Gaza’s future – not to mention the rest
of the world
Henry Siegman - London Review of Books - Olmert’s
statement that Gaza’s residents could not expect to lead normal lives while
missiles from Gaza were hitting Israel would have been perfectly reasonable if
Gazan residents had indeed been allowed to live ‘normal’ lives before the most
recent tightening of the noose (...) A simple statement of recognition of
Israel’s statehood should suffice. No US government has ever asked anyone to
affirm the legitimacy of the dispossession of America’s Indians as a condition
for the establishing of normal relations.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24937
People’s power in Gaza
Ramzy
Baroud - The Palestine Chronicle - [The recent breaking of the Rafah Wall
reminds Ramzy Baroud of a remarkable and little-known mass non-violent action
which he had personally witnessed at Bureej refugee camp in 1989. Ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24941
90th Palestinian patient dies due to Israeli
siege on Gaza
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - The insecure opening of the
Gaza Strip`s border with Egypt is far from having completely solved all problems
caused by the Israeli siege - especially as the Egyptian authorities mostly
prevent Gazans from travelling further than Egyptian Rafah, which does not have
the medical facilities lacking in the Strip itself.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24934
U.K`s 250 anti Gaza blockade Jewish Voices
causing a stir
Saul Sadka - Haaretz - The statement which appeared
on the inside pages of the paper was signed by 250 of members of "Independent
Jewish Voices" was entitled "End the siege of Gaza!". It condemned Israel`s
actions in blockading Gaza as a violation of international law, and also called
for a halt to Palestinian rocket attacks. "The collective punishment of the
population of Gaza is illegal under international law. We condemn attacks on all
civilians including the rocket attacks on the residents of Southern Israel,"
said the statement.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24931
Hamas vows to block Egypt from sealing
border
Associated Press - So far Egyptian attempts to seal the
border have been largely unsuccessful. "The Palestinian people have many
options" Ismail Haniyeh was quoted as telling the pro-Hamas daily Palestine in
an interview published Friday, when asked about the methods Hamas was planning
to use to prevent the closing of the breached border. He did not elaborate.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24930
'Captain Joe is coming to the
village'
ISM - press release 1) Army commander in the West Bank town
of Azzoun posted hand written messages: "He will start to shoot the fire to kill
the people and to arrest the children and to close the stores and this is a
final decision and if you don`t stop this thing you will collect your results."
// 2) ALI WAKED - Ynet - A military inquiry revealed that the incident was an
independent initiative carried out by an officer on Thursday night. The matter
will be investigated
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24935
Army fires on funeral procession in Beit
Ummar
ISM - The army was espcially agressive at the funeral of the
two young Beit Ummar who were killed while carried out last week’s attack on
Kfar Etzion settlement, with soldiers firing rubber-coated and live ammunition,
tear gas and sound grenades at participated in the funeral procession. [In the
Israeli media, the two had been described as dangerous terrorists and the
settlers who killed them were hailed as brave heroes - which may have effected
the soliders` behaviour at the funeral, where it was they who were the heroes
from the Palestinian point of view. Ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24942
A freed detainee talks about the harsh
conditions in Shatta prison
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - The rooms are
old, very cold in winter and extremely hot in summer. Bugs, cockroaches and
insects are filling the rooms due to old toilets. The detainees are also lacking
hot eater for shower. The detainees barely see the sunshine, and are only
allowed out of their windowless rooms one hour a day.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24936
Toward improvement of solid-waste management
in Palestine
Markus Luecke - This Week in Palestine - Waste is a big
problem for our environment and health in Palestine. Too often garbage is left
on the streets, randomly dumped or burned - all these practices harm our
environment and health. The Khan Younis and Deir El-Balah governorates in the
Gaza Strip built their first sanitary landfill in 1996, and in these places
waste can be collected and disposed of in a clean and environmentally
sustainable way. About ten years later their work was extended to the
Ramallah/Al-Bireh Governorate, with the aim of creating a sustainable
solid-waste management system.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24938
Not just the government, not just the media
- it`s most of the public
Amnon Levy - Ynet - We all saw what we
were doing, to them and to ourselves, yet we still demanded more. And more. The
typical discourse in those days was belligerent and merciless: How we were going
to blow the hell out of them.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24939
Recommended articles from
earlier this week
Daniel Barenboim: Israeli and
Palestinian
When my family moved to Israel from Argentina in
the 1950s, one of my parents` intentions was to spare me the experience of
growing up as part of a minority - a Jewish minority. (…) The tragedy of
my generation, despite having been educated in a society whose positive aspects
and human values have greatly enriched my thinking, ignored the existence of a
minority within Israel - a non-Jewish minority - which had been the majority in
the whole of Palestine until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. (…)
The citizens of Israel have just as much cause to be alert to the needs and
rights of the Palestinian people (both within and outside Israel) as they do to
their own.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24905
Neve Gordon: An experiment in famine - Hamas
is not the real issue
Ehud Barak, Israel`s Minister of Defense, did
not stammer when he justified his decision to experiment with famine; he had no
qualms about introducing a policy that historically only the most brutal leaders
have adopted.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24899
Meron Rapoport: Jewish group to build 200
new housing units in East Jerusalem
The Supreme Court rejected the
Palestinian`s ownership claim two years ago, but refused to state who does own
the land. Abu Hussein says the Palestinian residents have been paying rent for
decades under an agreement that grants them ownership after 30 years. Meir
Margalit of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions says the new plan is
very dangerous because it aims to thwart any chance of a future agreement based
on the division of Jerusalem.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24895
Zvi Bar`el: Whose monopoly
now?
What happened last week was not just the breaching of a fence.
It was a strategic shift that showed Israeli policy in its unvarnished folly.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24821
