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B'Tselem's footage shows a prisoner who has been blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back.
The man, who was protesting against Israel's separation barrier, made no attempt to escape, yet a gun was pointed in his direction and a shot fired.
B'Tselem claimed he was hit with a rubber bullet and suffered bruising.
But there is no evidence that the man, identified as Ashraf Abu Rahman, 27, was actually hit.

Sky's Middle East correspondent Dominic Waghorn said the bullet hit the ground in front of Abu Rahman and he was injured slightly in the toe.

The incident took place on July 7 in Nilin, a West Bank village where regular protests are held against the barrier by stone-throwing demonstrators, the human rights group said.

The Israeli army described the incident as serious and launched an investigation.
Speaking from Jerusalem, Waghorn added: "The point is, this is showing up what Palestinians say happens all the time on the West Bank, them being abused either by Israeli settlers or the soldiers themselves."

lucabrasi:
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do you realise that american funding on just israel accounts for about one thirds of their whole foreign aid?

Part of the swap included Israel handing over the remains of some 199 fighters.

Queenisha:
maybe not more but I suspect the real statistics of cheating both ways are higher than what we know since it's usually done nicodemously

Black as I am, Pro African as I am, he was right. I have never met a honest Nigerian. Sorry but its true. Not even once and I have met many!!!

debosky:
Finally you bring up what could be a valid point - cost benefit analysis. Has this been done? that is the question to be asked, not simply assuming that the aim of this jet is to feather someone's personal nest. The jet may be needed, but is spending the money on a jet the best way to go about it? Now that is a cogent question requiring an answer.

doyin13:
@Jakumo

Strange as it may be, the cover was orchestrated by the New Yorker in favour of Obama and not particularly against him.

The New Yorker I think is a left wing journal after all. . . . .

KarmaMod:
How many gallons of jizz?  

t's the newest way to pay for the oldest profession.
A man has admitted exchanging a $100 gas card for sex with a hooker.
Court records uncovered by The Smoking Gun Web site show Kenneth Nowak was busted after an undercover cop caught him having sex with the call girl last Friday at a Days Inn in Fort Wright, Ky.
The 50-year-old Indiana man told cops he paid for the action with a card good for gas at Speedway gas stations, along with other unspecified "gifts."
"A local prosecutor noted that it was sad to see someone selling their body for gas," the Web site reported.
Angela Eversole, 34, who sold her body for just 25 gallons of juice, was hit with a prostitution rap and also charged with doing business without an occupational license. Nowak was charged with promoting prostitution.

Consumer prices have more than doubled every month this year, in some cases doubling every week. A conservative estimate provided by Robertson Economic Information Services, a southern African consultancy, says that prices are now 3 billionfold greater than seven years ago--that is right: billion. The exchange rate is currently an astronomical 90 billion Zimbabwe dollars to one U.S. dollar. Furthermore, three zeros were removed from the currency a few years ago when new limited-time bank notes were issued, so the inflation is actually even worse.

When I first went to Zimbabwe back in 1996, US$1 would buy you just Z$8--a depreciation of exchange rate of perhaps 10 billionfold over twelve years. A decade ago, Z$500,000 would have bought you a house; today, it cannot buy you anything.


In Zimbabwe today, Z$50 billion will buy about two loaves of bread.


Incredibly, the situation on the ground is even worse than any available data can reflect. Inflation numbers are almost meaningless, with some reports showing that prices triple now on a daily basis, and for some food items, prices double hourly. Hyperinflation is now at or beyond the status of the post-World War I Weimar Republic and post-World War II Hungary, the worst recorded inflations in history.

Joshua Kipuru (not his real name because he is concerned about reprisals for criticizing the government) told me that he gave up trying to get cash at his bank in Harare last Wednesday because the lines were too long and moved too slowly. In the end, he bought groceries with his debit card, which remarkably still works. The card, he explained, maxes out at just under Z$10 billion. So he had to run it seventy-four times because his food bill was nearly Z$730 billion. Buying anything is a "bizarre experience," says Lucy Chimtengwende from Bulawayo, who spent US$12 on lunch yesterday, with the bill in local currency being an astonishing Z$1.1 trillion. The menu had no prices on it; prices are quoted and constantly changing. And if you want to pay by check, good luck. Most proprietors do not accept them, and those that do charge double the cash price because of the time it takes them to receive payment.

KarmaMod:
Seriously though for doctors that are in debt I don't get it. You' think the FIRST thing they'd do when they start making decent money is pay off their obnoxious student loans.

RedHotChic:
Naaaa, I can afford those things but am very tomboyish and natural, so no artificial thing for me. Even my hair is natural afro(although i've been doing dreads for over a year now). I want a man that has a sense of commitment and thinks with his head and not his 3rd leg.

Queenisha:
and they say women ain't smart

RedHotChic:
Can you live above debts  in America? How especially if you are not a Nigerian politician?

Queenisha:
Are you telling me
You know I'm older than most of you here
My eyes have seen things.

I have seen a doctor and his wife who literally live from hand to mouth despite the fat salaries.
Most people are deep in debt up to their eye balls and living pay check to pay check just because they want to look rich.
who are they deceiving?
I don't ride a benz or Jag and at the same time I don't spend sleepless nights wondering how to pay for them monthly.

Uche2nna:
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Red who? Hardly know of a handle that has the prefix Red.