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The Israeli state prosecutor decided against indicting a Shin Bet security service officer suspected of committing acts of violence against Palestinians, despite testimony by fellow operatives and an army commander as well as the agent’s own admission that he employed unnecessary violence.
The case was closed with the approval of former State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan. One of the reasons was that investigators concluded he had acted due to “excessive motivation.” In addition, Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman had dismissed him.
Haaretz has learned that solid evidence that pointed to unjustified violence had been collected against the accused, including that he destroyed furniture in the home of a Palestinian family and smashing the family car s sunroof. Similar allegations against him had been raised in at least one other case.
In order to expand settlement, Israelis fence off tract of Palestinian land southwest of Bethlehem
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The Time of No Change
LITERARY
The family group stood in the jungle clearing. The rosy dawn was just beginning to filter through the trees. The grandfather and grandmother, their numerous grown children, the wives and husbands and grandchildren old enough to walk with their parents deep into the jungle. They were accompanied by guardian hounds. They stood before a boulder of amazing proportions, half-buried in the clearing. No large trees grew around it, and the ancients who were no longer had told the grandparents the oldest people told that one night, when the ancestors had yet to be born many many generations ago, fire roared in the sky, roared into the forest announced by deafening thunderclaps and a blaze of lightning that lit up the world. The blaze of light swallowed the night and the fire destroyed almost all of the creation sky so that it seemed day had suddenly returned, and a great fire had burned all the growth a hundred strides all around the rock.