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<blockquote><p><strong>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><strong>Art.20 (1) &#8220;Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.&#8221;</strong></span></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Leaked documents highlight efforts by army to use use force against peaceful protesters in the West Bank.</strong></p>
<p>04 Sep 2011 16:15 | Al Jazeera<br />
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<strong>The Israeli army chief is quoted as threatening to be &#8216;more assertive&#8217; in dealing with West Bank demonstrations [EPA]</strong></p>
<p>US government officials have been well aware of Israel&#8217;s harsh methods of dealing with peaceful protests in the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank for quite some time, according to a recently leaked WikiLeaks diplomatic cable.</p>
<p>A cable from the embassy in Tel Aviv from February 16, 2010, titled &#8220;IDF plans harsher methods with West Bank demonstrations&#8221;, reveals a premeditated effort by the Israeli army to use force against peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank.</p>
<p>In the cable, the US ambassador to Israel noted that government officials considered any rally as grounds for use of military force.</p>
<p>In a meeting held between US officials and Avi Mizrachi, head of Israel&#8217;s central command, the latter warned  the Israeli army will be more assertive in how it deals with West Bank demonstrations and will start sending trucks &#8220;with &#8216;dirty water&#8217; to break up protests, even if they are not violent&#8221;.</p>
<p>As the US cable pointed out, “dirty water is a reference to the IDF&#8217;s chemically treated water that duplicates the effects of skunk spray&#8221;.</p>
<p>Months before this cable was written, Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jacky Rowland was in the cross hairs of such an attack when covering a weekly protest in the West Bank.</p>
<p>In the document Amos Gilad, Israel&#8217;s director of policy and political-military affairs, is quoted as saying: &#8220;We don&#8217;t do Gandhi very well.&#8221;</p>
<p>Speaking in the context of the WikiLeaks revelations, Al Jazeera&#8217;s Clayton Swisher said: &#8220;Just three weeks ago a bill was raised in the US congress by Senator Patrick Leahy to cut funding of Israeli military units engaged in documented human-rights abuses.</p>
<p>&#8220;Clearly, this would fit the bill, although anyone knowledgeable about American politics would tell you it stands very little chance of surviving a vote that would make it become a law.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2011/09/201194151030677316.html">Source</a></p>
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