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Farmers near Bethlehem call upon Israelis, internationals: help save our fruit trees Trees threatened to make place for settler sewage system (in addition to Wall confiscations). If you can come, contact Adar 0525-444866 Calls for action - from Rabbis for Human Rights Agricultural work . Needed volunteers for next week. Please help out. . To sign up please call the office: 02-6482757, or Rabbi Arik Ascherman: 050-5607034, or Rabbi Yehiel Greniman: 050-2110639. (Not on Shabbat) If volunteers sign up for Sunday before Shabbat we avoid the need for last minute recruiting on Saturday night. IN LIGHT OF THE NEWEST WAVE OF HOME DEMOLITIONS, WE ARE AGAIN IN NEED OF VOLUTNEERS WHO ARE WILL TRY TO ARRIVE AT SHORT NOTICE. PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE 02-6482757 OR ICAHD TEL: 02-6245560, FAX: 02-6221530, E-MAIL: INFO@ICAHD.ORG Tours of Hebron - from Children of Abraham & Breaking the Silence Hebron is one of the most problematic places in the occupied territories. It is the only place where a settlement lies in the heart of a Palestinian city... The next tours will be on Friday, June 15 and Friday, June 29. We will leave Jerusalem at 8.30 and we will be back around 3 p.m. Participation costs 40 NIS. For further questions and registration please contact Silvana: silvana.hogg@ gmx.ch / 054 803 24 28 Political tour in the Old City, Jerusalem - 17.5.07 In the week of Yom Yerushalaim, while Israel will be celebrating 40 years of a "united" Jerusalem, PEACE NOW invites you to discover the Old City from a different perspective.

19/05/2007 Bombarding Gaza in the abscence of anti-rocket system protecting people in Sderot. [1] JERUSALEM POST- Peretz: limited operations [i.e.: bombardments] to continue in the coming days [2] GHASSAN BANOURA- IMEMC - in Beit Hanoun village one killed, evacuating the injured with great difficulty due to the continued shelling. [3] B`TSELEM to Israeli Defense Minister: the government cannot compensate for its failure to protect residents of Sderot by intentionally causing suffering in Gaza. Gaza: Who`s fighting whom? Khaled Abu Toameh - Jerusalem Post - Some Hamas and Fatah operatives in the Gaza Strip have accused followers of PA National Security Adviser Muhammad Dahlan of instigating the latest cycle of violence. They claimed that Dahlan`s supporters in Fatah and some of the PA security forces were trying to drag Hamas into an all-out confrontation with the help of the US and Israel. Gaza Gush Shalom - Haaretz - We have isolated Gaza. We have starved Gaza. We have expropriated ... SOS from Palestine Khaled Amayreh - Al-Ahram - The worst incident in the latest round of infighting occurred Tuesday morning when anonymous gunmen attacked a Presidential Guard vehicle carrying a dozen Fatah security personnel near the Mintar border crossing with Israel. Eight people were killed. Nearby Israeli soldiers opened fire on two gunmen as they were fleeing the scene, killing one and injuring the other. Hamas denied any link with the attack and accused the Israeli army of being responsible. Fatah blamed the ambush on Hamas. Highway to hell B. Michael - Ynet - (...) a checkpoint has been set up on the "Fabric of Life" road. A long row of cars are lined up. There`s a long line beyond the checkpoint as well. This is the unique military interpretation of the judge`s words on "free and uninterrupted movement." And as is customary on the "Fabric of Life" road, people are also "detained for questioning". It’s a type of local punishment, the fate of Palestinians who soldiers take a disliking to. Out of bounds Lily Galili - Haaretz - Despite the blue Israeli identity cards held by residents of Shuafat Refugee Camp [which was unilaterally annexed to Jerusalem in 1967 ed.], the Israeli authorities have now decided that they are not in fact Jerusalemites. Israeli professors visit U.K., trying to avert academic boycott Assaf Uni/ Charlotte Hall - Haaretz - A growing wave of British initiatives to boycott Israel includes earlier efforts for an academic boycott; last month`s decision by Britain`s National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli products; the Anglican Church`s decision to divest from companies doing business with the Israel Defense Forces; a demand for Israel`s expulsion from the World Medical Association by 130 British doctors; and boycott calls by leading British architects. Israeli academics are, however, specially concerned by the "silent" boycott phenomenon. Who’s normal here? The IDF was quick to investigate the incident where IDF soldiers recently attacked protestors on Mount Hebron. There was a indeed a problem: the fact that the event was caught on camera and aired in news broadcasts. The courageous company commander suddenly looked more like a cruel militarist. He forgot to wait for the media to leave (closed military zone, state security, you know). This was indeed a professional hitch. Desert Generation - exhibition by Israeli and Palestinian Artists IPCRI - On Tuesday, June 5, 2007, the 40th anniversary of the 1967 War, Israeli and Palestinian artists who oppose the occupation and continue to call for its immediate and peaceful end, will open a joint exhibition at the Artists House, Jerusalem, which will two weeks later move the Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv. The hundreds of images in the exhibition represent a generation of Israeli and Palestinian artists doomed to waste their best years in the desert of the occupation. [As the "Desert Generation" in the Bible had to spend forty years wandering the desert, and did not live to see the Promised Land. A.K.] Canadian bookstore chain boycotted for supporting IDF soldiers Wendy Alnuweiri/Itamar Eichner - CAIA/Y-Net - On Saturday, May 12th, the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign officially launched a boycott against Chapters and Indigo Bookstores. Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz - majority owners of Chapters and Indigo bookstores - are the founders of the "Heseg Foundation for Lone Soldiers," which provides scholarships and other financial support to soldiers in the Israeli Military on the basis of need and military `achievement`. For previous articles since 2004 go to respective sections recommended earlier articles Stuart Reigeluth: East Jerusalem: no state in sight      Amira Hass: Words instead of actions     Joharah Baker: What are the Palestinians Thinking?      Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner: The Death of Samir Dari      Donald Macintyre: Gaza fighting raises fears for unity deal      B`Tselem, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel: Where Silence Reigns: Israel`s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron      Yacov Ben Efrat: The Leader Israel Deserves      Haaretz: Forty years of `unity`   `