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No winners, just broken hearts

By Robi Damelin   For what did they give up their lives? A further status quo? A life of uncertainty, a roulette of survival. full text http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746313.html

 

 

 

[All the following articles were selected  by TOI from Occupation Magazine's daily updates of August 6, August 3, August 2, August 1, July 26 - in this descending order]

 

5,000 protest against Lebanon war in Tel Aviv
Haaretz - Yuli Kromchenko and Yoav Stern - Demonstrators set off from Dizengoff Street and marched along King George Street, which was closed to traffic, calling for an end to the conflict and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, and denouncing Defense Minister Amir Peretz. [Adam Keller's report will be sent soon over the Gush Shalom email list; see also  the photoreportage at http://www.gush-shalom.org  ]

 

Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes For Indiscriminately Targeting Lebanese Civilians
Democracy Now - "HRW Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert speaks from Beirut on the bombing of Qana, Israel’s use of cluster bombs, phosphorous weapons and depleted uranium. Earlier today Human Rights Watch issued a new report titled “Fatal Strikes: Israel`s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon." [includes rush transcript]

 

Aug. 2006: Almost half the fatalities in the Gaza Strip in July were civilians not taking part in the hostilities
B`Tselem The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

 

Statement on Gaza by United Nations Humanitarian Agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory
"The United Nations humanitarian agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory are deeply alarmed by the impact continuing violence is having on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza, which has resulted in a sharp decline in the humanitarian situation facing 1.4 million people, more than half of them children."

 

The Apache war
Salman Masalha - Haaretz - "This is the time to make a conscious turnabout, among both the Israelis and Palestinians, before we all march gloriously to hell. Needless to say, the deluge won`t follow. "

 

IDF inquiry into Qana a whitewash

Amnesty International - Press Release

 

The most unsuccessful war
Ze`ev Sternhell - Haaretz - "a war of survival was invented, which by nature must be long and exhausting."

 

Interview: Adel Samara
Tania Tabar - IMEMC - "That’s after 31 years, when my wife -- who was born here, who has children, who also married here, my daughter has a baby of 3 years here - despite all of these things, they called for a deportation."

 

Demonstration Today [August 1], In front of the USA embassy at Hayarkon st.
" We shall not be killed nor shall we kill for USA! "

 

600 Palestinians taken prisoner by Israel over the past month
IMEMC - " In an official report, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli soldiers took 600 Palestinian residents prisoners since the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from a military post in the southern Gaza Strip last month. "

 

The Future of Israel is at Stake
Michael Warschawski- Alternative Information Center - " Fear is the starting point of the new era, hatred is its finality. This is the reason why the neo-cons of the US administration are speaking of a non-ending war...an expensive advertisement published by the Israeli neo-cons on the front page of Ha`aretz:"Israel is at the forefront of the war against world Jihad... "

 

No More Foot-Dragging
NY Times - Editorial - "What is needed now is the sort of aggressive diplomacy and international coalition building that the Bush administration typically disdains. And it needs to come together in days, not weeks."

 

A Comprehensive Approach to the Current Crises
Gershon Baskin and Hanna Siniora - IPCRI - "Greater will of all parties involved to replace the paradigm of violence with one of political dialogue and negotiations."

 

The turnabout will come quickly
Meron Benvenisti - Haaretz - " when slogans like "uprooting terror," "a war for our homes," "an existential struggle" and their like, turn from resonant war-cries into empty rhetoric."

 

Who condemns the victimizer?
Maarten Jan Hijmans and Fadi Hirzalla - The Electronic Intifada - "With regard to Israel`s "defense" rhetoric, one should pose some key questions and consider the obvious irrefutability of their answers."

 

 

 

 

 

Further reading

ISM website

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/ (informing especially about anti-Wall struggle in the villages) 

 

Robert Rosenberg's summary of "peace" issues in the Israeli media

http://www.ariga.com/  (on workdays)

 

http://www.theheadlines.org/ (a variety of papers, followed dayly by Shadi Fadda)

 

http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml (Palestinian press agency, including own research)

 

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php (Palestinian on-line News agency that publishes news and articles in English from it's own as well as other sources, including from the Hebrew press)

 

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