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Attempts to silence free speech have continued, and especially on matters concerning Israel and Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). In a particularly McCarthyist turn, a recently founded website called Campus Watch encourages students to report professors who criticize Israel. The emergent divestment movement which hopes to pressure Israel to end its military occupation has met with similarly unfair tactics. As students on campuses across the country have called for universities to withdraw U.S. subsidies and corporate investments supporting the highly repressive policies of the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories, these students have been called anti-Semites. This...
...immediate issue precipitating the split was the failure of the two sides to agree on Labor Party demands that Sharon amend his budget to reallocate funds away from the West Bank and Gaza settlements that form a central part of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians and instead spend the money on sectors of Israeli society left vulnerable by the country's shrinking economy. But there's nothing new about either the government's support for the settlements or the economic woes of millions of Israelis, which has Israeli analysts opining that ben-Eliezer is simply reaching...
...that kills children and women and soldiers.” But the policies of the Sharon government and the actions of the Israeli military wholly contradict these claims. The presence of settlements on Palestinian land forces the Israeli military to maintain a constant presence in the West Bank and Gaza. The creation and military protection of settlements serves absolutely no security function and only serves to place both Israelis and Palestinians at risk...
Gulay specified that the group was “protesting the violent military reoccupation in April and May of West Bank and Gaza...
...spring are over, and Israel's soldiers are now in or around every major Palestinian town. Tibon's Nahal Brigade has the toughest assignment in the West Bank, guarding this city where 80% of the intifadeh's suicide bombings have been planned. Fighting is more intense right now in Gaza - last week Israeli troops there killed 11 and wounded as many as 75 - but Tibon's task is more difficult and nuanced: he must track Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank without starving or killing innocents or getting his own men killed. In a place where two out of three...