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TOI-Billboard Feb. 26,
2005: Sharon's own roadmap
Our own reporting & links to our selection
of articles
--Sharon's own roadmap
- summary of the week
--Send Halutz
flying - protests against the appointment of a new Chief-of-Staff
--Anarchists and the villages ?? daily
anti-Wall struggle
--Talking Peace while the Bulldozers
Work
--Not
forgetting Lifta
--Israel's new
frontier -- by Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz
--Testing democracy in Jerusalem --
by Sarah Kreimer, Jerusalem Post
--Hidden costs of Israel's occupation policies --
by Chris McGreal, The Guardian
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Sharon's own roadmap
- summary of the week
This week the Sharon-Peres government moved a step
further on its own roadmap: the much publicized cabinet vote for
the possibility of settler evacuation from Gaza, but.. in the same cabinet
meeting a decision to defy the International Court in the Hague and
go through with the Wall route which would slice off 7% of the West Bank
lands (mostly arable land, with good water sources).
Meanwhile preparations are in high gear for building whole new urban
settlements between the Green Line and the wall & the planning of big
housing projects in the area connecting Jerusalem with Ma??aleh
Adumim - as Gush Shalom emphasized in its weekly statement. And
Peace Now's Settlement Watch revealed that even in Gaza during the last
few months of 2004 construction of new settlement houses had continued.
While the Palestinian government struggled to renew
itself, daily reports continued on Palestinians coming too close to certain
fences and being shot dead by Israeli soldiers, or Palestinians lifted from
their beds (less than before, but still) and driven to detention centers in
nightly IDF raids in Palestinian cities.
For their part, the settlers are setting up their
own "general staff" to confront the imminent evacuations. "The Israeli government (...) continues to fund the war
against it with its own money" wrote Nehemia Strassler (Feb. 25), Ha'aretz
economic commentator.
And then, on Friday evening another
Palestinian blowing himself up and taking with him 4 Tel-Avivians who had been
strolling the beach esplanade, and wounding 50.
During the Arafat era we got used to seeing
such nihilistic and debilitating Palestinian initiatives being used as an
excuse by our government to escalate the unequal war against the occupied
Palestinians. The fact that today the military establishment and the Sharon
government were not hasty in reaching such a decision - that is the advantage of
the present Palestinian leadership over its predecessors. Or is this
over-optimistic, and will our government just use this card for obstructing the
efforts of Abu Mazen to progress more speedily with The Roadmap - to get at
last to the long overdue final stage, and a viable Palestinian state
in the territories occupied in 1967? Possibly the controversy will crystallize
around the London Conference, expected to catch the headlines of the coming
days.
<<>>
Also this week:
Send Halutz flying - protests against the appointment of a new
Chief-of-Staff
[Feb. 24] Demonstrators carried signs reading "I DON'T sleep well at night", "WRONG APPOINTMENT" (...) ???Children watch you from the clouds!" Full report of youthful anti-Halutz protest at: http://www.geocities.com/keller_adam/halutz_vigil.htm and:
Yesh Gvul demands:
"Send Halutz flying"
In an ad in Ha'aretz on Feb. 25 the refuser movement
Yesh Gvul declared that it "will act to bring Halutz to
justice before international tribunals which do not exhibit the same clemency
towards war crimes as Israel`s judicial system."
<<>>
Anarchists and the villages ?? daily anti-Wall struggle The Tel Aviv-based Anarchists Against the Wall had a busy week. ???At Bila'in the bulldozers are working quite close to the village houses, about four or five kilometers from the Green Line (pre-'67 border). Not that this is the decisive factor for us, we would protest even if the Wall was being built on the Green Line itself, since we oppose the whole idea of erecting walls to separate people from each other. more on: <<>> Talking Peace while the
Bulldozers Work
"Talking about "an end to
violence" ?? while continuing to strangle the Palestinian neighborhoods of
Jerusalem with walls and turning them into fenced enclaves. Talking about
"two states" ?? and continuing to section the West Bank with fences.
Disengaging from the suffering and the misery that Israel will leave behind in
the Gaza Strip, a fenced enclave ?? and continuing to create new enclaves in the
West Bank, through fences, roads, check-points and settlements.
Talking about evacuation of settlements while constructing new ones." background of the Feb 25 protest
at:
report expected at:
<<>>
also Friday, Feb. 25:
Not forgetting Lifta Friday, 11am activists came at the call of Zochrot to the entrance of Jerusalem, to the remains of Lifta village. Lifta is one of the few Palestinian villages to escape total demolition after being emptied in 1948. Up to the present the village houses can be discerned from the Tel-Aviv--Jerusalem highway. Among those who came were former inhabitants - having become refugees and never allowed back. The activists posted signs at village landmarks and also had produced special brochures. The event was not only a commemoration but also a protest: a current building plan threatens to destroy the remains of the village to make way for a new Jewish neighborhood... more about Zochrot
activities at:
Aluf Benn reveals how the decisions are taken which cause Palestinians to lose their lands: "I will not say to you, Mr. Prime Minister, that we will
not Full text of the well-researched article
<<>> Testing democracy in Jerusalem Sarah Kreimer, Jerusalem Post "Young Anatoly Sharansky paid a high price, fighting for the
rights of free speech in the Soviet Union, and for the freedom to become part of
the nation which expressed his yearnings as a Jew. Today, in Jerusalem, the city
for which Sharansky bears ministerial Full text <<>> Hidden costs of Israel's occupation policies
Israelis are paying a high but rarely acknowledged economic and social cost for nearly 40 years of occupation, says a report commissioned by Oxfam published today. full text
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