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Israeli politics awakening from coma TOI-Billboard, January 14, 2006The Other Israel's weekly email updates The tone in the media is
shifting from eulogy to assessing the post-Sharon reality. To end this week summary on a
hopeful note: there are signs that with the collapse of its Strong Man Israeli
democracy is showing the first signs of waking up: Read also the comment of the
Haaretz editors Week report of Ilan Shalif (Anarchists
Against The Wall) on Bil'in campaign Scroll down for
several ISM reports on actions in different West Bank
locations NB:
This week Ta'ayush took the initiative
to a Bil'in action inside the Green Line: a protest vigil
against the Matrix company (Wed., 11.1 noon) opposite its headquarters in
Herzliya Pituach. Matrix, one of the largest software companies in
Israel, has opened a branch in the settlement Modi??™n Illit - the settlement
on whose behalf most lands of Bil'in as well as parcels belonging to
four more villages were usurped. (The route of the so-called "Security
Fence" was chosen so as to make the land robbery a "fact on the ground.")
This week an abundance of oped articles in Ha'aretz - transforming the week-end edition into a true think tank The Ten Commandments are on the way
One person weeps on TV remembering the adventure in Qalqilyah, another was with Sharon at Umm Katef, a third at the Suez Canal, and all remained alive, of course, to tell the tale of the glorious victor. Only in Kibiyeh, for some reason, was Sharon on his own, to show you that history has at least one advantage: there are events nobody wants to have participated in (...) full
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territory, minimum Arabs On occasions like this, the media tends to fall into political kitsch, but this time it also groveled before the tendency of many Israelis to evade responsibility for what is done in their name and to leave "politics" in the hands of a strong leader who doesn't hassle them with the need to participate in decisions. Five years of terror and subjugation, of the economic crisis and the dismantling of the settlements in Gaza - have made Israel a very tired country full text
A message
for Olmert "I'm saying to Mr. Olmert: You can revive the peace process and revive hope and influence developments for you and the Palestinians, by agreeing and accepting our call to resume the negotiations. You may, Mr. Olmert, choose the way and say I'm going [through a] transition and it's too early. That's the natural politician's response. I hope you take the baton of leaders and not politicians. full text
The issue of Barghouti's release is secondary at the moment. The primary issue is to conduct negotiations with him, and this is possible even when he is in prison. This is how the negotiations in South Africa began when Nelson Mandela was still in prison; this is how the negotiations on the future of Algeria began with Ahmed Ben Bella, and the incarcerated IRA prisoners were also the main force in shaping the agreement in Northern Ireland. It must be recalled that in Israel, too, the calm that was achieved during the disengagement from the Gaza Strip would not have been achieved without the prisoners having forced it on the organizations there. full
text Olmert's
strategic options With this [third] option [recommended by Schiff] Israel will try on its own to determine the temporary borders, which are mentioned in the road map, vis a vis the Palestinian entity, which will later become a state. Israel cannot do this without additional withdrawals, or only by means of a security fence and separation. This means that first of all, there has to be a withdrawal from isolated settlements and illegal outposts. And later, there must be a withdrawal from Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. full text
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Guy Bechor It's time to give Palestinian Jerusalemites a choice - Israeli or Palestinian citizenship full
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Ghada Karmi, Jan. 13, 2006 As Ariel Sharon exits Israel's political scene, few Palestinians are mourning him. Americans may struggle to grasp why, since, according to President Bush, Sharon is a man of peace who courageously removed Jewish settlements. Yet in vacating Gaza last summer, Israel was only leaving a territory illegally occupied for 38 years. Moreover, Sharon was handsomely rewarded with U.S. tolerance for expanding far more cherished West Bank settlements. full text
By Alain Gresh (...) we have seen a clear change in perspective in statements by European leaders: suddenly it is up to the Palestinians - the occupied - to prove their goodwill. The European Union??™s references to the obligations of both camps do little to disguise this orientation towards Sharon??™s vision: that all progress towards peace now depends on the PA, which is required to reform itself, get rid of Palestinian armed groups and show its willingness to coexist with Israel. The media have reflected this perspective, blanking out or downplaying the realities of Israeli policy - its disregard of international law and the war crimes it commits. full
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Labor MK: We may act to outlaw Yesha council Roee Nahmias Chairman of the
Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee Raleb Majadele (Labor) on
Wednesday more
The
Shiite-Sunni mystery (...) instead of that annoying habit of actually learning something, we're doing something much more fun, and that is expressing our opinions about subjects about which we know absolutely nothing. full texthttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3198372,00.html Lapid is the son of the above-mentioned Shinuy Party leader and a media personality in hiw own right who expresses his views in satire Occupation Magazine's choice
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