"One of the girls is sitting on the bench beside me; an officer places his fist on her head and tells her 'If you dare speak even a single word, you shall be punished.' We are screaming and struggling as they take her away, but they shove us back to our seats, yelling 'Sit down you stinking Arabs,' and 'Don't you move, bitch.' We can hear the tasers at work in the other room." By Leehee Rothschild Israeli protesters arrested after a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers in Ramle on May 3 testified to suffering extreme police violence and…

Following an 1992 IDF military training debacle known as the Zeelim B scandal, an Israeli general named Uri Sagi, then serving as chief of AMAN (military intelligence), was interviewed for the domestic media. During the interview, the journalist noted that the IDF Spokesman gave a version of events that directly contradicted Sagi’s. The general, always noted for his bluntness, fired back immediately: “The IDF Spokesman lies, as usual." We had another demonstration of the Spokesman's economical use of the truth on Tuesday. Our brave gunmen took over the Irene, a ship carrying nine peace activists to Gaza, in yet another…