Wikileaks

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton watches as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas shake hands, Washington, September 2, 2010. (Moshe Milner/GPO)

What Clinton gets so wrong about Israel-Palestine

The façade of a peace process is an obstacle to achieving a just peace, for which there can be no alternative. Hillary Clinton believes that the façade of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is preferable to no peace process at all, we learned this week from the presidential candidate’s private emails, hacked by Russia and published…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 16, 2016

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The Israeli government’s official ‘lawfare’ contractor

The Israeli ‘hasbara’ group that once sued Jimmy Carter and Twitter, represents Israeli soldiers accused of excessive force and war crimes and files lawsuits at the behest of the Israeli government, calls itself a ‘human rights organization.’ (Translated from Hebrew by Jordan Michaeli) You know Israel’s policy – since no one believes a word it…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 19, 2013

Julian Assange and ‘The Women’s Issue’

By Leehee Rothschild Rare are the cases in which an article and the advertisement accompanying it fit together. But in the case of a recent op-ed in The New York Times by Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, “Wikileaks and Free Speech,” the two make a perfect match. Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been wanted…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2012

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Soldier who shot unarmed protester to death: I didn’t see him

The IDF has launched an investigation into the circumstances which led to the death of Mustafa Tamimi,28, of Nabi Saleh during a demonstration against the takeover of his village’s lands by the nearby settlement of Halamish, in the West Bank. Haaretz reports: Figures in the army’s Central Command said the soldier claimed he “didn’t see”…

By Noam Sheizaf December 12, 2011

IDF Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad: “We don’t do Gandhi very well”

In a new wikileaks cable, Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Israel Ministry of Defense, Maj. General (reserves) Amos Gilad, told American government officials, ‘we don’t do Gandhi very well’ in reference to unarmed demonstrations taking place throughout the West Bank and specifically in Nabi Saleh. The cable confirms that the Israeli army has, in recent months, decided to…

By Joseph Dana September 3, 2011

New Wikileaks cable shows Israel’s West Bank blockade

In a 2009 cable, American diplomats complain that Israel is not issuing work visas for Palestinian companies’ foreign employees While most people who follow the news from Israel and the Palestinian territories know well enough that Israel blocks travel to and from Gaza, it is always surprising how few are aware that all exists and…

By Noam Sheizaf August 27, 2011

Israeli Wikileaks: Journalists demand not to try Haaretz reporter

Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has summoned Haaretz journalist Uri Blau to a formal hearing – the last procedural step before prosecuting Blau in a criminal court. The 7th eye website reports [Hebrew] that the hearing will take place towards the end of the month. Last March, The Tel Aviv Office for the General Prosecution…

By Noam Sheizaf May 3, 2011

Watch: Joseph Dana discusses Wikileaks, new media & activism

Watch 972’s Joseph Dana in an interview for GRITtv “There’s a lot of Palestinian Gandhis,” says writer and filmmaker Joseph Dana. But up until recently, it was nearly impossible for everyday people around the world to hear their stories. That’s changing with social media, he points out, and with this week’s release of more diplomatic…

By +972 Magazine December 2, 2010

The Light-Bringers: on Anat Kamm, Bradley Manning and Wikileaks

Wikileaks, Anat Kamm and Bradley Manning expose the corrupting power of secrecy. The whistleblowing site Wikileaks published during the weekend some 392,000 classified military documents, which it received, in all likelihood, from a US army soldier, Bradley Manning, who is already on trial. The documents, published in tandem with the New York Times, the Guardian…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 24, 2010