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Occupation rituals and mind infection TOI-Billboard, October 1, 2006The Other Israel's email updates --Introduction _______________________________ *** We are now in the days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. During the Jewish Holiday season the Palestinians of the West Bank are hermetically closed up - in the routine effort at such a date of preventing terrorist attacks - occupation and oppression becoming part of the ritual. Chief-of-Staff Halutz meanwhile announces stepped up Gaza action - and of course, he doesn't have in mind a desperately needed humanitarian campaign. *** Here follows
TOI's selection of this week's Occupation Magazine's daily picks
analysis and comment:
Education or mind infection?
Nurit Peled-Elhanan - "We must all ask our children`s forgiveness for not being more alert, for not fighting hard enough to keep our promises for a better world, for not refusing the evil viruses before and for letting them be the victims of the horrible, mental infection we are all suffering from, to look at their innocent, astonished, disillusioned small faces and ask ourselves: why does that streak of blood rip the petal of their cheek???" (Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In September 1997, Nurit`s daughter Smadar was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber. She and her family are members of the Palestinian and Israeli Bereaved Families for Peace) http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16576 Muhammad`s sword
Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom/Mediamonitors - The story about "spreading the faith by the sword" is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims - the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16486 Time to talk peace
Shulamit Aloni -- YNET -- "Many peace-making windows were opened over the years. We hindered all of them, because we coveted the whole of the Territorie [...] Now, another possibility for dialogue has opened. Yet our government is again turning its back on it" http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16476 Nearing the point of no return
Ghassan Khatib - Bitterlemons - While it may be true that the guidelines agreed on by Abbas and Haniyeh for the national unity government were not identical with the Quartet`s positions, the fact that the agreement moved in that direction was a sign of progress that needed to be appreciated and encouraged http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16570 I went to Nablus
Sonja Karkar -- IMEMC News -- "The old city of Nablus has been assaulted beyond belief. Every night the tanks roll into town and rip the awnings from the shops in the narrow streets as they pass. Every night, another family is violated by Israeli soldiers - the men blindfolded, hands bound and taken away, the women left to weep while trying to comfort terrified children" http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16477 The human catastrophe of Gaza is a time
bomb
Jan Egeland & Jan Eliasson - Le Figaro/ThruthOut - Access by air, sea, and land has been virtually cut off for Gaza. The movements of goods and peoples have practically ceased. Supplies of electricity and water, interrupted by Israeli Defense Forces attacks on electric power stations, is irregular and insignificant. Civilian infrastructures have been affected. Gaza today remains dependent on outside sources for its food and commercial supplies. Hygienic conditions are deteriorating, while access to potable water is inadequate. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16560 Israel should not be dismissing de facto recognition by
Hamas
Yossi Beilin - Ynet - [Meretz leader Yossi Beilin begins to recognize that business can be done with Hamas] http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16556 The U.S. must look to its own Mideast interests
Robert Malley & Aaron David Miller - International Herald Tribune - "For a U.S. administration that has essentially deserted the Arab-Israeli arena and in effect followed Israel`s lead, this does not bode well." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16510 Weekly Summary, 21 September 2006 - 27 September
2006
Daniel Breslau - The danger of Palestinian unity is averted - Continuing violence in Gaza - Hitting civilian infrastructure - One Hamas minister freed http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16578 action related, alerts and reports: Slichot ceremony - atonement for sins of war
Yesh Gvul/Rabbis for Human Rights email - "For the sin that we have sinned before You in carrying out a futile war and in committing major violations of the laws of war. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16568 Olive harvest campaign 2006 gets underway
ISM Nablus - palsolidarity.org - Although not an ideal starting-date, an olive farmer from the Palestinian village of Azmut and his family who own 150 dunums of land partitioned by an Apartheid settler-only road, decided to start harvesting a few days ago. They fear that the Israeli colonists of nearby Elon Moreh will otherwise steal the olives from the trees closest to them. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16564 Bil’in plans to build hotel on Israeli occupied village
land
ISM report - Villagers erected a 5?3 meter sign-post advertising the forthcoming hotel called `Falastin`, and intend to submit a planning application to the Israeli Civil Administration which is responsible for civilian matters on occupied Palestinian land. The village land is behind the illegal apartheid barrier that the Israeli military has enforced on the village. The sign has been erected in the illegal settlement of Matityahu East near to the apartments Bil`in villagers tried to move into in July. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16559 Palestinian land owners: Evacuate the outpost Migron from our
land
Peace Now - "the Palestinian owners of the land in question are threatening to appeal the Supreme Court in order to force the government to evacuate this outpost from its land." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16501 Counter campaign against the Israeli propaganda machine towards the Irish embassy Ofer Neiman - Please contact the Irish embassy, and let them know that sanctions against the occupation are justified, and that the Irish government should do much more to oppose the current racist and violent Israeli policies. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16569 Tell Bush: Make Rice`s visit to the Mideast
count!
Brit Tzedek v’Shalom - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaves for the Middle East on Sunday in an effort to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Please contact President Bush today and urge him to instruct Sec. Rice to make this visit count. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16575 the visas campaign: U.S. Consul concerned about Israeli refusals to issue
visas
IMEMC - The U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem Jake Walles expressed concern about the continuous Israeli denial of entry to several internationals including, Americans, and Palestinian Americans. (...) The Consulate has developed a form for U.S. citizens to register their treatment at Israeli border crossings and to document these cases of denial of entry. In addition, the Consulate and Embassy provided hotlines for those experiencing difficulties at Israeli ports of entry including Ben Gurion Airport and the Allenby Bridge. http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16554 Israel restricts ‘foreign’ Palestinians
Charmaine Seitz-aljazeera.net-"Israeli human rights workers say the tightening of visa rules is an additional form of pressure on the Palestinian government. But Yehezkiel Lien, research director of ... B`Tselem says Israel`s main reason for freezing Palestinian residency petitions is the "demographic consideration" or the desire to maintain a Jewish majority between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River." " http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16549 The sad story of my friend Sam
Gershon Baskin - Jerusalem Post - "The one place where Sam doesn`t have Israeli friends is in the Civil Administration - and that`s where he needs them more than ever." http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16511 ...a bit more lighthearted: No writing on the wall
Danny Rubinstein - Haaretz - "There is hardly a visitor to the
fence around Jerusalem who is not amazed by one of the biggest projects ever
undertaken by the State of Israel, and which seems like madness."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=16506
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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. N.B. The Other
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