Here follow the July 8, 2008, press picks from what was published recently by different sources - posted by TOI-staff on Occupation Magazine. (We did the updating today but OM is updated daily, each day of the week by a different editor. For earlier articles use the powerfull search function & view the sections.) 

 Hamas maintaining the cease-fire
Haaretz Editorial - Hamas has kept its commitment thus far. Islamic Jihad broke it after Israel killed a few of its members in the West Bank; it then adopted the cease-fire again. The latest Qassam was reportedly fired by a Fatah-affiliated group, which apparently strived to undermine belief in Hamas` ability to control things on the ground. Alongside all this, Hamas` public effort to fully keep its commitment is evident. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27848

 Israeli army shuts down six Hamas-affiliated associations in Nablus
Ma`an - The Nablus Mall has 50 shops and offices, including the Al-Itiman company, which has a capital of 4 million Jordanian Dinars (5.64 million US dollars). Israel says this company funds Hamas and `encourages terrorism.` The head of the Mall administration Adli Yayish has been in Israeli custody for a year and a half, accused of being affiliated to Hamas. The Israeli army commander in Nablus issued an order that anyone who now enters the Nablus Mall will be imprisoned for five years ( sic! ). The order will come into effect on August 15. The Israeli army issued a statement transferring the ownership of the Nablus Mall to the Israeli authorities from August 18. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/edit_article_top.asp?art=27847

 More news of July 8, 2008 from the Palestinian media
IMEMC - Troops kidnap nine residents in the West Bank // Explosion kills two in southern Gaza Strip // Explosion hits the vehicle of Palestinian Attorney General in Ramallah // Detainee freed after spending more than one-third of his life in detention // PFLP leader: “We need to reconsider the truce deal; situation in Gaza did not change” // DFLP: “Ending international division and holding compressive talks, a national necessity” // Mashal hands Egyptian officials document which set basis for talks with Abbas // Paralyzed detainee facing slow death 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/080708.htm

 Don`t say we didn`t know
Amos Gvirtz - The settlers` attacks increase on Fridays and Saturdays. According to the El Ja`abaris, calling the police does not help. The police always listen to the settlers... 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27849

 Palestinian farmers demand access to fields
Tovah Lazaroff - Jerusalem Post - As a veteran farmer, Shareef Omar Khaled knows that the heat of a summer day is no time to be out in the fields working in his grape vines and cactus fields. But he has no choice, given that he is a Palestinian who lives in the village of Jayyus in Samaria, outside the security barrier, while his 175 dunams of agriculture fields remain on the Israeli side.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27845

 A binational reality
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - By coincidence, or perhaps not, both murderers involved in attacks in Jerusalem came from neighborhoods on the dividing line, where residents` lives have been changed completely by the fence, which was drawn short-sightedly and without sensibility. The wall enveloping Jerusalem, whose length totals 170 kilometers - more than the distance between that city and Haifa - has cut off most Jerusalem Arabs, primarily those living west of the fence, from their brethren in the West Bank.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27843

 Awarded abroad - humiliation and worse upon returning.
 Gaza journalist Mohammed Omer reports
Amy Goodman - Democracy Now - “You are a crazy man.” And I just kept quiet and listened to what he’s going to say. And then he said, “Is there anyone who has been to the Netherlands, to France, to Sweden, to Greece and to the United Kingdom and come back to Gaza Strip? Gaza is a dirty place. Why do you come back to Gaza? Gaza is a dirty place, and the people there are dirty. Why do you come to live in such a place, where there is no electricity, there is no light, and there is darkness, and there is shortages of fuel, and there is lots of difficulties? Why don’t you live in France, instead?” 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27842

 Who will blink first?
Alex Fishman - Ynet - When the time comes for the Americans to pull out the weapon of military madness, what’s more convenient than Israel? (...) we are holding back those crazy Israelis, and we cannot keep on restraining them for long.
The problem is that these types of threats have their own dynamics, and they may end up fulfilling themselves. What will happen if the Iranians do not blink? [N.B.: It`s a mainstream Israeli military commentator who is doing the warning - ed]
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27844

 Let Mordechai Go Free!
Ad in Haaretz - “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own (...)”. (Article 13.2 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights), was signed by 11 Nobel Laureates.
Published July 7, on the eve of the court session which may bring nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu back to prison on the charge of "speaking to foreigners". [ed] 
 http://toibillboard.info/Vanunu.pdf

 Health Against Wall at Ni`lin
PHR-IL - A mobile clinic with a variety of doctors, is announced 12.7 as part of the ongoing struggle against the building of the Wall on the village’s lands [which makes sense considering that occupation deprives, and providing is fighting against it [ed]].
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27840