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The day after - what truth do
we see?
TOI-Billboard - August 27, 2005 -- This
week:
-- "Here they are expanding the settlements" Adam
Keller from Immatin
-- Bil'in this Friday - rubber bullets and
magnetic signs, Neta Golan
-- Two
condolence visits - at Sanjil and Qalqilya, Yakov
Manor
-- Silent screams, Eetta Prince-Gibson on the Jerusalem Women's
Conference for Peace -- The remaining 99.5 percent, Amira
Hass
-- But what is
the other hand doing? Ofer Shelach
-- Snatching Victory From the Jaws Of Defeat, MJ
Rosenberg
-- A
Colonial Disengagement, Bashir Abu-Manneh
-- Occupation Magazine's latest
articles:
-- Deconstructing disengagement, Azmi
Bishara
-- A cultural
defeat, too, Gideon Samet
-- The High Cost of Occupations, Rachelle Marshall -- Which Israel Will Prevail: The One Which Wants Normality or the Messianic One? Allan C. Brownfeld -- News
Flashes from The Occupied Territories - 27.8.2005 -- Israel Confirms Plan to Seize West Bank Land for Barrier, Greg Myre - The New York Times -- Israel begins building new police station east of Jerusalem, Aluf Benn -- In a Ruined Country, David Samuels -- Israel wants control of Gaza borders post-pullout, Agence France Presse -- At-Tuwani: Palestinian Villagers Prepare for Possible Night Assaults by Israeli Settlers, Joe Carr - CPTnet *** This week:
For the one it was a week of euphoria,
for the other relief that the spectacle would soon be over
which had turned attention so long away of the truth on the West Bank.
But, the killing on the day after the pull-out of five Palestinians during an
army raid into Tulkarem was a wake-up call for all.
The following reports (first) and
commentaries (after that) speak for themselves.
"Here they are expanding the settlements"
Adam Keller reporting from Immatin, August 25 "We have no other source of livelihood than our
olive trees. Now you see here the withered remains of dozens of trees uprooted
by the bulldozers, and there on the other side of where the Fence will go
up there are thousands more to which we will no longer have access, trees which
are simply going to be robbed. You can see the factory belonging to the Immanuel
Settlement, on the hill on the other side of the road. You should know that this
factory was also built on a site where trees belonging to us had been cut down.
We hear that the state of Israel has dismantled the settlements in the Gaza
Strip and Jenin Area, but here they are expanding the settlements, making our
lives bitter."
photos:
Bil'in this Friday - rubber bullets and magnetic
signs
Neta Golan
Peaceful Demonstration in Bil'in Village,
Palestine, attacked by the Israeli military
(...) Israeli activists attempted to engage the soldiers in
dialogue, asking them why they were protecting illegal settlements and pointing
out that these were an obstacle to peace.
...and more about Bil'in this Friday
Several protestors managed to stick magnetic signs on the Israeli soldiers' rifles saying, "this weapon kills peace and steals land" in three languages, Arabic, English and Hebrew. photos series starting
at:
NB, last minute news: Ben Ronen, one
of the Israelis arrested at the demonstration in Bil'in is being charged with
assaulting a policeman (that's what they say when they beat somebody up).
While the others were released after a few hours, the police are keeping him in
jail. He will be brought before a judge Saturday at 9:30pm in the Russian
Compound in Jerusalem.
Two condolence visits - at Sanjil and
Qalqilya
Ya'acov Manor A group of Israeli peace activists went to visit the families of the Palestinian workers murdered by their colleague, an armed settler. The impressions recorded by Ya'acov Manor were translated from Hebrew by TOI. A family member said:
"What deepens our pain is the fact that he was
killed by a fellow worker who knew him well. They have been working together and
eating together, and suddenly this man grabs a gun and kills him, without any
reason. We just can't understand how such a thing can happen."
