Opportunities wasted
again?
Email updates February 17, 2007
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Whether Olmert and Bush will be remembered
as dangerous fools
with not even one achievement on their record
may be decided in the coming
week.
Today's
headlines:
Adminstrative detainees on hunger strike, protesting beatings and
solitary confinement
Najib Farag - PNN - Palestinian political
prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion are on hunger strike in protest of
ill-treatment. Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyer Hussein Sheikh says that
conditions in the detention camp are intolerable due to the actions of the
soldiers and administrators. There is also an acute shortage of blankets while
the food is inedible.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19346
Israeli forces face heavy resistance during invasion of Jenin
Refugee Camp
Ali Samoudi - PNN - Special Israeli forces overtook
several homes from which they launched ambushes against people on their “wanted”
list. Eyewitnesses report that Israeli forces faced heavy resistance in the
camp.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19344
Brandeis donors exact revenge for Carter visit
Larry
Cohler-Esses - Jewish Week - Major givers reportedly withholding funds from
school, sparking fierce free-speech debate on Massachusetts campus.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19349
Israeli
policy makes a Two-State Solution less likely
Carlton Cobb -
cnionline - The population of the Jewish-only settlements has more than doubled
since Yasser Arafat`s PLO recognized Israel, and thus endorsed the two-state
solution, in 1988. The wall, the military checkpoints, and Israeli "bypass
roads" criss-cross the West Bank and allow settlers easy travel, while carving
up the territory and preventing Palestinian freedom of movement [Jeff Halper
appearing with Naim Ateek in public hearing]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19348
Rice denies decision not to deal with unity
government
AFP/Y-net - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has
denied that the United States told Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas it would
refuse to deal with the future unity government. The top US diplomat rejected a
report that a US official gave Abbas a letter indicating Washington would not
recognize the new Palestinian government that includes the Islamist militant
group Hamas as it did not meet key conditions.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19343
Lesson in accountability
Meir Shalev - Ynet News -
Renowned writer plays `the king`s fool` to let Israelis see themselves in the
mirror. [ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19342
Raad
Salah reaffirms former statements
Roee Nahmias - Ynet News -
Arab-Israeli Islamic leader denies allegations of anti-Semitic incitement,
repeats statements against `occupying establishment` and says he is merely
`attempting to fulfill duty to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque`
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19341
Facing Mecca
Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom website - It is
not enough that Hamas recognize Israel in practice. Israel insists that its
"right to exist" must also be recognized. Political recognition does not
suffice, ideological recognition is required. By this logic, one could also
demand that Khaled Mashal join the Zionist movement.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19338
When did Olmert turn into George Bush?
Bradley
Burston - Haaretz - Together, Olmert and Bush have given new meaning to the
concept of non-partisanship: no one wants them. In either party. With critical
decisions to be made, with the lives of large numbers of soldiers and civilians
weighing in the balance, they do as little as possible, change as little as
possible, lead as little as possible.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19336
Final status in a new era
Jerome M. Segal - Haaretz
- The real choice facing Israeli policymakers today is whether to limit
negotiations to Phase 2 of the road map. This would mean postponing discussion
of Jerusalem and of the refugees, and testing the Palestinians with a state with
provisional boundaries. The alternative is to negotiate a comprehensive
end-of-conflict agreement with Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen], but subject it to
performance-based implementation, moving gradually toward full sovereignty and
final borders.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19335
