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Doves of prey TOI-Billboard,
August 20, 2006
The
Other Israel's email updates
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Introduction
--TOI's
selection of this week's Occupation Magazine's daily picks
N.B. today's Occ.
Magazine update was edited by Adam Keller) http://www.kibush.co.il/ (also attached)
Upon the
ceasefire, in Israel war euphoria turned into a pandemonium of
recriminations - in the media, but also in many overheard discussions of "men in
the street." The Army Chief-of-Staff was found out to have sold his
stocks just before giving orders to the grand attack against Lebanon. But
not only his career is at stake, also those of Defence Minister Peretz, and
PM Olmert. The threatened trio decided yesterday upon another gamble to
cover their losses: a provocative commando raid deep in Lebanon, not really
gaining them much "glory."
Meanwhile,
the anti-war coalition is trying to get the attention back to that
underreported bloodletting in Gaza - and also quite some in the West Bank -
which continued and continues day after day.
Doves
of prey
B. Michael - YNET - "Israel`s belligerent doves should pause to ponder one small question: If they - famous peace lovers - have turned into doves of prey after deaths of 100 Israelis, then what do they suppose is going through the minds of doves, hawks alike who have suffered 1,000 casualties, hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, and scores of pounded villages?" http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15763 From
City to Town to Village, Israeli `Summer Rains` Continue to fall on Gaza
Rami Almeghari -- IMEMC News -- "According to the latest Palestinian Health Ministry reports, since the June 26 military attack codenamed `Summer Rains` has begun, the Israeli occupation army has killed 203 Palestinians, including 58 children and 25 women, and wounded 783 others, including 281 children, and 86 women. 72 of the injured have had limbs amputated" http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15768 Weekly
Digest: Reports from Checkpoints, 6.8.06--12.8.06
MachsomWatch -- Military Court Ofer, Monday, 7.8.06: ?One of the fringe benefits of observing in the military court is to witness the bursts of joy of the prisoners when they can see their family members for the short time of their hearing. It is the only opportunity they have to exchange some words, some news, some smiles and to receive encouragement [?] Sometimes it seems that the prisoners are less interested in their trial than in the conversations with their family [?] Given the complete lack of influence the prisoners have on the outcome of their case, this is not surprising? http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15769 Deepening
the fault lines
Omar Yousef Shehabi - The Electronic Intifada - "Olmert and Bush know that the Israeli public has lost its nerve and its stomach for a unilateral withdrawal from one inch of the West Bank." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15803 3
Palestinian Civilians Killed and 3 Others Wounded by IOF in the Northern Gaza
Strip
PCHR - Detailed description of the chain of events leading to the army shooting at a civilian unarmed crowd, killing three. We
told Olmert the army is hollow
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - "This was not the first time Olmert had heard the army is not properly prepared for war." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15799 Nasrallah didn`t mean to
Amira Hass - Haaretz - " What is permitted to us is forbidden to others. What hurts us does not hurt others (because they are "other")." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15801 Hezbollah
gaining strength where democracy once dwelt Rashid Khalidi - Chicago Tribune -"The Israeli government and the Bush administration both suffer from the foolish illusion (one easy to understand among warmongers in Washington who have never been near a battlefield) that war is the solution to problems in the Middle East. The idea that Arabs understand only force, which underlies American and Israeli policies, is racist and profoundly mistaken. As long as such dangerous illusions reign, innocents will continue to die in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Israel." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15811 Talking only to ourselves
Daniel Ben Simon - Haaretz - "Instead of speaking with our enemies we speak with our friends, not to say our patrons, the Americans, as though we were lowly vassals. We have adopted English almost as a mother tongue and we relate to Arabic as almost an existential threat. Thus far, the subordination of our lives, our values and our future to the Americans has not proved itself. We have never been as insecure as we are today. As part of our despair we are surrounding ourselves with a wall and turning the symbol of national rebirth into a fortified Jewish ghetto closed on all sides." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15822 American
support may no longer be enough
Martin Jacques -- The Guardian -- Israel`s long-term future lies in connecting with its Arab neighbours, not a western superpower thousands of miles away http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15766 Weekly
Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No. 32/2006, 10– 16 Aug. 2006
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15829 The
war to end the war
Yehonatan Gefen - Maariv - "How much time did our leaders, the deep thinkers, spend in asking themselves whether we would really achieve something by starting this war? How much? Thirty seconds? Five minutes? When you buy yourself a new t-shirt or decide which film to see tonight, you spend more time on thinking." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15868 Class war in the IDF Staff Sgt. (res.) Ori Berzak - Haaretz - "On the hills covered in pine and cypress trees in Israel, the fighting class is burying its dead and licking its wounds. The commanding class is granting another interview to reporters and waiting for the findings of the committees of inquiry." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15867 Not
Sparta - and just as well
Doron Rosenblum - Haaretz - "Israel is not Sparta, and this is a good thing. It was not established in order to be a spearhead against global Islam, or in order to serve as an alert squad for the Western world." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=15858 Occupation
Magazine http://www.kibush.co.il/ (articles and action news, look at it daily - includes a useful archive) ISM
website http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/ (informing
especially about joint Palestinian-Israeli-international 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) ----------------------------------------------- TOI-Billboard
is the 'ezine' of the independent THE OTHER ISRAEL bi-monthly peace newsletter,
existing since 1983, and published by its editors Adam Keller & Beate
Zilversmidt. NB: The Other
Israel May issue is now online with a selection of the articles: For a one
time hard-copy (free sample), send your address to: otherisr@actcom.co.il, Visit
also the archive under construction of issues since 1994 ----------------------------------------------- |
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