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We shall
not silently accept thuggery and vandalism TOI-Billboard,
December 31, 2005 While
we hope for a better year, it was once more a week where our region was too much
in the news: *Tonight, Yizkor (In Memoriam), a group of bereaved
families demanding withdrawal to the Green line, will mourn Binamo in three
vigils to be held in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa; contact: Shimri
Tzameret shimriz@gmail.com
*** It
was - and is - also the week of the Bil??™in ???Palestinian outpost??™, with already
twice a trailer removed by the same army which is so extremely lax in touching
the settler outposts. Meanwhile Palestinians and Israeli Anarchists built on that spot a stone construction as you can see on the photo: http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Biliin__outpost.jpg N.B.: this is to the west of the Wall route, in the 60% of
the lands to be taken from the Bil??™in farmers. Today Ta??™ayush is there for a
solidarity visit. Tomorrow a Gush-Shalom group will celebrate on that same location the last day of Hanukka - the Modi??™in settlement for whose sake the Bil??™in lands are taken is the historical site where the Hashmoneans revolted against Hellenistic occupation, and during which took place ???the Hanukka miracle??™... There
are several more joint Israeli-Palestinian protests taking place during this
very weekend: yesterday, against the murderous (and unpunished) behavior of Border Guards in Jerusalem;
today, a roadblock protest near Nablus; and there is the ongoing persistent
struggle of Israeli individuals and groups protecting Palestinian agriculture
against settler harassment, and lending a hand in the actual work. Apart from
the constant updates of the very devoted Rabbis for Human Rights we received the
following piece of information from a group of kibbutzniks: ???We shall not silently accept thuggery and vandalism??™ *** Our
choice of articles: State Land
Grab 2005 A Peace
Now press Release of Dec.
28 Yesterday
two tenders were published for construction in the settlements - Settlers, hands off the olive
trees
David
Forman,
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 26
I
recently joined a group from Rabbis for Human Rights on a mission to the South
Hebron Hills. (??¦) We wanted to
protect these Palestinians from marauding settlers who, we had
reason to expect, might prevent them from working their lands - or worse,
replicate what the ruffians from northern Samaria had been doing.
Most of the Palestinian fields in the South Hebron Hills area have already been expropriated by the government for settler use under the guise of creating "security zones" on what now have become state owned lands. There seems to be a coordinated plan by the government, IDF, civil administration and Jewish settlers to make the South Hebron area "Arab Free." This effort includes the destruction of houses, tents and caves. It apparently involves sealing wells, uprooting orchards, poisoning grazing fields and preventing Arab residents from farming their land and tending their livestock. Read
more: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309653390&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Democracy of lords and
masters
Ze'ev
Sternhell, Ha'aretz,
Dec. 29 "Abusive practices," the repeated chopping down of olive trees, the theft of lands near the settlement of Modi'in Illit and the regular pogrom that is the daily lot of Hebron's Arabs (and these are examples only from the news of recent days) can surprise only those who never wanted to know. Among them, unfortunately, are many of those who work in the mass media. full
text
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663596.html
There's a
system for turning Palestinian property into Israel's state
land By
Akiva Eldar, Ha??™aretz,
Dec. 30, 2005 Ehud
Barak likes to compare the State of Israel to a villa in a jungle. It would be
interesting to know whether he means that the areas of the settlements in the
territories are a legal veranda of the villa or part of the jungle.
Right
under the noses, in the best case, of prime ministers, chiefs of staff and GOCs
{Generals in Command] of the Central Command, who are responsible for "Judea and
Samaria" (the West Bank), among them Barak himself, the State of Israel has
imposed the law of the jungle on those territories. The Civil Administration,
with the blessing of the State Prosecutor's Office, has been a key partner in a
system of real estate deals, of which the description "dubious" would be
complimentary. full
text
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/662729.html
Who Needs a Camel? Uri Avnery,
Dec.31,
2005 Some 107 years ago, in the heyday of British imperialism, when China was down and out, the captains of the Empire wanted to take possession of Hong Kong, a Chinese island of great strategic value. For some reason, they did not want to annex it outright, preferring a gimmick. China was compelled to "rent" it out for 99 years, and it became a British crown colony. Now the
[Labour Party] program proposes a
similar gimmick: the Palestinian Authority will rent the "settlement blocs" to
Israel for 99 years, and Israel will pay the rent in money or territory (also
rented for 99 years?) And what will Israel do in the rented areas? Cover it with
settlements to the last centimeter. So what will it return in 99
years? It is
hard to imagine a Palestinian who can distinguish between this idea and the
annexation proposed by Sharon. Or a Palestinian who cares much what will happen
in 99 years time. Full
text http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/avnery_dec31.rtf
A Waiting Game
Amir
Oren on
the Gaza operation, Ha??™aretz,
Dec. 30, 2005 [A must for those who don't believe us when we say that power has its limitations, as this military commentator's tongue in cheek remarks reflect the mood in the army high command.] The Palestinians and the Lebanese are not like the Egyptians and the Jordanians. Our reporter has learned that the Palestinians and the Lebanese are not upholding the agreement that was not reached with them, concerning Israel's unilateral withdrawal from their territories. According to a security source, Israel has two tested methods to impose a cease-fire in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip: the stick and the carrot. "If they refuse to eat the stick," the source warned, "we will beat them with the carrot." The source expressed his fury at the use of simple means of combat against Israel. "If they had a nuclear reactor," he sighed, "we would have already destroyed it." (...) The IDF is deeply frustrated because its sophisticated solutions are effective only against sophisticated threats, and are no use against crude missiles such as the Palestinians use. Full
article
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=oren&itemNo=664397
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