Bush should stay home
Akiva Eldar
- Haaretz - Bush is an accomplice to an offense far worse than all of the
criminal offenses of which Olmert is suspected combined. Every speech made by
the president is one more bit of exposure of the nakedness of the Palestinian
circles who tied their collective fate to the Annapolis declaration, which
pledged to "make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008."
In light of the stasis in the negotiations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
(Abu Mazen) seems likely to resign even before Olmert does.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26853
Truce negotiations and the question of prisoner
exchange
IMEMC/Jerusalem Post - Two earlier Israeli conditions were
met by Hamas: that the truce be in Gaza only and not include the West Bank, and
that smaller militias operating in Gaza be obliged to respect the truce. Now,
Olmert introduced a new demand: the release of captured Israeli soldier Gil`ad
Shalit, without Israel releasing most of the prisoners on the Hamas wish list.
The Palestinian Center for Defending the Detainees called upon Shalit`s captors
to remain steadfast with their demands, as "thousands of detainees and their
families have hopes and expectations for a prisoner swap deal". Meanwhile, the
continued fighting in and around Gaza claimed the life of a 70-year old Israeli
woman, arousing the anger and frustration of Israeli border community
inhabitants. [Ed.]
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26863
Leftists mark Palestinian ‘Nakba
Day’
Aviram Zino - Ynet - Two hundred left-wing activists and
Israeli Arabs marched on Sunday from the Jerusalem Theater square to the Nature
Museum on Emek Refaim Street in the capital marking 60 years since “Nakba Day",
or “catastrophe” of Israel`s inception in 1948.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26856
9 activists injured as army attacks demonstrators who
removed roadblock in Shufa
ISM/JMCC - Israeli, Palestinian and
international activists together with residents of Shufa village carried picks,
shovels and hoes and within two hours removed a roadblock that cuts Shufa from
nearby Izbit Shufa. A village tractor was needed to move some of the larger
rocks. Finally, a service mini-bus was able to cross through the remnants of the
roadblock, to the cheering of the waiting crowd. Soldiers watched and did not
interefere, but when activists attempted to make their way to remove a further
roadblock soldiers blocked them, shooting sound bombs, followed by a barrage of
rubber-coated steel bullets at close range. Four Palestinians, four Israelis and
one international were injured, one requiring hospitalisation.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26861
IDF soldier documented shooting demonstrator at close
range in Bil’in
Ali Waked - Ynet - In a video shot mid March by
B’Tselem (The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied
Territories), a young Israeli is seen innocently standing near a group of
soldiers, when he is suddenly shot at close range. NB: video given.
“I
yelled ‘Enough with the Violence’ at them, and then a soldier turned around and
fired a rubber bullet into my leg, but the village’s residents suffer more.
Compared to what they are going through – my case is nothing.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3542587,00.html
Ynet reporting on New Profile campaign against the
automatism of army service
Natasha Mozgovaya - Ynet - "Some 56% of
youths each year do not enlist in the army or do not complete army service," the
movement`s charter states. "Therefore no one who`s been exempted from service by
the army should feel bad about himself.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26855
Racism at conference
Gush Shalom - Calling
upon Attorney-General Menny Mazuz, to investigate settler rabbis Zalman Melamed,
Dov Lior and Yisrael Samet, on charges of racist incitement.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26862
5,000 support Carter-Mashaal meeting
Elana
Kirsh - Jerusalem Post - Text of petition of Jewish Voice for Peace and Just
Foreign Policy: (...) Jimmy Carter speaks for me when he says that resolution of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires talking to Hamas. 64% of Israelis have
said they support talks with Hamas. Please support including talks with Hamas in
efforts to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26859
Five Myths on Who`s Really
`Pro-Israel`
Jeremy Ben-Ami - Washington Post - Six decades ago, my
father fought alongside Menachem Begin for Israel`s independence. If you`d have
told him back then that politicians in the world`s last superpower would be
jockeying today to see who can be more "pro-Israel," he would have laughed at
you.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26862
Israel needs tough love
Jerome Segal -
Haaretz - Did Carter focus world attention on an overlooked but major
opportunity to end the conflict? The answer is: Yes.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=26857
