Here follow the September 29, 2007 press picks published recently - from different sources and posted by TOI-staff on Occupation Magazine.(We do the updating on Saturdays, but OM is updated daily, each day of the week by a different editor.) 

29/09/2007

 
 We urge you: Oppose Israel’s sanctions against people of Gaza!
JfJPfP - Open letter to UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, signed by 317 British Jews and published as a full page advert in Times (Sep. 28). 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/Times_ad.pdf

 Somebody has to start shouting
Adam Keller - Gush Shalom - A major artery through which thousands of cars speed at all hours, and us waving signs and flags and banners and chanting in unison at the top of our voices: "Blockade - NO! Ceasefire - YES!" - "No Tanks and No Qassams - Ceasefire Now!" - "End the Bloodshed - Ceasefire Now!" - "The Blockade on Gaza is a War Crime!" - "Hamas Is a Partner for a Ceasefire!" - "I Am a Gazan, Too!" 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22557
 
 Life behind the wire
Chris Doyle - The Guardian - Imagine if, after an IRA bombing, a British prime minister declared Catholic areas in Northern Ireland to be hostile territory, and threatened to reduce or cut off goods, water, fuel and electricity supplies. It sounds implausible but the one and a half million residents of the Gaza Strip, an area the size of the Isle of Wight, may soon face this scenario. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22567

 Putting out the light
Michael Handelzalts - Haaretz - The Palestinians voted Hamas in, as they were fed up with the Palestinian Authority`s promises, which were apparently delivered only to PA officials` and functionaries` bank accounts. But apart from that, most Palestinians are folks just like us. When they are pricked, they bleed; when they are tickled (which rarely happens), they laugh; when they are poisoned, they die; and when they are wronged, they take revenge. But I don`t have the faintest idea what they`ll do if their electricity is cut off.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22565

 Hebron: fence erected to keep settlers out
ISM Hebron - In many parts of the West Bank, a struggle is constantly waged in opposition to fences and walls, erected by the army in order to separate Palestinians from their land and in effect hand it over to settlers. But in Hebron`s embattled Tel Rumeida area, a fence is erected for an opposite purpose - to keep settlers out of a threatened Palestinian house and provide Issa`s family with a slightly greater measure of daily life security.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22566

 Anti-wall Protest: army violence in Bil`in, relative restraint in Walaja
Ghassan Bannoura/John Smith - IMEMC - Bil`in villagers, not satisfied with a relatively favorable Supreme Court verdict which so far found no implementation, continue to demonstrate - and continue to be attacked by the army. In contrast, the army did not assault demonstrators at al-Wallaja, just south of Jerusalem. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22562

 The JNF - pre-state fossile owning 11.5% of all the land in Israel
Dan Izenberg - Jerusalem Post - Like the petition filed in 1995 by Israeli Arab Adel Ka`adan to buy land and live in the Jewish Agency-developed community of Katzir, three High Court petitions heard earlier this week - protesting the sale of Jewish National Fund (JNF) land to Jews only - penetrates to the very heart of the Zionist movement, and arouses tensions between it and the overall responsibilities of statehood. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22559

 British academics drop planned boycott of Israel
Tamara Traubman/Barak Ravid/Shlomo Shamir - Haaretz - (...) the proposed boycott would be illegal and could not be implemented [the opposite it seems of the boycott against the poor people of Gaza - ed.]
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22563

 A convenient partner
Dov Weisglass - Yediot Aharonot - This article by Ariel Sharon’s senior adviser is very cynical and does not represent OM views, but summarizes the way of thinking of the so-called "pragmatic" establishment [ed.]
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22558
 
 So What About Iran?
Uri Avnery - Israel will start by bombing an Iranian nuclear installation, Iran will respond by launching missiles at Israel, and this will serve as a pretext for an American attack on Iran. Far-fetched? Not really. It is rather like what happened in 1956.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22561

...and from an earlier day, last but not least:

 Public figures urge Olmert to talk to Hamas
Ahead of November peace conference, Israeli intellectuals sign petition calling for negotiations with Hamas in an attempt to reach a ceasefire (signed by AB Yehoshua, Amoz Oz, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Yehudit Katzir, Eli Amir, Yeshua Sobol, Esti G Chaim, Professor Alice Shalvi and Dorit Rabinyan, Savion Librecht).
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22480