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Not only in war you
failed
Email updates May 5, 2007
TOI-Billboard in cooperation with
Occupation
Magazine
The
uncertainty of how long this government will stay on; the lack of
a good alternative; the reality of political problems continuing to be
unsolved...
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Hereafter a choice from past week's
articles
Struggle
Not only in war you failed - also in
peace-making
Meir Shalev - Yediot Aharonot - [Translation of speech
at May 3 rally] "Forty years of occupation are forty years of no education, no
health, no personal security, no welfare, and also no proper military training -
and the result is all too visible. But the urgent need for a vision to guide us
to a better future is something which your successors will have to address, not
you. From you we expect and demand just this: go home. Goodbye."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19804
Outsmarting the Occupation in
Bil’in
Martinez - ISM - Thirty demonstrators turned in a direction
where the army did not expect them, walking between two barbed wires, and
soldiers were caught off guard. Officers ordered the soldiers not to shoot, and
negotiated with the demonstrators, and as a compromise allowed them to reach the
point where they had been forbidden to step in the past month and more. A small
victory, but a victory nevertheless.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19801
Solidarity concert brings together Jewish,
Palestinian neighbors
Daphna Berman - Haaretz - Pulled together by
the Arab-Jewish Center of Jabal Mukaber, which operates under the slogan
"neighbors to neighbors," the concert and reception drew some 300 people, half
Jewish and half Palestinian. "The wall would separate people from their
families, the center of their lives, their source of livelihood and their
medical facilities," said Hillel Bardin, a resident of Talpiyot-Arnona and one
of the event organizers. "We`re seeking an alternative route around the village
rather than through it. If security can be achieved without destroying these
people`s lives, it is certainly preferable."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19799
Painted peace activists entangle illegal
separation fence in Al Numan, Bethlehem district
Polly Bangoriad -
IMEMC - Today, peaceful protestors marched from both sides of the illegal
separation fence between the southern West Bank villages of Al Qhass and Al
Numan. They met at the razor wire-topped fence to hold a non-violent
demonstration against the illegal Israeli barrier from both sides.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19795
more in Opposing
Occupation http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=5
Occupation reality
Bushra`s final exam
Gideon Levy - Haaretz -
"You killed my daughter!," Ruqiya screamed at the soldiers, pounding on the
sides of the armored vehicles, but no one came out to help. She told the
soldiers the house was unlocked and they could go enter to search for the wanted
man or to see the body of his dead sister, but no one went in. "Why didn`t they
enter the house? Why didn`t they tell us to come out right away? Had they called
us before, we would have come right out."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19792
Israeli tycoon Idan Ofer: joint business - a way of
fostering peace
Simon Clark - bloomberg.com - ``If I was a
Palestinian businessman, I wouldn`t live in the territories,`` Ofer, 51, says.
``How much can you suffer and hope all the time?``
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19802
PCHR Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights
Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 April -02 May
2007)
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report No.
17/2007-"..26 April 2007, IOF shot dead a member of the Palestinian Presidential
Guard (Force 17) and wounded 2 of his colleagues in al-Bireh town in the West
Bank. Those security men were chasing a suspicious vehicle when IOF soldiers
positioned in the vicinity of “Pssigot” settlement fired at them. On Wednesday,
2 May 2007, IOF shot dead a Palestinian civilian and arrested his brother in the
northern Gaza Strip. IOF fired at the two brothers when they were collecting
metals. "
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19765
more in Life Under
Occupation http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=3
Commentary
The Livni-Rice Plan: towards a just peace or
apartheid?
Jeff Halper-ICAHD - "In that way the Palestinians get
their state, albeit with “provisional borders,” Israel expands onto 82-85% of
the country while still conforming to the Road Map and apartheid – in the guise
of a “two-state solution” – becomes political reality. And that’s where we stay
forever. "
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19768
Remember the siege
Yehuda Litani - Ynet -
There were numerous signs – the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, the First
Lebanon War – but we didn’t pay heed: More settlements, more outposts, more land
expropriation. Next month too, many will be quick to mark 40 years of
"emancipation" of the Territories and the "unification" of Jerusalem while
millions of Palestinians are still subjected to humiliating occupation. (...) It
is the occupation that has transformed the job of the "Israel Defense Force"
into a "police force"– with soldiers at checkpoints, apprehending wanted
persons, searching for explosives laboratories and serving as prison wardens at
detainee camps – instead of training for battle against Arab armies.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19796
The price for Israel
Ayman El-Amir - Al
Ahram -"There was a time when the US edged towards an "even-handed" policy in
the Middle East. In the mid-1970s, the US went as far as voting for Security
Council resolutions that branded Israeli settlements in the occupied territories
as "illegal and an obstacle to peace"."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19763
Blessings of war / "Wars Don`t
Just Happen"
Reuven Pedatzur- Haaretz - "Every successful war has
made it that much easier to choose the use of power in the next war." "...one of
the central concepts of the Israeli "military culture" is that there is no
political option on which Israel can base its security. The conclusion is thus
that Israel has only the military option, which is regarded as an inevitable
necessity. "
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19767
Above the Law
Adalah - Newsletter - "The
General Security Services (GSS or “Shabak”) alleges that former Arab MK Dr. Azmi
Bishara is guilty of one of the most serious crimes in Israeli law: assisting
the enemy during wartime. The punishment for this crime is the death penalty or
life imprisonment. Dr. Bishara explained in a recent interview that the GSS is
trying to twist regular discussions he held with his friends and colleagues
during the war on Lebanon last summer, wire-tapped by the GSS, into a serious
crime."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19754
The commentators`
betrayal
Amnon Levy - Ynet - "Just like a herd running after its
shepherd, the press chased our blind leadership. We can count on one hand the
journalists who dared object to the war. The overwhelming majority of Israeli
journalists preferred to give up on the role of "guard dog." Instead of barking,
they preferred to suck up. Instead of criticizing, they preferred to advise.
They preferred to forget that patriotism doesn`t only mean to push forward; at
times it means to yell out: Stop!"
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=19750
more in Commentary on current
events http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=8
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articles of years can be traced in the archive of www.kibush.co.il
see also <Documents
and Facts>
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=1
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