Spotlight highlights Checkpoint events characteristic of the policy of the occupation: the systematic repudiation of basic human rights in the occupied territories. For Palestinians, reality is a complicated tangle of problems (survival in the everyday, education, health, making a living…) that cannot be solved because the Israeli occupation is conducted by enforcing countless inhuman bans. The Spotlights rely on collections of relevant reports from the field.
Spotlights
08.08.09
Many many days from now
I shall find the one whom I have been seeking.
I shall find the peace I have been seeking
And draw my full measure of peace.
(from In Praise of Peace of Mind by Daliah Rabikovitch)
This Spotlight aims to illuminate ‘the other', to make present - even if...
16.06.09
'This is not a state that has an army, it is an army that has a state'. [from the French] (Count Mirabeau, talking about 18th century Prussia).
In a free translation of the above quote, it is possible to say that in recent years the IDF enforces 'the law' in the territories of...
18.05.09
"The principle of holding a public trial is one of the fundamental principles on which a fair process is based. In the absence of a public trial there can be no public scrutiny, and without public scrutiny concerns about miscarriage of justice grow." that is how the basic assumption for...
01.05.09
Who shall rescue us from hunger?/ Who shall feed us plenty of bread?/ Who shall give us milk to drink?/ Whom should we thank, whom should we bless?/ Labor and work! H. N. Bialik
The economy of the West Bank resembles a ladder, but contrary to the usual image it seems that the rungs of...
14.03.09
Easing Measures for the Palestinians - Collapse of a City
With the closing of the gate between Dahiat el Barid ( Post-Office Suburb in Arabic) and the dismantling of Ar-Ram checkpoint, the former was cut off from the town of Ar-Ram. The Ministry of Defense was quick to announce:...
26.01.09
Time is a matter of awareness more than a product of the chronological order that exists in nature or in society.
(Dr. Amal Jamal, Head of the Faculty of Political Science, Tel Aviv University)
Time is a resource that Man has created, tamed, and mastered. People divide time into segments...
13.12.08
The sense of superiority that many Israeli soldiers have over the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories seems to them as God-given as Creation itself, and based on their being armed with weapons and arbitrary rules. They also seem to feel even morally superior to their subjects. The Occupation,...
