Put on the
light!
Here
follow the September 8, 2007 - press picks from different
sources, posted by TOI-staff on Occupation Magazine.(We
do the updating on Saturdays, but OM is updated daily, each day of the
week by a different
editor.)
While the mainstream news is totally dominated by the still
mysterious intrusion of Israeli fighter airplanes into Syrian territory we take
the freedom to focus our spotlight elsewhere. We don't feel like placing
our bet in the dangerous saber-rattling game, whose mayor purpose may be:
taking away the attention from other things, for example:
Sderot-Gaza.
Put on the
light!
Ariela Ringle-Hoffman - Yediot Aharonot - If there is
solution to the shooting of missiles, it is always based on agreements. In this
case, an Israel-Hamas agreement, an agreement with the elected Palestinian
government. Negotiations could not take place in Olmert`s official residence
under the glare of publicity, and there will be no embracing or kissing. But it
could well be conducted clandestinely, via all kinds of mediators and middle
men. It is possible to grab the offer - made by Hamas and never retracted - to
make a ten-year cease-fire. We can offer to give up our insistence over
imprisoning Gaza and tightly controlling and inspecting every matchbox which
goes in, to let the Gaza international airport be opened, to relax the naval
blockade. Tomorrow, the price will be higher. In short, put on the light!
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22209
`A
pessimist is an optimist with information`, Afif Safieh interview
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - Passing through the checkpoints on the way
to Ramallah and Jericho illustrated for Safieh the huge gap between the festive
promises Israel gave the Americans to ease up on residents of the territories
and improve Abu Mazen`s standing, and the sad reality in the territories.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22205
Palestinian
headlines (IMEMC) - Israeli raids & Gaza internal strife
Today`s
IMEMC news include items referring to the routine of the Israeli occupation
forces activities: Palestinian militant killed in army raid on the Gaza Strip, a
Hamas Public Relations official kidnapped ("arrested" in the official Israeli
terminology), raids and invasions of Jenin and Qabatiya and clashes with local
militias,invasion of Nablus targeting two charitable societies, Palestinian
woman gives birth at Israeli checkpoint. There is also much about the internal
Palestinian strife, especially the Fatah demonstrative open-air prayers in the
Gaza Strip and the Hamas crack-down on them.
http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/IMEMC.mht
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x Bil`in = Victory
Gush Shalom/ISM/Ali Waked-Ynet - 1,500 activists
arrive at West Bank village for rally celebrating decision to order Israel to
change route of separation fence. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says,
`This is victory of life and peace`. For the first time in many months, a Friday
in Bil`in passed without shooting and hurling of tear gas by the
army.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22197
But... Illegal neighborhood will not be
demolished
Aviram Zino - Ynet - ...as if to temper the happiness in
Bil`in [ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22199
Twilight
Zone /The school year that never started
Gideon Levy - Haaretz - In
addition to her two sons and one daughter, who were already imprisoned, bereaved
mother Najah al-Qarinawi now has two more in jail: Sadiq, who was seriously
wounded and subsequently arrested, and his brother Wafiq, who accompanied the
body of his stepbrother to the dead boy`s home in Israel and was arrested for
being in the country illegally. [This Levy column - about realities beyond
imagination - has an aspect of suspense - ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22200
CPT Hebron
Update: 25-31 August 2007
CPT - Activities in this period included a
visit to the new Public Relations officer of Hebron; psycho-drama enjoyment at
the Al Mahawer Center; meeting with the mayor of Qilqis to do advance planning
for the olive harvest; strategic planning committee work with local groups to
boost the economy of the Old City; area visit to the beleagured village of
Saeir; information on the diversion of water in the area; wedding parties; and
much more.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22198
Maxwell`s
Silver Hammer
Linda Ford and Ira Glunts - Counter-Punch - Leafing
through a fairly bland magazine I found that my alma mater, Syracuse University,
now supports continual and all-out war against a vaguely defined “terrorist”
enemy which includes condoning lethal collateral damage to civilians and teaming
up with Israeli military institutions in order to learn methods that they have
found “successful” against the Palestinians in the course of a 40-years old
occupation.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22207
Peace
through soccer?
Eli Ashkenazi - Haaretz - Hapoel Tel Aviv will
begin operating soccer schools next month in villages outside Nablus. "The goal
is for 2,500 children in five villages to be participating within a
year-and-a-half," says Meir Orenstein, the Education and Social Project manager
of Hapoel Tel Aviv. "We intentionally went to remote villages, where conditions
are hard - there`s no running water there, and the pitches where they`ll be
playing are just gravel surfaces," said Marshak, who as peacenik Kibbutz
organizer already has ties with these leaders in agricultural assistance
projects.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22206
UN OCHA
Protection of Civilians - Weekly Briefing 22 - 28 August
OCHA -
Gaza Strip: • The IDF killed seven Palestinians and injured nine others. One IDF
soldier was injured in an exchange of fire at Erez crossing. • 37 Qassam rockets
and 63 mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, including 23
Qassams towards Sderot. An additional seven mortars were fired towards Israeli
tanks stationed east of Khuza’a in the Khan Younis governorate. Four IAF air
strikes took place, including two at suspected rocket-launching sites. • IDF
coast guard vessels fired machineguns on two occasions at Palestinian fishing
boats [etc. etc. ed]
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/WeeklyBriefingNotes222_EN.pdf
