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Email updates April 1, 2007
TOI-Billboard in cooperation with
Occupation
Magazine
This was the week that we saw
another opportunity being missed. The Olmert government does not like the
inclusion of the Right of Return. But the Riyadh offer speaks of a "just and
agreed solution". What more can Olmert wish? Or is all
this rather an excuse because he doesn't really want to - or cannot
- get out of the West
Bank.
Today's headlines www.kibush.co.il
For
Hebrew information www.kibush.co.il/index_h.asp
Hereafter a choice from the past
days
Orly Azoulay reporting from Riyadh
Orly Azoulay -
Yediot Aharonot/Y-Net - The representative of the Saudi Information Ministry,
who picked us up in his car, asked one of the journalists if he knew anything
about an Israeli journalist that was due to arrive. "She very much wanted to but
was not granted a visa," the representative said. The journalist burst into
laughter: "She received a visa and an invitation from the Saudi foreign
minister." The official opened his eyes widely and went on to ask when the
journalist would arrive and where she was. "Here she is, sitting in your car,"
the journalist pointed to me. Had his seat not had a backrest he would have
fallen over. He looked at me, remained silent for a moment and then said:
"Welcome to Riyadh. Welcome, you have nothing to worry about; we shall all look
after you. You are our guest".
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19102
Tom Friedman`s suggestions to King Abdallah
Thomas
Friedman/Abd-al-Bari Atwan - New York Times/Al-Quds al-Arabi - The articles of
Thomas Friedman have long since ceased to be regarded as merely the ideas of a
single columnist and came to be seen as unofficial policy statements by
significant forces in the US corridors of power. So was his recent article with
various proposals and suggestions to Sadi Arabia`s King Abdallah, to which Arab
commentator Abd-al-Bari Atwan takes a strong exeption.
Pussycat
Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom - Julius Caesar, as
is well known, reported to the Roman Senate "I came. I saw. I conquered."
Condoleezza could report to the US Senate: "I came. I saw. I capitulated." Who
to? To a failing Israeli prime minister, whose popularity rating is approaching
zero.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19147
Free Hussam Shaheen: A statement from the family of imprisoned
peace activist
Ma`an Bethlehem - Hussam Shaheen, arrested by
Israeli soldiers at Ramallah on January 28, 2004, has been outspoken in support
of peace and reconciliation. Now the Israeli military prosecutor asks for him to
get 24 years` imprisonment.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19131
For a change, no army attack on anti-Wall protest at Um
Salamuna
George Rishmawi - IMEMC - Around two hundred protestors
marched in the village of Um Salamuna, south of Bethlehem to protest the
construction of the wall on their land and to commemorate the 31 anniversary of
Land Day. Protestors, including Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis,
carried signs and banners and chanted slogans calling for the removal of the
Wall, describing it as land theft that is killing the Palestinian life. No
clashes erupted with the soldiers as the protestors remained nonviolent.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19107
Thousands of Arab Israelis stage mass Land Day rally in Sakhnin
Roee Nahmias - Y-Net -In addition to thousands of Arab citizens,
the mass march through the city drew Arab Israeli MKs, Arab community leaders,
and Jewish left-wing activists such as Tali Fahima who had been in
administrative detention for contacting a Fatah military commander in the West
Bank.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19103
CERD`s wishlist concerning a racism free
Israel
Adalah Newsletter - UN Committee Urges Israel to Revoke the
Citizenship Law, Dismantle the Wall, Bind the Jewish National Fund to
Anti-Discrimination Principles, and Recognize the Unrecognized Villages
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19097
European Views of the Middle East / Perception, Prejudice,
Projection
John Bunzl - "Branding hostilities emanating from the
Middle East automatically or intentionally as Anti-Semitic is dangerous because
doing so would banalize and trivialize genuine Anti-Semitism. It would, I
suggest, also constitute a misjudgement of hostility by Muslims. Anti-Semitic
prejudice and bigotry of the Christian-European variant is not driving the big
majority of Muslims and not even the few perpetrators of violence. The hostility
toward Jews is rather a regrettable by-product of more recent events in the
Middle East and the world over.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19096
Billboards for peace (you are supposed to sign a
petition)
Avaaz.org - Today in a moment of rare hope for the Middle
East, the Arab League is making a serious peace offer to Israel in Riyadh. The
international community is rallying in support -- but by refusing to address
core issues like the 1967 borders, Israel risks throwing away this chance.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19151
Risks and rewards in Ramallah (interview with Sam Bahour)
Sharmila Devi - Financial Times - Sam Bahour has a warm manner and
an infectious laugh. But beneath the avuncular exterior lie a sharp intelligence
and a steady nerve that have helped the US-born Palestinian businessman survive
since he moved to the West Bank in 1994. "If I wasn`t optimistic, I would pack
up my bags and go back to the US," he says with a laugh.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19141
News and updates from the June 5 Initiative
Gershon
Baskin/Hanna Siniora - IPCRI - The June 5 Initiative, a grass roots enterprise
is organizing events in Palestine, Israel and the rest of the world in support
of Israeli-Palestinian, Two States for Two Peoples, one Peace. Peace must be
with justice – end of conflict, end of occupation. Events will be held in cities
around the world during the week of June 5 (June 5-11, 2007). These events will
include marches, demonstrations, seminars, peace concerts, exhibitions. Etc.
under the slogans listed above. It is important to begin to meet with the other
people in your city that are engaged. We are working to make contact between all
of you. It is true that there are already similar initiatives that have been
launched around the world for the same week. We are trying to cooperate and
coordinate wherever possible.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19140
Global Day of Action - June 9-10, 2007 - The World Says NO to
Israeli Occupation!
ICNP - People across the globe will come
together on those days to demand an end to occupation and the realization of the
inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to
self-determination and the right to establish an independent, sovereign
Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. We will insist that our own
governments stop providing military, economic, diplomatic and corporate support
for Israel`s illegal occupation, and instead create new foreign policies that
will support an end to occupation, equal rights for all, and a comprehensive,
just and lasting peace.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19139
More articles 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§ion=1
<Commentary
on current events>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=8
<Opposing
Occupation>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=5
<Life under occupation>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=3
and there is more, all at the top of www.kibush.co.il
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