Is Israel one disaster from collapse?
-Carnegie study gives food for thought-
Ghassan Michel Rubeiz - Common
Ground News Service/Arabisto.com - An important Carnegie study recently showed
that Israel is precariously open to breakdown. The article ?Failed States Index
of 2008 July-August" issue of Foreign Policy magazine, gives the Israel/West
Bank regime a rank of "borderline" on national security - making it one of sixty
fragile countries that are ?just one disaster away [from] collapse.? The study
measures each country on twelve risk factors. Israel scored high on 8 out of the
12 risk indicators: demographic pressure, group grievance, uneven-development,
delegitimisation of state, public service, human rights, factionalised elites
and external intervention.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29260
Olmert: Israel should quit most occupied land
Ilana Curiel/Ethan Bronner - Y-net/New York Times/Reuters - `We should
withdraw from almost all of the territories, including East Jerusalem and the
Golan Heights,` PM tells Yedioth Ahronoth in special Jewish New Year interview.
Palestinian FM: we wish we had heard this personal opinion before he
resigned
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29246
As peace talks sputter, Israelis and Palestinians eye Plan
B
Joshua Mitnick - The Christian Science Monitor - Instead of
widening the rift between Abbas and Hamas by pushing peace talks that divides
the Palestinians into "moderate" peace partners and "extremist" enemies, Israel
should encourage Palestinian reconciliation, says Shlomo Brom, a former Israeli
general and currently a fellow at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel
Aviv.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29256
Hamas and Israel: a hostile but symbiotic
relationship
Ali Jarbawi - Bitterlemons/The Daily Star - It is
difficult to conceive of two more natural enemies than Hamas and the Zionist
movement dominating Israeli politics. In different ways, each is rhetorically
committed to the destruction of the other. However, their relationship is much
more complex and symbiotic than a casual observer might expect.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29254
Israeli settlement sewage contaminating Palestinian water
supply
Najib Farrag - PNN - The Israeli governmental agencies did
not openly state that the wastewater is coming from Israeli settlements, but
ARIJ did and the fact has already been documented by several other sources,
including by the naked eye that can see sewage flowing out of some settlements
and into neighboring Palestinian towns and agricultural lands.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29259
Don`t say we did not know #129
Amos Gvirtz - On
18th September, 2008 in the morning, settlers from Chavat Gilad torched olive
trees of the villages Sara and Tel. For a whole hour, the Israeli police
prevented the Palestinian fire brigade from reaching the spot.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29258
Why Israeli settlers are lashing out
Ilene R.
Prusher - The Christian Science Monitor - "Occupation is rotting our society,"
said Prof. Sternhell, wounded by an extreme- right explosiuve charge laid at the
entrance to his home in Jerusalem. "The terrible violence in the territories is
spilling over the Green Line. This is inevitable ? different standards and laws
for different people cannot exist without affecting all of society. I`m not
seeking absolute justice, only an end to building a de facto apartheid, only to
ensure the creation of a society that future generations will not be ashamed
of."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29252
UK groups urge government not to rent premises from
Leviev
-reported from an Israeli angle-
Ynet - Pro-Palestinian
organizations furious over British Embassy`s plan to lease three floors in Tel
Aviv skyscraper from company `involved in settlement construction in West Bank`
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29255
Poverty, Isolation, Uncertainty Mar Ramadan Celebrations for
Palestinians
Luis Ramirez - VOA - Khalaf says despair over not
being able to feed his nine children has made him want to give them away.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29253
Palestinian Economy: From Bad to Wretched
Ramzy
Baroud - Ma`an News Agency - "Indeed, Israeli restrictions are not coincidental
and hardly confined to the classic rationale of national security. "In reality,
these restrictions go beyond concrete and earth-mounds, and extend to a system
of physical, institutional and administrative restrictions that form an
impermeable barrier against the realisation of Palestinian economic potential,"
the World Bank said. It concluded that more aid would not revive the Palestinian
economy, unless the above restrictions are removed"
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29245
and now also online:
The fading common ground
Adam Keller - The Other Israel
- This lead article analyzes the peace movement's present dilemma's against it's
hundred years of history.
http://toibillboard.info/ed137_138.htm
and http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=29172
