Forty bad
years...
Email updates June 9, 2007
The Other Israel in cooperation with
Occupation
Magazine
It is now hours before the major Tel-Aviv
"Kibush40" demonstration - in which all peace groups participate - the
culmination of a wild week marking 40 years of occupation. Much of the
frentic protests remain ignored by the mainstream media. Our own report for
The Other Israel will be sent to you with next week's billboard.
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Here are
the headlines
posted today
by TOI's
editors at www.kibush.co.il
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09/06/2007
On the West Bank: Muslim graveyard
vandalized by followers of biblical war criminal
Efrat Weiss
- Ynet - The worshippers arrived at the cemetery escorted by soldiers, broke
tombstones, and wrote things on them such as “Death to Arabs”. Rabbi Arik
Asherman, head of Rabbis for Human Rights, denounced the incident. “As rabbis,
we protest this desecration and are reminded of our pain when such acts are
committed against us.” According to an official IDF response, the entry of
Jewish worshippers into the cemetery was authorized in order to allow them to
visit the Yeshua Ben Nun tomb nearby. [EDITOR`S COMMENT: Yeshua Ben Nun is
remembered as the perpetrator of genocide on the Canaanites in early Biblical
times...]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20472
Hebrew University appoints
former Shin Bet chief as "vice president of external
relations"
Tamara Traubmann - Haaretz - Twenty-seven faculty
members unsuccessfully tried to block the appointment, claiming that it runs
counter to the humanistic values the university should promote. [EDITOR`S
COMMENT: Could this be the beginning of the authorities` announced campaign
against the UK cultural boycott?]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20474
An Israeli
defeat in Sderot
Ze`ev Schiff - Haaretz -
"The changes in the battlefield and the nature of the fighting have led to a
situation in which Israel`s strategic (and not only geographic) depth is
insignificant. If what is happening in the Gaza Strip were to happen to Israel
in the West Bank, we would be back in a situation like that during the War of
Independence, and this could include the expulsion of terrorism supporters."
[EDITOR`S COMMENT: this chilling remark by a senior Haaretz military commentator
reflects that ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is considered an option by the
military echelon.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20458
A Palestinian day`s news: youth
killed, child injured, Judge on hunger strike & a lot of nonviolent
resistance
IMEMC News Summary - Army kills a youth, injured
another / Troops shot and injured a child / Detained Palestinian Judge continues
hunger strike / Israeli army attacks non-violent protestors at Bil’in & at
Umm Salamoneh & at Ertas village / "Stop the bleeding of Bethlehem" campaign
launched in Bethlehem, etc.
http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/IMEMC_news_summary.mht
MEPs Stand up for the immediate release of 45 Palestinian
MPs held in Israeli jail
Luisa Morgantini - Right before the
beginning of the debate with Mr. Solana on the situation on the Middle East, 45
MEPs stood up symbolically in the plenary, each representing one of the 45
Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council detained in the Israeli jails in
a clear violation of international legality.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20471
40 Bad Years
Uri Avnery - www.gush-shalom.org - International
opinion can express itself in a thousand different ways. It influences the
policy of governments and civil society. The attempts at boycott are only an
early symptom. (...) Every human being wants to be proud of his country. The
occupation deprives us of this.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20470
`If my name was not Begin there would have been no
sensation`
AFP (quoting Maariv) - In the photo, the
32-year-old Avinadav Begin and a young Palestinian are seen facing off with
Israeli soldiers in riot gear during a weekly demonstration against the barrier.
"I would like to blow up this barrier, it will not help bring peace between
Israel and Palestine" the young Begin reportedly wrote.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20469
Want to end the boycott? End the
occupation
Yosef Gorali - Maariv - We seem to have forgotten
that there is a condition to membership in this prestigious club, the Family of
Democratic Nations: Namely, to be truly a democracy. Does Israel fulfil this
condition? Are we truly a democracy?
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20464
Moving toward moment of
truth
Jerome Segal - Ynet - Rather than allowing the next
Palestinian elections to be about personalities, or corruption, or economics or
good government, Israel should strive to have them be about peace and the
two-state solution. (...) The strategy that is needed requires going in the
direction that Condoleezza Rice advocates, but going much further. (...) The
next Palestinian elections should be a referendum on an end-of-conflict offer
from Israel.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20463
Leaving the Zionist ghetto (Avraham
Burg interview)
Ari Shavit - Haaretz - [Burg:] "Herzl`s
Zionism can`t work anymore. To define the State of Israel as a Jewish state is
the key to its end. A Jewish state is explosive. It`s dynamite. We have to leave
Herzl behind and move to Ahad Ha`am."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20462
and a few selected from earlier
days:
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Ali Al-Azhari - Despite the despair among Palestinians
and in the Israeli `peace camp` of ever reaching a solution that will end
occupation, or perhaps because of that despair, I cannot, as a person and
as a Palestinian, remain indifferent to these voices, loud and clear,
coming from today’s South Africa. After all, who can tell us better than
the citizens of South Africa, black and white, about the efficacy of the
boycott in fighting tyrrany and oppression? And who hopes and yearns for
it to be applied more than the Palestinians?
Benny Gefen - Yisraeli - Let us hope that these boycotts
arouse our consciousness before they cause our economic
collapse.
Hank Silver - I am neither a self-hating nor
anti-Semitic Jew. I am proud of and know a good deal about my Jewish
religion and culture. The dream of a “Jewish homeland” was a driving force
in my family’s life. But I am unalterably opposed to, and for the past
several years have actively worked against Israel’s occupation, inhumane
treatment and killing of Palestinians.
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