Building Economic Independence (Conference at Bil`in,
April 18-19 2007)
Sam Bahour - epalestine - "It is not that
I’m not proud that, under odds most communities would have buckled under, we
have built productive companies, a stock market, a banking industry, an ICT
industry, an olive oil industry, a furniture industry, and a pharmaceutical
industry, among others. These are all important but they are all trappings of a
status quo that is taking us to a level of despair, unknown to our struggle. "
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19510
Human rights activist says threatened by IDF
Ali
Waked-YNet News -"Sideh said he believed the raid was aimed at scaring and
frightening him so that he would stop bothering the IDF. As part of his job at
the Rabbis for Human Rights organization, he calls the IDF`s District
Coordination Offices on a daily basis in order to warn of closed checkpoints,
inappropriate conduct and violence exercised by soldiers and settlers."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19509
Mothers of prisoners call for their release and condemn
Johnston kidnapping
Electronic Intifada - Open letter - "As we
reject the illegal detention and inhumane treatment of prisoners, we reject the
claim by any group that they may commit criminal and un-national acts in the
name of the Palestinian and Arab prisoners. The kidnapping of anybody, including
BBC journalist Alan Johnston, is against the rights of the prisoners, it is
against the love and the suffering of their mothers, it is against the whole of
the Palestinian people."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19480
Turning the other cheek near Bethlehem
Kobi Snitz
- ISM - Even as they were repeatedly kicked and punched by Occupation Forces,
none of the demonstrators raised a hand to harm their attackers. Instead, as
could have been seen in several press photographs, Abu Maria raised his right
hand defiantly to signal a V as he was being beaten.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19418
Occupation
reality
Hours of attack on Beit Fourik leaves several injured and a
home demolished
Amin Abu Wardeh - PNN - (...) dozens of military
vehicles entering on Friday night. Young people from Beit Fourik began throwing
stones and Israeli soldiers opened fire. Several injuries were incurred among
residents, including 15 year old Mohammad Iyad Hanni. (...) Israeli forces
surrounded the home of Fadi Rajeh Hanni. Bulldozers plowed through the house,
destroying it completely. The Israeli claim is that the military was fired upon
from the house.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19533
Mothers and wives of political prisoners imprisoned to
pressure confessions
Mustafa Sabre - PNN - Kawthar Nofal told PNN
that Israeli intelligence has taken to arresting the mothers and wives of
Palestinian political prisoners in order to extract confessions. Nofal, known as
Umm Said for her eldest son, said that the idea is to threaten the prisoners by
harming their loved ones. “They arrested me from inside my house after the
arrest of others in my family, and immediately took me to Jalama Prison so that
my captive son, Said, could see that they had me.”
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19536
Requiem in Ramallah
Noam Ben Ze`ev - Ha`aretz -
Confined to their city, in poverty that in some parts includes hunger, afraid to
leave their homes at night and subject to both invasions by the Israel Defense
Forces and threats from the local hooligans, to these residents, Mozart was a
momentary comfort.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19526
IDF probing whether Hebron street `intentionally`
closed
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - "The closure has made life difficult
for Palestinian residents of Hebron, including the elderly, who have to take
long detours through neighboring yards and residences."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19459
Twilight Zone / Village of the Martyrs
Gideon
Levy - Haaretz - "As the 15-year-old ran for his life, a sniper`s bullet caught
him in the neck and he bled slowly to death. The soldiers even shot at his
rescuers. The IDF: `The person killed was an armed terrorist`"
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19445
Commentary
‘Only Free Men Can Negotiate’
Dr. Daud
Abduallah - Palestine Chronicle - The recent visit by Palestinian Minister of
Finance Salam Fayad to the EU was a pitiful demonstration of how much rich
countries are prepared to use their economic power to browbeat poor nations into
political subservience. While the European ministers lined up to pay tribute to
the integrity of the Palestinian minister and their care for the Palestinian
people they bluntly refused to lift the sanctions of death. The message to Fayad
was stark. Not until the Palestinian Authority (PA) meets our political demands
there would be any significant economic assistance.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19531
From radical jihad to the politics of
compromise
Shlomo Ben-Ami - Haaretz - Hamas, like Israel, is not
ready for the compromises entailed by a final status accord. But a long-term
interim agreement is possible only with it, and not with the PLO. Hamas`
transition to parliamentary politics is part of a process many movements from
the mainstream of fundamentalist Islam are undergoing today, as they seek to
disassociate themselves from global jihad founded by Al-Qaida, and instead seek
to integrate themselves in their country`s political fabric.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19529
Mirror image: Spying charges against AIPAC and Azmi
Bishara
Richard Silverstein - Tikun Olam blog - Foxman says a
"prosecution shrouded in secrecy" fuels conspiracy theories against AIPAC and
American Jews. What about the secret Bishara charges and the effect they have on
Israeli Jews` views of Israeli Arabs? (...) Do you think ol` Abe would
understand the irony? And would he be willing to extend to Azmi Bishara the same
protections and consideration he`d like extended to the AIPAC suspects?? You
already know the answer to that one.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19537
Gaza is not Bagdad – Yet
Reuven Kaminer - "There
is, therefore, reason for serious concern over the persistent reports of plans
by the Bush government to train and arm special units of a "Presidential Guard."
The direct U.S. military support and "advice" to Abu Mazen are part of the US
effort to maintain exclusive control over the diplomatic activity in the region.
"
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19476
The Holocaust as political asset
Amira Hass -
Haaretz - "Turning the Holocaust into an asset allows Israel to present all the
methods of the Palestinian struggle (even the unarmed ones) as another link in
the anti-Semitic chain whose culmination is Auschwitz. Israel provides itself
with the license to come up with more kinds of fences, walls and military guard
towers around Palestinian enclaves. "
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19481
Israel`s Strategic Threat
Neve Gordon - The
Nation - "the Israeli Security Agency replied that it "would foil the activity
of anyone seeking to harm Israel`s Jewish or democratic character, even if that
activity was carried out by legal means." Diskin`s words are telling. He admits
not only that anyone who strives to alter the Jewish character of the state is
considered an enemy and will be treated as such but that the secret service has
no respect for democratic practices and procedures.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19484
At last, peace in the Middle East
Tony Klug -
IPCRI - "...the principal parties looked deep into the abyss and stared the
point of no return in the face and, with great good sense, they took
fright."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19466
We like our Arabs to be traitors
Bradley Burston
-- Haaretz -- "“Bishara, however, is not our real problem. We are our problem.
There is something deep down in many of us, which causes us to takes a quiet
satisfaction in the notion that if push came to shove, the Arab citizens of
Israel would prove themselves disloyal”
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19431
