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'Zero alerts' says the general
TOI-Billboard - May 14, 2005

--The general situation

'Zero alerts' says the general, by Robert Rosenberg

According to army figures: increase in settler attacks against Palestinians

Q & A with former Mossad head Efraim Halevy

Checkpoint of No Return by Kasper Lundberg

--Activism update

Update on Imprisoned Objectors by Sergeiy Sandler

Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned Israeli Arab villages

Israeli anarchist group puts up posters of Palestinian children killed by the IDF

'Drive, Drive, Drive to Nablus' - roadblocks removed in joint action

El-Ukbi tribe goes to court

Supreme Court hearing about the Wall and the IRC, report HR adv. Netta Ammar

Deir Al Ghasoon-Another Village under Threat
70% disabled detainee under interrogation - PCATI petitions Supreme Court
'Family visits a rare event' reports WOFPP

Catch 22 in Samoa reported by Rabbis for Human Rights

--Various articles

Brutal occupation takes toll on Israel's soul by Dorothy Naor
The Palestinian Gandhi by Ran Hacohen
Death of a Myth - Uri Avnery
Refusal on the right and refusal on the left by Reuven Kaminer
U.S. Anglicans criticize Israel W. Bank policy, eyeing divestment

[The general situation]

'Zero alerts' says the general, by Robert Rosenberg

Robert Rosenberg's daily comments provide a good "peace selection" from the Israeli media

[In] Yedioth Ahronoth, Ofer Shelach gets outgoing general Gadi Eisencott on the record as saying that there are ???zero??™ terror alerts this week in the West Bank. Eisencott says it has become ???a conditioned reflex??™ to say that there will be another round of violence and indicates that it is in Israel??™s power to do whatever it can to prevent that from happening, by offering hope to the other side.

According to army figures: increase in settler attacks against Palestinians

Maariv reported that settler attacks on Palestinians soared by 52 percent, pointing out that from January to April, 2005 more than 265 cases were opened against settlers for being suspected of disturbing order and exercising violence against Palestinian civilians in different levels, compared with 174 cases against settlers opened against them between January and April, 2004.

for more http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=4468

Q & A with former Mossad head Efraim Halevy

Israel should negotiate the terms of its accomodation with the Palestinians, first and foremost with their leadership rather than engage the United States in negotiating with Israel on the detailed substance of the permanent solution.

read it all http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/QA.jhtml?qaNo=125

Checkpoint of No Return by Kasper Lundberg

"I'm here to protect my country against terrorists," the young man tells me shrugging as if he is not completely confident with his answer. "So have you seen a lot of terrorists here in Hebron?" I ask eager to get a first-hand description of such a menace.

[Activism update]

Update on Imprisoned Objectors by Sergeiy Sandler

sergeiy@netvision.net.il

"It has come to my attention that [name & military ID], a conscientious objector, has been imprisoned for his refusal to perform military service for the [n-th] time in a row, and is held in Military Prison No. [4/6]."

read a lot more http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/refusnik_update.htm

Israeli anarchist group puts up posters of Palestinian children killed by the IDF
Orly Popper, Ynet (Yediot Aharonot)

TEL AVIV - Left-wing anarchist activists put up dozens of posters around
Tel Aviv on Wednesday that showed pictures of Palestinian children killed
by the army during more than four years of violence.

full text http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3084217,00.html
photo < 48453/80570_Dscf0213_m.jpg 0213_m.jpg">http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/01082004/556730/Dscf0213_m.jpg

'Drive, Drive, Drive to Nablus' - roadblocks removed in joint action

Received from "International Solidarity Movement" neta_golan@yahoo.com

The closure has caused tremendous hardship for the village. One house,
owned by Abu Anwar, a refugee from Lydda, is isolated from the village on
the other side of the roadblock. Abu Anwar's family is forbidden by
the Israeli military to drive to Nablus and access any of the city's
services, and at the same time, they are cut off from their own
village by the concrete blocks.

full report http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/road_unblocking.htm

Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned Israeli Arab villages
Yoav Stern, Haaretz

In the morning, families of internally displaced Palestinians visited the sites of the villages that they left or from which they were expelled in 1948. In the afternoon, 5,000 people held a rally at the site of Khirbet Husha and Khirbet Ksair near Kibbutz Usha in the Galilee. Some of the participants at the rally arrived from the center of the country on a bus bearing the symbolic number 194, the number of the UN resolution dealing with the Palestinians' "right of return." The bus ride was organized by Zochrot, an organization dedicated to educating the Israeli public about the state's wrong-doings against the Palestinians.

read the article http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/575393.html

El-Ukbi tribe goes to court

Thus, Giv??ot Bar came into existence instead of El-Arakib village. The El-Ukbi tribe proposed to their new neighbors that they live together in partnership on the land, but so far, got no response.

