Israel: The battle for the territories

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From The Economist; which has surprisingly interesting articles about a number of different topics.

Technology has helped. Peace Now is using satellite photos to track the growth of settlements and to show where building is going on without permits or in defiance of court orders to stop. B’Tselem, an Israeli human-rights organisation, has given small video cameras to Palestinians who suffer frequent attacks from extremist settlers. Though soldiers and police in the West Bank frequently take the settlers’ side in such cases, the cameras give prosecutors usable evidence. This week police nabbed two settlers who were filmed beating a Palestinian tied to an electricity pole. Another two were arrested last month after a group of men was caught on camera clubbing a family of shepherds (a video which was posted on YouTube).

The video is a little rough and thankfully you don’t see much of the beating. I was surprised that so few people had watched it so far; only 4,175 when I looked. It is posted by B’Tselem, an Isreali human rights organisation.

Some of the comments under the post are also rather shocking, it is surprising that people would write things like that in a public manner.

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