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Here follow the September 15, 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.)

...but first an article of an earlier day which makes a significant point about the short-sightedness of arrogance.
The advancing ethnic cleansing
Victoria Buch - kibush.co.il - While the leaders talk of declarations and principles without dates attached, the one thing which goes on non-stop is the creaping dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians. The author thinks that ultimately this is a suicidal policy: "We are a small nation, and Palestinians are a similarly sized nation which is moreover a part of the vast Moslem world. The experience of South Africa suggests that the apartheid-type system imposed on Palestinians is not viable in the long run, even if it seems invincible at the beginning."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22236

15/09/2007

Non-violent protest in Al-Walaja turns ugly as army rears head
ISM - September 14th, Palestinians, Israeli, and international demonstrators in the village of Al Walaja were met with severe repression by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Walaja, which is located 8 kilometers west of Bethlehem, has taken up nonviolent resistance in protest of the building of the Apartheid Wall, which, when completed, will completely encircle the village. This will sever many villagers from their livelihoods in nearby Jerusalem. In Walaja 65 houses and the village mosque are slated for demolition. The future of the village appears bleak.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22308

Hebron Update: 01-06 September 2007
CPT-Hebron - (...) On the way to morning patrol at Qurtuba School, Roe and Wendeln witnessed Israeli soldiers preventing the headmistress and her teachers from going through the gate at the Duboyya Street checkpoint. The headmistress finally convinced the soldiers that their names were on a special list that enabled them as teachers to go back and forth without going directly through the metal detectors. Language was part of the problem, as the soldiers claimed that they did not speak Arabic or English.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22315

Abuse of prisoner in solitary confinement. Appeal to Red Cross.
IMEMC - Hasan Salama, who is in solitary confinement in Eshil Israeli prison was attacked and violently beaten and brought to the prison physician with bruises and sharp pain in his back, chest and other parts of his body, as well as suffering from breathing problems - the Waed Society for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners in Israeli prisons holds Israeli authorities responsible for Salama`s life.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22314

PPS: release the sick prisoners
IMEMC - Palestinian Prisoners Society reports neglect of seriously ill detainees and lacking day care for those arriving injured - urging through Red Cross and Physicians for Human Rights to release the sick; calling upon Palestinian negotiators to give priority to plight of 11000 prisoners.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22313

IDF blocks Aksa mosque to Palestinians on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
AP - Jerusalem Post - At the southern checkpoint, near the biblical town of Bethlehem, hundreds of Palestinians, many of them elderly, pushed up against police lines set up near the separation barrier, in this area a towering wall. At one point, the crowd pushed through the police line. One woman crawled on her hands and knees, another fell to the ground as people behind her surged forward. IDF troops shouted at people to get back.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22307

`Unrecognized` Palestinians
Stephen Lendman - icahd.org - Around 150,000 or more (accurate numbers are hard to come by) Palestinian Arabs today live in over 100 so-called "unrecognized villages," mainly in the Galilee and the Negev desert. They`re unrecognized because their inhabitants are considered internal refugees who were forced to flee their original homes during Israel`s 1948 "War of Independence" and were prevented from returning when it ended. These villages were delegitimized by Israel`s 1965 Planning and Construction Law that established a regulatory framework and national plan for future development. It zoned land for residential, agriculture and industrial use, forbade unlicensed construction, banned it on agricultural land, and stipulated where Israeli Jews and Palestinians could live. That`s how apartheid worked in South Africa.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22318