issued pistols and Kalashnikov automatic rifles and then asked to show their commitment to jihad by joining in the island's bloody Muslim-Christian clashes. Indonesia's most senior civilian intelligence officer, former army general Hendropriyono, at first acknowledged, then denied the existence of the so-called Camp Mujahidin...