Imad Duikat was the sixth Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli troops during recent protests against the settler outpost of Evyatar, and the 40th to be killed in the West Bank since May.
A recent article by AP bureau chief Josef Federman on Israeli difficulties, to which we’ve added some essential facts, images, and videos that the story omitted….
The common evangelical Christian cry to “support Israel no matter what” has zero basis in Scripture – in fact, that is the opposite of what the Bible says.
Imad Dweikat had been shot with ‘a live bullet to the chest’ in Beita, south of Nablus, the health ministry says. He’s the 8th Palestinian killed by the IDF in a little over a month
A respected journalist, apparently misinformed about history and current events in Israel, has unfortunately shared with her readers several inaccuracies about Israel and the people of Palestine. Her misunderstandings are not uncommon. If Americans Knew offers corrections.
An investigative report by an Israeli newspaper reveals that hundreds of Gazans, including families of suspected political agitators, and young men not suspected of anything, were jailed in Israeli detention centers in 1971 for almost a year.
In the midst of an Israeli killing spree in which Israeli soldiers shot dead four unarmed Palestinians, including two minors, the House of Representatives voted to give Israel billions of dollars. Only 3 members opposed the funding…
Human Rights Watch investigated several Israeli attacks that resulted in particularly high numbers of civilian casualties – with no evident military target – and determined that the incidents may have been war crimes. Other Israeli attacks during the conflict were also likely unlawful.
“We reject Israel’s apartheid system of laws and legal procedures,” the United Church of Christ (UCC) stated at its general synod, in a resolution approved by 83 percent of members despite an appeal by the American Jewish Committee. (The term ‘apartheid’ for the Israeli system has been used by numerous experts, including South African apartheid leader Bishop Desmond Tutu, a South African report on Israel, and scholars on the region.)
The Olympics opening ceremony featured a moving commemoration for Israeli athletes who tragically and needlessly died half a century ago (when the Israeli prime minister refused a prisoner exchange), but failed to highlight a tragedy going on now that the world could stop: the desperate plight of Palestinian athletes who have been shot, maimed, & sometimes killed by Israeli forces… The ceremony also ignored the hundreds of men, women, and children killed by Israeli forces in the lead up to the tragic 1972 event, and the hundreds more killed by Israeli forces the following day…