Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

Policemen Convicted of Assaulting Detained Jewish Protester (6/2/2007 Israeljustice.com)
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“‘Because of this [the trial] I was fired.’ [Police Officer] Naim said. ‘Do I owe you something,’ [Judge] Efrati responded. ‘I was a [police] investigations officer for 15 years and I was at demonstrations.’”
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Two police officers have been convicted […]

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Six Minutes of Footage Missing In Video on Amona
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Police Suspected of Fabricating Evidence in Attack on Jews
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Six minutes of footage are missing in a video on a briefing of police officers that was belatedly turned over to the Israel Policy Center, the center’s director Yitzhak Klein said. “It appeared […]

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3 Complaints Against Police for Amona Brutality
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Chaim Cohen, representing a Yesha human rights organization, on Thursday submitted three complaints to Justice Minister Police Investigations Unit officials pertaining to brutality by police during the Amona expulsion.
Three youths allege police beat them without provocation or cause, with one stating he […]

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Policeman Indicted for Trampling Amona Protestor

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A mounted policeman was indicted in a Jerusalem court today for having purposely trampled a demonstrator at Amona two months ago.
Etzion himself says that he continued to feel pain for a full month after the incident. He told Arutz-7 that he is convinced that the attack was purposeful.
The […]

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Knesset Commission on Amona Releases Interim Report
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The Knesset commission investigating the February events at Amona released its preliminary findings Tuesday. The report blames the political echelon and the police for the excessive violence used.
Planning of Amona Evacuation Seriously Flawed, Panel to Say
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The planning of the Amona […]

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The Demonization of the Fringe

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In his book Perfidy, while retelling the story of the trial of Dr. Rudolf Kastner in 1955, Ben Hecht records the testimony of Joel Brand, who was tasked with saving literally millions of Hungarian Jews from the ovens of the Holocaust. Amongst the tragedies that this testimony […]

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Halutz Contradicts Ezra at Amona Investigation
Contradiction Between Testimonies of Ezra and Halutz

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“Chief of General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, appeared before the Amona investigative committee on Wednesday. ‘In no way did I understand that the Amona evacuation was similar to the Gaza evacuation,’ he said.”
“‘The Gaza evacuation was an operation conducted against legal […]

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Shteinitz Calls on Mazuz to Examine Suspicious Police Behavior

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“The chairman of the Knesset committee tasked to examine the events during the eviction of nine families in Amona, MK Yuval Shteinitz, has called on Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to examine actions by police that raise suspicions of premeditated violations. Specifically, MK Shteinitz noted […]

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AG Defends Decision to Evacuate Amona

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“Attorney General Menahem Mazuz told the special parliamentary investigative committee into the violent events at Amona on Tuesday that settler offers of a compromise that were presented to him prior to the Amona evacuation were untenable, not to the point, and unfeasible.”
“Mazuz added that the Amona structures had […]

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Amona Witness: Police Threw Stones at Roofs
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“Anat Roth, a researcher from the Israeli Institute for Democracy, has given the first testimony given before the committee investigating police violence during the recent evacuation of Amona. Ms. Roth came to Amona at that time to compile material for a doctoral assignment. She previously worked […]

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