...and the occupation
continues
Here
follow the October 6, 2007 press picks published recently - from different
sources and 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. We include also some pics of earlier this
week.)
From Camp David to Annapolis
Haaretz Editorial - The political
negotiations are being conducted in a parallel universe, cut off from reality.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22686
ARIJ
Report on Colonization Activities ( September)
Applied Research
Institute-Jerusalem - www.arij.org - This
monthly report, compiled from a variety of Israeli and Palestinian sources,
tells of many incidents which get hardy any mention anywhere but devastate the
life of the people concerned, for example "The IOF demolished two agricultural
rooms and barracks (50 m? each) in Rakhma village east of Bethlehem city, which
belong to Tayseer Abu Mifrih and `Ali Muhammad Abu Mifrih" (September 11).
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22689
Don`t
say we did not know 76
Amos Gvirtz - When ten settlers entered Tuba
and started to attack villagers it took the police two hours to arrive - leaving
the settlers plenty of time to escape. But authorities are quite energetic when
it is about delivering demolition orders to Palestinians, or about demolishing
for the tenth time Nuri ElUqbi`s protest tent. [Concluded from Gvirtz`s dry and
factual testimony. ed]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22688
Palestinian
last news from IMEMC
International Middle East Media Center - http://www.imemc.org - 3.5 million Shekels
donated to West Bank and Gaza during Ramadan // Israeli military close farm
roads in Deir Al Ghosoon near Tulkarem // Israeli forces overrun Al Bureij
refugee camp in Gaza // Palestinian Authority demands Israel to free all
detainees, including Barghouthi // Abbas: “We want peace, but not for any price”
etc.
http://www.kibush.co.il/downloads/IMEMC_last.news.mht
Parallel
lives
Dalia Karpel - Haaretz - After her military service Nufar
Yishai-Karin attended University and spent seven years investigating the
processes that led Israeli soldiers to maltreat Palestinians in the first
intifada. Her study, which she conducted as her master`s thesis in clinical
psychology, focused on soldiers` testimonies about acts of violence in which
they had participated [with a remarkable conclusion "POLITICAL OPINIONS HAD NO
INFLUENCE ON BEHAVIOR AT ALL; POLITICAL OPINIONS CHANGED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
BEHAVIOR, NOT VICE VERSA." ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22683
Draft
evasion, refusal and the real problem
Assaf Oron - Yesh Gvul - I
enlisted in February 1985 and volunteered to "Givati" - a newly-forming infantry
regiment. My decision had no specific reason; I was just being naive. What I
didn`t know (and would never have known, unless I bumped a few years later into
a former commander who told me about it) is that I was also a guinea pig.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22687
Lieberman
attacks Gush Shalom, Yesh Gvul and guess who else.
Haaretz/Gush
Shalom - Avigdor Lieberamn, Olmert`s "Minister for Strategic Threats", has been
uncharacteristically quiet for some weeks. This week he propped up his image by
an attack on Gush Shalom, Yesh Gvul and - of course - the Palestinians and all
Arabs and Muslims.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22685
Boycott
threat has been lifted, but occupation continues
Uri Ram - Ynet -
There is no room here for the joy expressed by the education minister and top
education officials. What are they so happy with? The fact that universities in
the territories are unable to function? Or maybe it is the fact that, on the
other hand, we are seeing an Israeli academic institute being increasingly
established in the central occupation town of Ariel.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22684
Youths
of Al Walajh help themselves - but you can help, too
Khader Al-Araj
- ansar.virtualactivism.net - [This report of one year old Ansar Centre,
contains the sort of activities such as a community centre would undertake
anywhere - which is highly remarkable, considering that Al Walajh is among the
most harassed and threatened of all Palestinian villages. ed]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22691
Interview
with Marwan Barghouti translated by Diana Buttu, IMEU
Yediot
Aharonot / Institute for Middle East Understanding - Israeli authorities have
prevented interviews with [Marwan Barghouti] in an Israeli prison. This
interview was done through the assistance of his lawyer Khader Shkirat. We sent
the questions through him and in this difficult way we cannot challenge
Barghouti on his answers. We could not ask follow-up questions. But, through his
answers we can understand a few things about his political opinions and personal
life.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22682
and
from earlier days:
Israel,
Palestine and the Hypocrisies of Power – an interview with Noam
Chomsky
Noam Chomsky and New Internationalist-Share the World`s
Resources- "The punishment of Palestinians for the crime of voting the wrong way
was severe. With constant US backing, Israel increased its violence in Gaza,
withheld funds that it was legally obligated to transmit to the Palestinian
Authority, tightened its siege and, in a gratuitous act of cruelty, even cut off
the flow of water to the arid Gaza Strip. The Israeli attacks became far more
severe after the capture of Corporal Gilad Shalit on 25 June, which the West
portrayed as a terrible crime. Again, pure cynicism. Just one day before, Israel
kidnapped two civilians in Gaza – a far worse crime than capturing a soldier –
and transported them to Israel (in violation of international law, but that is
routine), where they presumably joined the roughly 1,000 prisoners held by
Israel without charges, hence kidnapped. None of this merits more than a yawn in
the West."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22676
Ali
Abunimah debates Avika Eldar on Canadian radio Debate
Ali Abunimah
and Avika Eldar- CBC Canada-"All this has many -- once again -- questioning the
viability of a two-state solution and whether the controversial one-state
proposal is even worth talking about. The Current hosted Abunimah and Eldar to
discuss the feasibility, desirability and seeming impossibility of a one-state
solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22672
Dissenting
at your own risk
Cecilie Surasky - Star-Telegram - Self-appointed
gatekeepers work diligently (...). Non-Jewish critics, even former President
Carter, are denounced as anti-Semites. Special ire is reserved for Jewish
dissenters, who are branded as "self-hating" or "marginal," while Muslim and
Arab-Americans are easily smeared and even criminalized with charges of
supporting terrorism.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22650
Barrier
to peace
Samar Assad - Palestine Center (Washington) - Israel
claims the new route of the fence will annex “only” 8-7 percent of the West
Bank. However, a study of the maps by the PLO’s
Negotiations
Affairs Department concludes that 12 percent of West Bank land stands to be
annexed [with a link to the IDF`s map - ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22653
“Shabak
forced us to inform in order to live”
Amit Cohen - Maariv - “In the
recent period we have seen a significant increase in applications of Palestinian
patients, especially Gaza residents, whose exit has been conditioned on
collaborating with Shabak, says Ron Yaron, from the “Physicians for Human
Rights” organization. The organization helps those patients whose entry into
Israel has been barred.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22649
Gaza
kids don`t play
Roy
Peled, YNET - " According to army, children killed by IDF are part of
Palestinian war machine..And an update: As this article was being published, the
IDF investigation showed that the three Palestinian kids who were killed were
playing catch. Imagine that. Palestinians? Catch? Children? The surprises just
never end."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22642
Challenges
facing the Palestinian-American community’
Rafi Dajani
and Ghaith Al Omari - The Jordan Times - "While the noise created by one staters
in the US is considerable, this vision has almost no support among Palestinians
living in the occupied territories, who understand that realistic solutions, not
idealistic fantasies, be the way out of their daily misery and
humiliation."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22609
Crawling
on hands and knees
Khaled Amayreh -- Al-Ahram -- "The nearly
total PA dependence on the Americans to get an extremely parsimonious Israel to
be more forthcoming with regard to the core issues has already forced the PA
leadership to `beg for` rather than `demand` Israeli good-will, whatever that
means. But, for most Palestinians and Arabs, `Israel` and `good-will` are
oxymorons that shouldn`t be used in the same breath."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=22588