Supreme Court hearing about the Wall and the IRC, report HR adv. Netta Ammar

It is not clear why is there a sudden urgency to uproot the trees, since the injunction was granted. Six months have passed since the petition was filed, until the State submitted its reply. Although most of the route passes through Israeli lands, construction has not even started on that side. There seems an urgent need to damage only in the West Bank side in Budrus [lawyer Ronit Robinson - petitioners]

Deir Al Ghasoon-Another Village under Threat

By Flo - ISM mailing May 11

Of the several hundred farming families in Deir Al Ghasoon, only 50 have been granted permission to pass through the gate in the Wall, leaving the rest to slowly wither financially like their lost crops on the other side.

Occupation Magazine 'Life under occupation' http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=2895

70% disabled detainee under interrogation - PCATI petitions Supreme Court

Today, Tuesday, May 10, 2005, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) attorney Luna Barakat filed a third petition to the High Court of Justice demanding that the Order Prohibiting Meeting with Counsel imposed against Nawaf Ismail Hussein Qaysi since his arrest on 15.4.05 be lifted. PCATI is concerned that the long standing order makes it possible of GSS interrogators to use violent and illegal means in Mr. Qaysi??™s interrogation as was done in the interrogation of countless other detainees. Furthermore, Nawaf Qaysi is 70% disabled, and has only limited use of his left leg, back, and pelvis, a situation which causes him severe pain and incontinence.

http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/torture.htm

'Family visits a rare event' reports WOFPP

There are many obstacles that make the family visits a rare event. The first obstacle is the ongoing closure; then there are people who are forbidden to leave their dwelling place or to visit the prison. For example, Lyla Bouhary from Nablus hasn??™t seen her family for three years. There are also the punishments. The prison authorities use deprivation of family visits as a common punishment. For example Amne Muna, Aaysha Abayat, Sanaa Aamr and Fairuz Marhil were punished by being deprived of family visits for a period of six months.

for more http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/wofpp_news.htm

Catch 22 in Samoa reported by Rabbis for Human Rights

Villagers from Samoa, who went out to perform land-measurements regarding ???disputed lands??? near Sussia settlement, as required by the Civil Administration, were attacked by settlers from Sussia. RHR have called the army and the police, but these arrested the Palestinians and not the attackers.

RHR continues its agrarian involvement, still the plowing season

[Various articles]

Brutal occupation takes toll on Israel's soul by Dorothy Naor

Loss of life is but one cost of occupation. Israelis pay dearly also in poverty, violence, and post-traumatic stress. Drastic cuts in social benefits have reduced Israel's social expenditures to among the lowest in western countries, leaving nearly 1.5 million Israelis below the poverty line, one of every five children going to bed hungry, more Israelis than ever before depending on soup kitchens and more homeless. At their expense, the Israeli government spends enormous funds to create the "greater Israel."

The Palestinian Gandhi by Ran Hacohen

Instead of screening "Gandhi" in the occupied territories, let [the Gandhi enthusiasts] screen throughout America the footage of the recent demonstration in the Palestinian village of Bil'in (to be found on Gush Shalom's Web site).

Death of a Myth - Uri Avnery

A small and gallant state, progressive and (relatively) egalitarian, respected by the world, has become an occupying and looting state, hostage to delirious settlers, full of internal violence and "swinish capitalism" (a phrase coined by Shimon Peres, one of those most responsible for this situation.) Throughout the world, the idea of boycotting Israel is gaining ground.

for the full English article http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html

Refusal on the right and refusal on the left by Reuven Kaminer

rkaminer@netvision.net.il

It is of course true that there is a technical similarity between the two kinds of refusal. The law demands showing up and obeying military discipline. The refusal by the soldier to follow an order activates a chain of disciplinary sanctions. But this external similarity should not hide or obscure the vast difference between the two approaches in regards to the principles of democracy and the rule of law.

full text http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=7410&CategoryId=5

Hamas - the partner's partner - Ha'aretz editorial, Tue., May 10, 2005

Israel, which continues to divide the Palestinian population and its various leadership into "supporters of terror" and "opponents of terror," is required to adopt finer and more precise distinctions. Primarily, it must shape its policies so that it can truly help those considered to be more moderate - whether they be from Fatah or Hamas - to fulfill their commitments to their supporters.
A more precise distinction means understanding, for example, that prisoner releases can no longer distinguish between Hamas and Fatah detainees; that work permits and the easing of restrictions cannot disregard Hamas' political power; and, primarily, that the term "terror infrastructures" requires a more narrow definition that rests on acknowledging that Hamas' participation in the political process is part and parcel of the complexity of Palestinian politics.

full text http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574318.html

U.S. Anglicans criticize Israel W. Bank policy, eyeing divestment

The U.S. Episcopal Church, considering a review of investments in companies that do business with Israel, said on Thursday a high-level fact-finding team came back deeply disturbed after visiting the West Bank and nearby areas. "Israel has a right to defend itself. But it appears that, in the name of security, injustices are being done to the Palestinians that amount to collective punishment," said Jacqueline Scott, a member of the Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns.

more in http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/575397.html

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