Following the revelation of the existence of a detention facility known as Camp 1391 in 2003, Israel said three years later that it no longer held prisoners in secret outside of international legal norms. The Zygier case suggests the Israeli government has not stuck to that promise.

The settlers council revealed that the number of Israeli settlers rose by 50,000 – from 312,000 to 360,000 – in Benyamin Netanyahu‘s four years in government. The growth rate of the Israeli population is three times the average in Israel, which stands at 1.4%.

Die Aborigines wurden von den britischen Siedlern fast ausgelöscht, bis 1992 galt offiziell, dass Australien bis zur Ankunft der Briten „Niemandsland“ war. Nun hat das Parlament die Ureinwohner des Kontinents offiziell als „erste Australier“ anerkannt

„Clandestine arrests and detentions are unacceptable and inconceivable in a democratic state. They pose a tangible threat to the rule of law and undermine the public‘s confidence in the legal system,“ MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) wrote in a letter sent to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein back in 2010.

The government is desperate to push the measure through. It is being pressed hard by MI5, MI6 and the CIA. For the bill is designed to prevent any sensitive or embarrassing information in their hands being exposed in open court ever again.

The judge ruled that it was „not necessary in the interests of justice to conduct relevant hearings in private“ after two newspapers – the Guardian and the Financial Times – raised concerns about Prince Abdulaziz‘s privacy bid.

He said Prince Abdulaziz was a director of one of the companies involved in litigation under way in the Companies Court – which is part of the High Court – in London.

The resort to political justifications – among other reasons – for suppressing the disputed claims is revealed in a ruling delivered on Wednesday by Mr Justice Morgan. The judgment upholds, in principle, requests by the Guardian and Financial Times to be given documents detailing the disputed transactions involving Saudi interests in Beirut and Nairobi.

Greece‘s prime minister Antonis Samaras said on Monday that the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is of “startegic importance“ for the country.

Die Nebenwirkungen des portugiesischen Sparprogrammes sind fatal: Die Arbeitslosigkeit ist im vergangenen Quartal auf knapp 17 Prozent gestiegen. Dramatisch ist die Quote auch bei den Jugendlichen: 40 Prozent finden keinen Job.

It is still not clear whether Zygier was actively working for Mossad, or whether he simply acquired passports for the spy agency to use in its overseas operations.

Die Festnahme und der mysteriöse Tod eines Agenten in Israel sollten ein Staatsgeheimnis bleiben. Vergeblich versuchte die israelische Regierung, die Berichterstattung der Medien zu unterdrücken.

The mysterious death of an Australian prisoner in Israel has put the spotlight on a military-run censorship system that is finding it harder to black out secret information often only a mouse click away on the Internet.

Broadcast: 12/02/2013
Reporter: Trevor Bormann

An OECD study commissioned by the G-20 – Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) – finds that some multinationals use strategies that allow them to pay as little as 5% in corporate taxes when smaller businesses are paying up to 30%.

Die OECD hat für die G20 einen Bericht zum Zustand des internationalen Steuersystems angefertigt und kommt zu einem vernichtenden Urteil: „Große multinationale Unternehmen können ihre Steuerkosten substanziell reduzieren, weil die internationale Steuerarchitektur komplett veraltet ist“, sagte der OECD-Steuerexperte Pascal Saint Amans bei der Vorstellung des Berichts.

Die Finanzminister der G20 treffen sich Ende der Woche in Moskau. Deutschland hofft dabei auf ein Bekenntnis aller beteiligten Staaten zu freien Wechselkursen, die nicht politisch, sondern vom Markt bestimmt werden.

Wer und wo sind die Killer des “X”-Teams?

Fairfax‘s then-Middle East correspondent Jason Koutsoukis spoke with Zygier on the phone and asked him if he was cooperating with the Mossad. “‘Who the f*** are you?“ Zygier asked angrily in response. „What is this total bulls*** you are telling me?“

Kibbutz members say Ben Zygier was one of several IDF soldiers given a home at the kibbutz while serving, after leaving his family and native country to make aliyah.

Seit Mittwoch darf man auch in Israel über die Recherchen berichten, die der australische Fernsehsender ABC zu Wochenbeginn ausgestrahlt hatte.

Der türkische Journalist Aytunç Altındal spricht von Geheimkonten bei 17 verschiedenen Banken. Allein bei der deutschen Bank Hauck & Aufhäuser soll der Papst in der Vergangenheit 32 Millionen Dollar angesammelt haben. Auch von Geldwäsche ist die Rede.

The Meretz MK added, „We Knesset members are here to take care of the public interest – not to come between the public and the authorities and hide information, especially when this information is already published all over the world.“

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„In the meantime, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are awash with people forwarding the information, sharing links to foreign websites, expressing opinions – and utterly ignoring those who are making pathetic attempts to turn back the clock to a time before WikiLeaks, and before bloggers who don‘t give two hoots about the censor.“