Don`t say we didn`t know #49
Amos Gvirtz - In his weekly series of life in the warzone which we call home Gvirtz focuses on concrete situations about which you don`t read elsewhere. This week he zooms in on a settler...
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A Missed Opportunity for Peace
Robert Novak - Washington Post - (...) no progress toward a two-state solution likely for the remainder of George W. Bush`s presidency.
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Israeli forces deliver notices of destruction to Palestinian refugees in Shu`fat (Jerusalem)
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh - Palestine News Network - In the dark of night of the first Pesach holiday troops entered East Jerusalem`s Shu`fat Refugee Camp to wake up families and tell them that they would be refugees again.
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Abducted soldier's father: Gov`t must learn from Britain
Jack Khoury - Haaretz - "It doesn`t interest me that according to the law, Hezbollah is defined as a terror organization," Shlomo Goldwasser told the 150 demonstrators who had gathered in Tel Aviv and marched along the Yarkon River as part of a cross-Israel journey in support of releasing the captive IDF soldiers. "We can talk to Hezbollah in order to return our sons home."
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Agriculture Ministry smuggling unit suspected of abuse
Mijal Grinberg - Haaretz - The unit, according to a ministry report from December 2005, was responsible for illegal destruction of produce from the territories, purchase of firearms against regulations, deviation from the unit`s defined fields of activity and a long list of other concerns.
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Torture: Read it in the Israeli press 
Miko Peled - The Electronic Intifada - "Mr. Hadar also touches on the issue of torture as part of the interrogation process. He mentions cases of interrogations where his agents lied in court about getting confessions through torture. "Since the suspects were Arabs the judges would always take our word over theirs" he says and continues to say that he found "Arabs were often glad to be slapped a few times" because it gave them an excuse to turn against their people and collaborate with the interrogators. He typically refrains from using the "P" word and refers to Palestinians only as Arabs or as terrorists."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19227

Palestinian hope held hostage - Economic sanctions are keeping Palestinians from building a life
Salam Fayyad - LA Times - "We do not aspire to be a beggar nation, dependent on the world to feed our people. We have the capacity, education and talent to build a thriving economy and a strong democracy. But we cannot do so while Israel seals our borders and withholds tax revenue it owes us, or while U.S. banking regulations prevent banks from handling government business."
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Ball now in Israel's court
Shabtai Gold - Jerusalem Post- "Amr Mousa, secretary-general of the Arab League, said in Riyadh that Israel should first accept the proposal and use it as a basis for negotiation, instead of simply criticizing and trying to force changes."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19189 

Here grow graves
Ory Yassur - Hagada Hasmalit - `"Ory Yassur`s best friend lost his ten-year-old daughter this week. I am sure this is of no interest to you as it was a Palestinian child who was shot in her head by a soldier." This was to be the introduction to an article Yassur wrote a month ago, after Abir Aramin was killed outside her school near Jerusalem. The article was submitted to ynet where Yassur is a columnist, but the editor of the Op-Ed section found it "too emotional" and decided not to publish it. Here it is.`
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The Jewish People are not my People. My People are Hashem and his Family from Bil`in.
Benny Ziffer - Ha'aretz - translation from Hebrew by Rann Bar-On - "There is nothing festive in this posting. Passover, shmassover, I hate the holidays because while we celebrate, while us Jews babble slogans about freedom, and fantasize that we are a miserable enslaved nation, we are in fact busy enslaving the Palestinian people. It`s become banal and boring to repeat this a thousand times, but in my eyes, the hypocrisy cries out to the heavens. [The Passover prayer] "Oh bread of poverty" is no longer the bread of poverty of Jews but of numerous Palestinian families in the Occupied Territories, who live off thirty or forty shekels the head of the household manages to scrounge together doing temporary jobs once every few days. "
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J-BIG members believe that Israel`s policies "constitute a betrayal of the best trends in Jewish ethical tradition" and operate a form of racism.  
Ruth Tenne - Palestine Chronicle - "The new group, J-BIG, is an outcome of the deep frustration Jewish peace activists feel towards the inaction displayed by the Jewish community and its liberal wing with regard to Israel`s repressive occupation of Palestinian land."
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Welcome the Palestinian National Unity Government and recognize it now!  EJJP European Jews for JustPeace
Urgent Appeal to Dr. Angela Merkel - "European Jews for a Just Peace calls on the President of the EU Council , Dr. Angela Merkel: Madame President, support the immediate recognition of the Palestinian Government and the cancellation of all economic, social and political restrictions which have been placed upon it. The EU council and all Governments of the European Union should recognize the opportunity to revive the peace process with Israel which has opened with the swearing in of the Palestinian Government.Time is precious. It must not be wasted." 
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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, No. 13/2007, 29 March – 04 April 2007 
PCHR - "Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue to Commit War Crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)" 
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Weekly Digest: Reports from Checkpoints, 25- 31.3.07 & MachsomWatch Monthly Summary, Maatria, February 2007 
MachsomWatch -- Sunday, 26.3.07, 15:45, Qalandya: “An argument broke out between the soldiers and a driver who lost his cool when the soldiers decided to examine the sandwich of his 10-year old son in the back seat. The car was surrounded by armed soldiers, while the frightened child shrank into the upholstery. The soldiers confiscated the driver`s ID and sent him to wait for the police in the CP bus station. Instead of a policeman, 2 civilian armed guards appeared and told the driver to come with them. Luckily, we had reported the incident, which led to the armed guards disappearing. All the problems were resolved when the policeman apologized to the driver for the behavior of the soldiers” 
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