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---------------------------------------- Version without line breaks available at http://www.geocities.com/keller_adam/most_recent_billboard.html --------------------------------------------------------------- A POINT IN COURT, ONGOING STRUGGLES AND A NEW EXCUSE TOI-Billboard, Nov 21, 2004 reports --Yesh Gvul scoring a point in court --B'Tselem: IDF destroys homes of innocent Palestinians --Future leaders - Gush Shalom advocating prisoners release --The ongoing Palestinian olive harvest --Nearly forgotten, but also ongoing: the building of and struggle against the Wall --Vanunu released from house arrest articles --Democracy - the new excuse --Farewell Arafat - by Mahmoud Darwish --Reshaping history - by Noam Chomsky PS: Look for new ads in Speakers Billboard <> Scoring a point in court SUPREME COURT DEMANDS DAN HALUTZ SET OUT HIS VIEWS IN WRITING "Yesh Gvul activists were gratified by the moral victory, but express doubts about the willingness of Israel's judicial system to challenge the military-political establishment by suspending Halutz or censuring him for his role in the Sh'hadeh bombing." read full article: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/503576.html and a related older article on Maariv English website: http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D11%2D21%2015%3A36%3A14%27%7D&articleID=7765 www.yeshgvul.org/english <> THIS ISN'T SECURITY - IT'S CRUELTY B'Tselem: IDF destroys homes of innocent Palestinians "The report also slams the High Court of Justice, accusing it of acting as a "rubber stamp" for government policy regarding the demolitions. The report says that 628 housing units, which were home to 3,983 people, were demolished as a punitive measure." read Yoav Stern's article in: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/502019.html and/or see the video by clicking on the on: http://www.btselem.org/index.asp <> Future leaders - Gush Shalom advocating prisoners release Gush Shalom's advertised statement - advocating the release of Marwan Barghouti and other prisoners before the Palestinian elections - was quoted worldwide: "Yitzhak Rabin -was, under the British Mandate the leader of the prisoners in Rafah prison camp. Yitzhak Shamir -was arrested as a terrorist and exiled to a prison camp in Erithrea. Menahem Begin -was branded as a terrorist with a big prize on his head and blood on his hands, after he blew up the King David hotel in Jerusalem with a hundred civilian dead." full text: http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node.php?id=1458 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0411/S00203.htm see also photos of earlier Barghouti demonstration inside the court: http://www.gush-shalom.org/actions/Baraguti_court_eng.html <> The ongoing Palestinian olive harvest With the every year more close-by settlers shooting at harvesters, stealing olives, or destroying the trees joining Palestinian olive harvesters has become a major issue of a variety of peace and human rights groups, united in a "harvest coalition", each group taking upon itself a mass week-end harvest. Last Saturday, it was the turn of the Women's Coalition for Peace: http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english/events/olive_harvest_201104/ The Rabbis for Human Rights take part in the harvest more than symbolically, mobilizing for already more than a month activists on a daily basis, monitoring settler abuse to the press and complaining the army. The season is nearly over; still the circles of Israelis participating are widening. It was reported on the media that the kibbutz youth movement was busy organizing a harvest solidarity group and there are even participating sometimes settlers. For photos: http://www.rhr.israel.net/harvestingolives/index.shtml <> Nearly forgotten, but also ongoing: the building of and struggle against the Wall Just received the following message: 14:27 Palestinians protesting construction of W. Bank fence north of Tarqumiya; 15 wounded by tear gas and rubber bullets (Itim) <> Vanunu released from house arrest. After his arrest on Nov. 11 Mordechai Vanunu was soon brought back to the St. George??s Cathedral, where he was kept under house arrest for a week. Activists who visited him report that his moral is high, but he is still wating to get his computer back. His email address: vanunumvjc@hotmail.com <><> Democracy - the new excuse - by Zvi Bar'el [A look into the current Palestinian internal dialogue - in today's paper: informative and proving its point] "[Are] those who are demanding democracy in Palestine willing to also define the borders of the Palestinian democratic state before they demand democracy? Or is the idea to create a virtual democracy and only then foist it on every bit of land that will be liberated? This is all only hairsplitting, because the Israelis (and the Americans) who are demanding democracy in the PA would do well to rub their eyes (with astonishment, as usual) and take note of what's happening: The Palestinians themselves are demanding their democracy. They are not waiting for Israel to force them." full text: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504014.html <><> Farewell Arafat - by Mahmoud Darwish "Arafat surprised us by not surprising us. Some fusion between the ailing man and the ailing narrative had preordained the end, preventing the tragic hero from imparting his unique imprint upon his fate. This time, there was no miracle, no surprise: the tragedy was reduced to a long, drawn-out, banal television serial." full text: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/sc81.htm <><> Reshaping history - by Noam Chomsky Critical review of the reporting at the occasion of the death of Arafat "The front-page NYT think-piece (12 November) begins by depicting Arafat as "both the symbol of the Palestinian's hope for a viable, independent state and the prime obstacle to its realization". It goes on to explain that he never was able to reach the heights of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt; Sadat " [won] back the Sinai through a peace treaty with Israel" because he was able to "reach out to Israelis and address their fears and hopes" (quoting Shlomo Avineri, Israeli philosopher and former government official, in the follow-up, 13 November. One can think of more serious obstacles to the realisation of a Palestinian state (...)." full text: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/sc42.htm <><><> PS: Look for new ads in Speakers Billboard SPEAKERS BILLBOARD Israeli peace-activist/speakers find each other through ads http://www.geocities.com/keller_adam/TheOtherIsrael_speakers.html ----------------------------------------------- TOI-Billboard archive link: http://archives.zinester.com/93796 Before being archived, this message appears without linebreaks at http://www.geocities.com/keller_adam/most_recent_billboard.html ----------------------------------------------- TOI-Billboard is the 'ezine' of the independent THE OTHER ISRAEL bi-monthly peace newsletter, existing since 1983, and published by its editors Adam Keller & Beate Zilversmidt. 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