Silent screams
Last week, more than 650 women peace activists from 44 countries convened in Jerusalem for the second International Women in Black Conference. For four days, in almost unbearable heat, the women sat under tents at the Seven Arches Hotel on the Mount of Olives, listening to panel discussions simultaneously translated into six different languages, and participating in workshops. One day was devoted to the Palestinian-Israel conflict, including topics such as "The Politics of the Judaization of Jerusalem;" "Is the two-state solution still viable?" and "Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel." Each workshop was co-facilitated by a Palestinian and an Israeli woman. more... http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124677191019&apage=1 photos
at: http://www.fire.or.cr/indexeng.htm
http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english/events/women_in_black_0805 The remaining 99.5
percent
Amira Hass For the sake of about half a percent of the population of the Gaza Strip, a Jewish half-percent, the lives of the remaining 99.5 percent were totally disrupted and destroyed - worthy of wonderment indeed. And also amazing is how most of the other Israelis, who did not go themselves to settle the homeland, suffered this reality and did not demand that their government put an end to it - before the Qassams. But what is the other hand
doing? Ofer Shelach
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Occupation Magazine's choice of
articles
Latest
articles as listed on http://www.kibush.co.il/
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| Deconstructing
disengagement Azmi Bishara - Al-Ahram Weekly - Despite the smokescreen of his face-off with Gaza`s settlers, Sharon has not changed course from his war on the Palestinians | |
| A cultural defeat,
too Gideon Samet - Haaretz - The evacuation of Gaza was, of course, a cultural war too. But in this war, the sides spoke in different languages. Their formations were armed with weapons of completely different kinds. | |
| The High Cost of
Occupations Rachelle Marshall - The Washington report - "I FOUND myself treating Palestinians with an outward contempt that contradicted every instinct my upbringing had instilled in me...I broke into homes after midnight and held women and children under guard....I screamed at old men and bullied teenagers...A majority of my buddies saw nothing wrong with Israel having built a Jewish town in the middle of the West Bank." | |
| Which Israel Will
Prevail: The One Which Wants Normality or the Messianic One? Allan C. Brownfeld - Washington Report - THE DIVISIONS are growing between those Israelis who seek to make their country a normal state, living in peace with its neighbors, and those who see it as the fulfillment of messianic prophesy and reject any territorial concessions. | |
| News Flashes from
The Occupied Territories - 27.8.2005 IMEMC and Agencies - Israeli soldiers attack Bil`ein nonviolent demonstration; Army confiscated one car in Tammoun; Settlers threw cocktails bomb at wedding in Qalqilia; Army invades Azoon, near Qalqila; Army arrests one resident in Al Mawasi; Abu Al Haija in solitary confinement in Asqalan Prison; Editorials and Articles in Palestinian Dailies | |
| Israel Confirms Plan
to Seize West Bank Land for Barrier Greg Myre - The New York Times - Israeli officials confirmed Wednesday that the government had issued orders to seize West Bank land needed to extend the separation barrier around the largest Jewish settlement, Maale Adumim, and link it to Jerusalem. | |
| Israel begins
building new police station east of Jerusalem Aluf Benn - Haaretz - Israel is starting to build in Area E-1, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma`aleh Adumim. The Civil Administration`s Planning Council in the West Bank is expected to approve relocating the headquarters of the Judea and Samaria police district from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud to Area E-1 in the coming days. | |
| In a Ruined
Country David Samuels - Arafat`s failure to conquer Jerusalem did not shatter his conviction that history was moving in his favor: under pressure from within and without, isolated in the world, the State of Israel would eventually crack apart and dissolve, to be replaced by Arab Palestine. | |
| Israel wants control
of Gaza borders post-pullout Agence France Presse - Israel wants to keep control over the borders of the Gaza Strip even after its historic pullout, citing fears Friday that the Palestinian territory will turn into a bastion of militancy awash with weapons. | |
| At-Tuwani:
Palestinian Villagers Prepare for Possible Night Assaults by Israeli
Settlers Joe Carr - CPTnet - On 21 August 2005, a group of Israeli settlers terrorized Palestinian villagers during the night around Nablus in the northern West Bank. Settlers marched through eight villages chanting, threatening, and destroying Palestinian property. | |
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