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Here are
the headlines
posted today
by TOI's
editors at www.kibush.co.il
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Next week no TOI-Billboard as we will
be preparing the going to print of The Other
Israel
Palestinian news in
brief
IMEMC - The International journalists Association condemned
Israeli for attacking journalists / More Druze refuseniks / Five Hamas members
abducted in an Israeli invasion to Tubas / Villagers of Wadi el-Neiss protest
against land confiscation etc.
http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/IMEMC.htm
Report: Syria removing
military checkpoints in Golan
Jerusalem Post - Israel is "concerned"
that Syria`s decision to remove military checkpoints on the road to Kuneitra on
the Syrian side of the Golan Heights could be a preparation for war, the Arab
newspaper Al-Hiyat al-Jedidia reported Saturday.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21024
Give
Hamas a chance
Dror Zeevi - Yediot Aharonot - Hamas is evidently in
distress and its leaders are signaling that they would be prepared for a
compromise in exchange for opening crossings and transferring supplies. Sources
close to Hamas insist that there is a willingness among Hamas leaders to advance
a long-term ceasefire. Israel is currently enjoying clear tactical superiority
and it appears that it is holding the entire deck of cards. The easy solution is
to lead the area to almost total collapse, or alternately, as army officers and
Knesset members have been saying recently, "to allow them to keep their heads
above water." However, it would be a mistake to boycott Hamas. The rational mode
of action would be to listen to what its leadership has to say and to try and
reach an agreement with them.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21020
Stonewalling in
Ramallah
Khaled Amayreh - Al-Ahram - The Ramallah-based Palestinian
"emergency government" continues to adamantly reject any rapprochement with
Hamas, despite growing calls to this effect by a number of key Arab and Muslim
countries as well as Palestinian intellectuals.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21019
Keeping on a steady course
to Apartheid
Jeff Halper - ICAHD - Israel’s end-game, explicit and
unruffled by the recent turmoil on the ground, is clear. It is laid out in
detail in the Convergence Plan” Olmert presented to a joint session of the
American Congress in May, 2006, based on Sharon’s plan of “cantonization.” With
minor adjustments, it constitutes the plan Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
is quietly advancing with the help of Condoleezza Rice, and it is accepted in
its entirety by Ehud Barak, the newly-elected leader of the Labor Party, who
played a key role in its formulation.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21018
Israel Seems Determined to Dig its own
Grave
Patrick Seale - Al-Hayat - The Hamas victory in Gaza is surely
a clear signal that an Israeli change of direction is urgently needed. All
Israel`s efforts to break the democratically-elected Hamas government have
failed. Its policies of boycott, siege and starvation, of bombing and shelling,
of extra-judicial murder, of withholding tax revenues, of the systematic
destruction of Palestinian institutions have served only to create a time-bomb
of hunger, despair and defiance on Israel`s flank. Yet Israel appears to have
learned nothing. Instead of seeking peace with the Arabs - instead of seizing
their outstretched hand - it persists in rejecting all peace overtures.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21016
History Erased
Meron Rapoport - Haaretz - During the 1950s, the nascent state and
IDF set about destroying historical sites left behind by other cultures,
particularly Muslims. This policy was so indiscriminate that even synagogues
were destroyed. [summary Haaretz editors].
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21023
Nablus:
75 Olive Trees Planted Successfully in Iraq Burim
ISM - Having
obtained trees with the assistance of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief
Committees and the Tanweer Organization in Nablus, international activists
worked in conjunction with local farmers to plant the trees. The planting
finished without any disturbance by the settlers or IOF who were within view of
the operation.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21022
Bilin and south Bethlehem: Anti-Wall
Update
1) ISM - At Bil`in, the 70 peaceful protesters included
Palestinian members of the community, Israelis, and international observers from
the International Solidarity Movement and the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity
Campaign. 2) Ilan Shalif - The 126th Friday demonstration in Bil`in (...) the
only difference from the demos of the last few Fridays was the less friendly
wind.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21017
Gaza
Situation Report | 28 June - 5 July 2007
OCHA - Concerns are growing
for an estimated 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza who cannot return to Gaza as a
result of the closure of the Rafah crossing. A UN interagency mission was
dispatched to Cairo to assess the situation.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21015
Peace Now report: Despite
huge unused land reserves settlements build beyond state-allocated land
Amos Harel - Haaretz - West Bank settlements have been allocated
huge amounts of land, but use very little of it, according to a Peace Now
report.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=21025
earlier this
week:
Vanunu
Gideon Spiro - general email - Mordechai was found guilty and sent to prison
not because he reveiled secrets, but because he was talking to foreign
journalists, and by this violating an administrative order given by one of the
generals of the Israeli army.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20958
1967
A landmark
article by Gadi Algazi, political activist and historian. "The settlements are
no added bonus to the occupation, no accident that occurred under pressure from
the Messianic and nationalistic right; they are its heart and soul and its
raison d’?tre...The far-reaching political project of the settlement movement
after 1967 was not confined to dispossessing the Palestinians and taking their
land; it was no less an attempt to bring about change in Israeli society – to
bring it back to its roots, to make all of it, if not directly than by proxy, a
militant settler society, in perpetual war with the Arab East... Stopping the
settlement project is hence the most important political task of all the
opponents of the occupation."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20936
