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April 16, 2005 - Between summit
and excavation drill
--The week that
was, summits, protests & information about imprisoned activists
--An interview with Jonathan Pollak, recovering from his headwound, by Pat O'Connor for ISM --Protestors prevent trucks from unloading garbage in West Bank dump --Demolition threats in Lud (Lydda) - Ta'ayush mobilizing solidarity --A year after release from prison, Vanunu still punished for nuclear whistleblowing --A Palestinian prison-state? Jeff Halper in The Boston Globe --To Call a Spade - Meir Margalit --Is Abbas on the verge of collapsing? By Ghassan Andoni --Who will investigate? Gush Shalom in an ad in Ha'aretz --A night at Budrus - by Adar Grayevsky --The toll to Palestinian daily life of the ongoing occupation, PCHR week report --Behind the smoke screen of the Gaza pullout - Tanya Reinhart in Yediot Aharonot --Why talk to the Israelis? - by Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz, April 11 --The borders were marked in Texas - says Ha'aretz editorial, April 14 --No one to talk to (again) - by Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz, April 15 --Who has the time to hear of hunger in the Gaza Strip? Akiva Eldar, April 15 --The Eyes that See All - Chen Kotas-Bar's "Breaking the Silence" series, Ma'ariv 12 April --Israeli, Palestinian mayors meet for "civilian truce" The week that was, summits, protests &
information about imprisoned activists
With the Gaza disengagement date drawing closer
peace activists put aside their doubts as to whether settlements will really be
removed - rather prepare for the day after. Rumours that after the Gaza
disengagement there may follow a disengagement-2 should not put sand in
anybody's eyes: only when there is enough determination from enough directions
is there a chance that the disengagement which seems now imminent will not be
turned into an excuse to sit for many years on the laurels while settlements
spread further in the West Bank. In this sense it may be a hopeful sign that
Sharon and Bush in Texas hid behind their smiles some points of
disagreement.
Right now that other rapidly spreading
growth, the separation wall, threatens to split the village of Jabal Mukabber
(East Jerusalem), with the Sheikh Sa??™ed neighborhood being cut off. Over 1,000
Israelis petitioned the authorities to prevent splitting the village. The
residents say that if Israel insists on surrounding Jerusalem with a wall, at
least all of the villagers should be on the same side. (Peace Now, contact
Hillel Bardin bardin@netmedia.net.il)
Two more homes were razed by Caterpillar
excavation drills in the West Bank village of Anata, just hours before the start
of the international Caterpillar boycott campaign - and they won't be the last
ones. This information was produced by ICAHD lucia@icahd.org, and spread further by
Gush Shalom info@gush-shalom.org.
Update on
imprisoned COs - by New Profile, April 12
Yahel held in limbo, Eyal transfered to military
prison-6, Misha was already there but Alex still in prison-4; how you can send
them letters.
For
updates about Tali Fahima (and how to support
her)
On the 20 of April, at 8.30am there will be a hearing of Tali's
petition against
the solitary confinement and other limitations at the Ramle court, location also of the Neve Tirtsa prison where she has to spend many months in isolation awaiting trial. ~~~ An interview with Jonathan Pollak, recovering from
his headwound, by Pat O'Connor for ISM
So yes, I think the violence is deterring people,
but it will not deter people forever. I think people are becoming
angrier and more aware of the situation, and I think that Israel better
understand that if it will break the popular and essentially non-violent
resistance, it will only encourage a more violent and brutal resistance, because
you cannot expect people to just quietly accept their lives being taken away
from them.
full text http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1175
~~~ Protestors prevent trucks from unloading garbage
in West Bank dump
By Arnon Regular and David Ratner, Haaretz April
11
Haaretz revealed last week that Israel has decided to transfer garbage beyond the Green Line and dump it in the West Bank for the first time since 1967. The dump was in its final stages of construction. [But Monday, some 200 Israeli and Palestinian] protestors activists, members of the Anarchists Against the Fence movement, Green movements, as well as Palestinians from the West Bank, arrived at the dump to prevent the trucks from unloading garbage in the site. Demolition threats in Lud (Lydda) - Ta'ayush
mobilizing solidarity
The protest tent is going strong. Every night
guests drop by from near and far. For some this is a first encounter with the
blatant inequity in planning for Arabs, as compared to Jews. Every night, some
visitors spend the night, in case the bulldozers show up at dawn.
