Crowd control measures have killed 10 protesters since 2005. Meet 'the skunk,' the tear gas canister and the rubber-coated bullet - just some of the measures the IDF uses against civilian Palestinian protesters in the West Bank.  At least ten Palestinians have been killed by crowd control measures used by the IDF since 2005; 46 more were shot to death using live ammunition. These numbers, published by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, refer only to civilian protesters and not to people killed during IDF military operations or to Palestinians who were shot to death at checkpoints or near security fences.…

For the first time in many years, an Israeli activist chose to put into practice the notion promoted by Henry David Thoreau: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison..." Truth be told: We all should have acted like 'A'. Every Friday, across the West Bank, Israelis and Palestinians demonstrate together. They stand together opposite the same soldiers, chant the same slogans, give the same speeches,  run away from the same clouds of tear gas and the same spray from the disgusting "skunk" machines, and get arrested for the same…

UPDATE: An Israeli woman arrested during Friday's demonstration in Nabi Saleh, who refused to sign an order forbidding her from entering Nabi Saleh for two weeks as a condition of her release, has today been released without conditions. **** Two dozen Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were arrested at a protest marking one week since the killing of Mustafa Tamimi; IDF fires tear gas, "skunk spray" on protesters with start of demonstration.  Of the two dozen people who were arrested at Friday's weekly demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, most - the Israelis and internationals - were…