Dreaming of vegetables
TOI-Billboard,
January 6, 2007
The Other Israel email updates in cooperation with Occupation
Magazine
Dahamesh Village near Ramla in
imminent danger of destruction
Nori Al-Okbi - Bedouin Rights
Defence Association - The houses of a thousand people were given demolition
notices, and the entire village is in imminent danger of being demolished and
completely erased. Ramla Mayor Yoel Lavi has declared that “The solution” for
this village is “Two D-9 bulldozers, accompanied by two companies of Border
Guards” (Riot Police). Once these become available, “The bulldozers will move
freely, from one side of the village to another”.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18447
Tali
Fahima: `My crime was to protest at Israeli assassinations`
Conal
Urquhart/ Tim Butcher - The Guardian/Telegraph - For nine months of her
incarceration she was kept in isolation, without access to any distractions such
as books or television. "I used to lie on my bed and think about Jenin, the
people I met, and wonder how things were going there. I never get bored on my
own," Tali Fahima said.(...) "My first crime was that I refused to work with
Shin Bet, the second was that I insisted on going to see the Palestinians and
the third was that I protested against the Israeli policy of assassination,"
Tali Fahima told the Guardian in her first interview since her release.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18445
Mubarak: either demilitarized
region or Egypt goes nuclear too
Roee Nahmias - Ynet - "We said that
the region should be demilitarized of mass destruction weapons and that we don’t
want nuclear weapons in the region, or else we would be forced to also bring in
nuclear weapons so that we are not attacked at any time," the president
said.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18444
Bil`in protest - against Wall and
against Palestinian infighting
ISM/IMEMC - Jabril al Joub, of
Fateh, commended the unanimity amongst Palestinians fostered within Bil’in, and
cited the death of Yasser Arafat as significant catalyst toward the current
political crisis. Kais Abu Leyla, also of Fateh, echoed the call for unity
between Islamic and nationalist parties, to put an end to factionalism.(...)
Israeli soldiers took positions at several locations along the expanse of the
primary fence and immediately opened fire. Several Bil’in residents were
injured, including at least one who was taken to the hospital for treatment. An
Israeli activist also received first aid after suffering burns from a tear gas
canister.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18443
Detainees in Hadarim call for an
end to internal clashes
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Palestinian
detainees imprisoned at the Hadarim Israeli detention facility called on the
Palestinian factions to end all sorts of internal clashes and violence. The
detainees said that the factions should resolve their differences peacefully
instead of resorting to violence. The detainees who are confined to solitary
said that all detainees in every detention facility will carry a hunger strike
on January 14 and several strikes in February and March.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18441
Decision time
Yaakov
Katz - Jerusalem Post - "Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh told The Jerusalem
Post in November that sanctions were unlikely to work and that Israel must be
prepared to thwart Teheran`s drive for nuclear capability "at all costs," even
in a preemptive strike. Since then other leaders have added their voices,
including Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres who recently declared: "Iran too can
be destroyed."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18440
The
IDF and my daughter`s hamburger
Sam Bahour - "Well, we were in the
center of Ramallah yesterday afternoon, at 3:40pm when the almighty Israeli
military decided, again, that it was time to wreak havoc on our city. I should
not really complain since what happened in Ramallah yesterday happens across the
West Bank and Gaza regularly.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18439
Sad
holiday - a report from within on how Palestinians survive
Adel
Shadid - Thousands live in such dire conditions that they can only dream of
vegetables and bread; they pass whole long days without any food, pass the cold
mountain winter without heating, lighting candles in order to save electricity,
walking on foot or riding donkeys in order to save travelling fares. The number
of the poor and hungry is ever growing. The unemployment rate among Palestinians
is enormous, and in practice it can be said that the entire Palestinian people
is unemployed.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18436
If I
were a Palestinian
Uri Blau - Haaretz - "If I were in the
Palestinians` situation, I would make our lives bitter. I would not blow up
women and children. I`m totally opposed to that. But yes, I would fight against
the foreign occupier. When you take a person and put him up against the wall and
don`t leave him many options, then what do you want him to do? (...) In this
battle soldiers are legitimate targets. My father was in the Etzel [Irgun].
There was the British occupier and he fought against it. The Palestinian is
fighting against the Israeli occupier. When you come and call someone a
`terrorist,` the definition is totally subjective. I consider the Etzel fighters
freedom fighters, and the British considered them terrorists..."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18435
The
Shuhada Street opened? Not quite
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - senior IDF
officers discovered that the closure of Old Hebron`s Shuhada Street to
Palestinians had been done "by mistake." The mistake has now lasted for six
years. Activists from the Israeli organization Children of Abraham and from the
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) accompanied Palestinians trying to
benefit from the army discovering its mistake. The results were rather
predictable.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18432
For articles of the past week, lookinto the "categories"
of www.kibush.co.il,
such as:
Commentary on current events
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=8
especially recommended:
Shulamit Aloni: Indeed there
is Apartheid in Israel
Siege &
Checkpoints
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=4
especially recommended:
Amira Hass: Marking the
territory
etc.