read more http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Lud.htm
~~~ A year after release from prison, Vanunu still punished for nuclear whistleblowing - campaign against prolongation of the restrictions on his freedom of speech & movement - A two-week campaign started with Israeli and
international supporters accompaniying Mordechai Vanunu to the Magistrates'
Court in Jerusalem on April 12, for a hearing on charges of violating the
restrictions. Signs in Hebrew and English read: Free Vanunu, Close Dimona
Reactor; Restrict [security boss] Horev, Free Vanunu.
An activist from Hiroshima, Japan told the
media: "The people of Hiroshima know very well, what nuclear weapons are. There
can never be true peace with nuclear weapons. That is why I am here." And
Israeli activist Ofra Ben-Artzi: "I am the mother of draft refuser Jonathan
Ben-Artzi, who is a pacifist and lead our whole family to pacifism. I know how
the system treats people who refuse to be part of the machine, and that is why
I'm here to support Vanunu".
photo: http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Vanunu_ph2.jpg The authorities by prosecuting him are
making a mistake as it confirms Vanunu's information on Israel's nuclear
capacity (Dan Izenberg quoting Vanunu, Jerusalem Post, April
12)
Read also the very touching hommage to Vanunu
by poet/activist Mary La Rosa http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/vanunu_poem.htm
For
more information on Mordechai Vanunu and the campaign against the restrictions,
see: www.vanunu.com, www.vanunu.co.uk
~~~ A Palestinian prison-state? Jeff Halper in The
Boston Globe
Viability, a term found in the road map, is not a
secondary issue. After almost four decades of deliberate Israeli de-development
of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, the Palestinians are left today with
scorched earth. No functioning economy (the Palestinians, 70 percent of whom
live on less than $2 a day, are being kept alive by international relief
agencies); no agriculture (since 1967 Israel has uprooted or cut down a million
olive and fruit trees); no homes for the young generation (Israel has demolished
12,000 Palestinian homes since the occupation began, and refuses to issue
permits to build new ones).
To Call a Spade - Meir
Margalit
Translated from Hebrew by Leora
Gal
Attorney Talia Sasson missed the point. It isn`t a question of sound administration; it is a matter of Jewish racism which draws on religious fundamentalism and right-wing nationalism, the two basic elements in any fascist regime. The settlers bear the flag of nationalist ideology that include typical fascist content; the governmental mechanisms that support the settlers, the military, the government and the agencies, have become the servants of that ideology. As long as the state does not shake off the grip of the extreme right-wing, the process of becoming fascist is unavoidable. The state of Israel is afflicted with cancerous racism; this must be spelled out incessantly as part of the healing process. If we don`t call a spade a spade, if we do not cry out our pain publicly, the public will fail to open its eyes to the extent of the deterioration, and it will not be resisted. Translation published in Occupation
Magazine
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=1695 Hebrew oroginal in Hagada HaSmalit:
http://www.hagada.org.il/hagada/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3240 ~~~ Is Abbas on the verge of collapsing? By Ghassan
Andoni
Walking through the thorny passage of running
reforms in all directions, Abbas is standing alone. Hamas is increasingly
seeking more power; Sharon is pressing for a Palestinian civil war; Mofaz is
threatening, and the world is shaking shoulders and turning back.
Who will
investigate?
On the eve of Sharon's Texas visit, three unarmed
Palestinian boys were killed by the
Israeli army. In retaliation of the killing, which violated the
cease-fire, dozens of mortar shells
and Qassam rockets were fired, as expected, at Gush Kativ. Sharon used this shelling in order to convince
President Bush that the Palestinian leadership has collapsed and that Abu Mazen
should not be supported. He failed.
Remain the questions: Why were the boys killed? Who
is responsible? Who will investigate?
