Email updates March 3, 2007
TOI-Billboard in cooperation with Occupation Magazine

The weeklong hell created in Nablus does not attract too much attention in Israel where the public was once more treated to juicy scandals: a would-be minister caught red-handed lying on TV about her (non-existent] academic qualifications, and yet another corruption  revelation involving PM Olmert, who starts showing signs of collapse. This could lead to a change of government.   Virtually any change seems welcome with the rottenness of the system paralyzing the present leadership's good intentions - if any. 

Today's Occupation Magazine new articles:

 Three residents injured, two taken prisoner in Nablus
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - On Wednesday, the army announced that “Operation Hot Winter” was concluded in Nablus, but kept several roadblocks in the city and reinvaded it. [NB: This reinvasion in which Isam Al Bakry, 19, lost his left arm happens during the Purim Holiday Closure declared by Defence Minister Amir Peretz [ed.] 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19616

 We also target civilians
Idan Landau - Ynet - Why did the IDF impose a siege on the government hospital in Nablus and prevent wounded Palestinians from being taken there? Why does the IDF take over a school and turn it into a Shin Bet interrogation center? What was the sin committed by Anan al-Tabibi, who was shot in the head by a sniper while in his own backyard? Again, illogical questions. We have a war, and in war there is no reason to be strict when it comes to respecting life of civilians. The thing is, this is untrue. This is not a war, but rather, a unilateral invasion into a Palestinian town (...)
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19606

 ' When they took us… they did not even look at our IDs.’
Nablus youngster`s diary - palsolidarity.org - (...) they told all the women, children and those over 30 to go back home, and kept just us, the youth. They put some blindfolds on our eyes, and tied our hands behind our backs with some very painful plastic cuffs. After that, we were moved to some stores in the street, which were opened, destroyed and converted to prisons. (...)
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19617

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see also:
Jaffa protest march against Nablus invasion
Adam Keller report on a spontaneous protest Monday, 26.2
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19522

 After Nablus incursion Sinn Fein calls for sanctions
Sinn Fein Press Release - electronicintifada.net - This government should set the right example and send the right message by lifting sanctions on Palestine and imposing them on Israel." 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19613

Haaretz: Israel expects Arab League to improve the Saudi peace plan
Aluf Benn - Haaretz - [FM] Livni said that the original draft presented by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia "was, in my view, positive." That draft called for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders in exchange for peace and normalization with the entire Arab world. "Admittedly, the initiative spoke of the 1967 lines, but I only wish we were in a situation in which the conflict was just a border dispute," she added.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19611

 Abdullah: Israel must choose between `fortress,` peace
AP - Haaretz - Jordan`s King Abdullah II said Friday that Israel must choose between the mentality of Israel the fortress or living in peace and security with its neighbors.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19610

 Honest Broker / Jimmy Carter’s book stirs a critical debate
Philip Weiss - The American Conservative - For the first time since the State of Israel was created in 1948, a prominent American politician has publicly taken up the cause of the Arabs, describing Israel’s practices as oppressive. Such voices are common in Europe and in Israel itself. But they are uncommon [in America], where staunchly Zionist voices routinely assert that Israeli and American interests are identical, a view uniformly reflected in our politics and policies. The Carter groundswell seems to represent a real political threat to that claim.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19615

 CPT-Hebron: Team fasting in protest of West Bank closure
CPT-Hebron - The Hebron team will hold a short Lenten fast on Saturday 3 March and Sunday 4 March in protest of the Israeli closure of the West Bank. The Israeli Forces have closed the West Bank for four days, from Thursday midnight to Monday midnight, citing `security for Israeli citizens` during to the Jewish holiday of Purim as the reason.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19614

 Former Meretz leader decries 1967 war crimes
Roee Nahmias - Ynet News - Yossi Sarid tells Egyptian daily that killing of unarmed Egyptian soldiers by Israeli army after 1967 war is war crime. [But of course there is a `but` - ed]
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19618

 Golani troops stage huge revolt against commander
Yaakov Katz/Felix Frish - Jerusalem Post/Maariv - During the Lebanon war, Battalion 51 lost eight soldiers during one day of fighting against Hizbullah in the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbail.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19612

More articles of the past week are easy accessible through the "categories" of the archive of www.kibush.co.il:

<Documents and Facts>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20&section=1

<Commentary on current events>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20&section=8

<Opposing Occupation>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20&section=5

<Life under occupation>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20&section=3

and there is more, all at the top of www.kibush.co.il

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