A night at Budrus - by Adar
Grayevsky
English translation - TOI-staff.
[An] army officer had visited the house. He had
shouted at Ahmad, the 14-year old son of A'ed, and accused him of having
participated in pulling down the "Separation Fence". When Ahmad denied it, the
officer said: "Don't get fresh with me, we have photos of you in action. Get
ready, on Saturday we are coming for you!". So, this was Saturday, and we
activists were going to spend the night with Ahmad and his family...
The toll to Palestinian daily life of the ongoing
occupation, PCHR week report
When Israelis are attacked by Palestinians it is
usually getting into the news. For who wants to know also about the toll to
Palestinian daily life of the ongoing occupation, weekly reports are being
published by PCHR (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights):
Behind the smoke screen of the Gaza pullout -
Tanya Reinhart in Yediot Aharonot
Sharon travelled to the USA as a hero of peace, as
if he had already evacuated Gaza and only the follow-up remained to be worked
out. What has completely disappeared from the public agenda is what is happening
meanwhile in the West Bank.
Full article:
Translation into English by Mark Marshall http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=1807 Hebrew original http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3071994,00.html ~~~ Why talk to the Israelis? - by Danny Rubinstein,
Ha'aretz, April 11
Coordination between the government of Israel and
the Palestinian Authority with regard to the withdrawal of the Israel Defense
Forces from the Gaza Strip and the dismantling of the settlements doesn't really
interest the Palestinians. The government of Israel does want to speak to the PA
representatives about the withdrawal arrangements, the fate of the homes and
greenhouses, but as far as the Palestinians are concerned, these are matters of
procedure, not of essence. What the Palestinians would much more like to talk
about is, for example, mapping out the exact borders of the Gaza Strip, the new
locations of the border crossings, and of course the Philadelphi route on the
Strip's border with Egypt. But this Sharon prefers to discuss with Egypt -
without including the Palestinians.
The borders were marked in Texas - says Ha'aretz
editorial, April 14
"It's doubtful Israel will ever find a friendlier
president than Bush, and one more combative toward its enemies. If he drew that
line, for his guest Sharon and the world watching them, it means that any
campaign to save dozens of settlements and tens of thousands of settlers who are
outside that line is doomed from the start."
No one to talk to (again) - by Aluf Benn,
Ha'aretz, April 15
On his way to a meeting with journalists at the
airport in the district capital of Waco, Sharon heard bad news from his aides:
Israeli television reports about the visit were not good. They emphasized his
public debate with Bush, instead of the president's generous praise for the
disengagement plan. Sharon was furious. Why had he bothered to go all the way to
Texas, if at home they were reporting a failure?
Who has the time to hear of
hunger in the Gaza Strip? Akiva Eldar, April 15
(...) who has the time for unemployment and idleness among the Arabs,
or talk of hunger that is driving the Strip youth to acts of despair? This is
the hunger that, according to the IDF, pushed the youths into the hands of the
arms smugglers, or, according to the Palestinians, enticed them into stealing
the cameras positioned on the fence despite fear of the soldiers (according to
the story told by the two youths who came through the ordeal by the skin of
their teeth). Maybe someone would toss them a few shekels for the
cameras.
full text http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563769
~~~ The Eyes that See All - Chen Kotas-Bar's "Breaking the Silence" series, Ma'ariv 12 April 'Sitting in a niche in one of the stinking alleys,
waiting with guns cocked for footsteps that might be heard. I run scenarios in
my head of what will happen if it's an armed person, what will happen if it's
just a boy, and what will happen if it's a man going to get food for his family
after long months of curfew.'
Translation by Occupation Magazine: http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=1781
Hebrew original: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/920/599.html
~~~ Israeli, Palestinian mayors meet for "civilian
truce"
The
two-hour gathering was hosted by Jericho mayor Hassan Saleh, who said "we have
both paid a heavy price... good neighbors will not come with occupation, it will
not come with checkpoints, it will not come with killing or rockets or
bombings." He stressed that it is time to take a more peaceful path to the
Palestinian statehood.
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