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Optimistic polls and a lot of frenzy TOI-Billboard Jan. 22, 2005 Content --This week - an assessment and Ha'aretz pics of the week --The new `there's no partner' By Yitzhak
Laor This week - an assessment There was a total frenzy in the Israeli system.
The newly elected Palestinian President Abu Mazen seems to have coped with his first big crisis. - deploying Palestinian security forces to stop the missiles, without a violent confrontation with the militias - in fact, while conducting an intensive dialogue with them. But the occupation continues, in all its ugly manifestations - and without strong pressure on Sharon, the famous "window of opportunity" would remain nothing but a public relations illusion. Defying the "excommunication" of newly chosen Palestinian president Monday, Jan. 17 - Following Sharon's suspending all contacts with the PA a Geneva Initiative delegation with Yossi Beilin, Labor MKs Amram Mizna, Yuli Tamir and MK Haim Oron of Meretz/Yachad as well as former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg met with the newly elected Palestinian Authority President, Abu Mazen in his office in Ramalla. Read more Nirit Will not Become a Settlement Residents of Nirith - a community to the east of Petach Tikva and near to the '67 border - started a campaign against the linkage between their municipality and a whole new so-called neighborhood 'Nof Hasharon' - right now under construction on the other side of the Green Line, i.e. a new settlement. Officially, Nof-Hasharon is presented as a mere extension of the West Bank settlement Alef Menashe, from which it is however separated by the Wall. This is clearly a preparation for annexing to Israel the Palestinian lands cut away by the so-called Security Fence, said to be 'temporary'. The
petition http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ag454 A friend of a
friend...
Daniel Yono, an Israeli now living in Holland
has a friend Samir in Khan Yuneis. Since the Intifada Samir cannot come to
Tel-Aviv anymore where he had worked for years. During one army invasion
this month the 8-year old grandson of Samir got a bullet in his
head.
Daniel phoned Gush Shalom
activist Maya Gal with a request for help to this very poor family in the time
of such utter grief. It had to be quick, as members of the family
would only be two more days in the Tel-Hashomer 'Children's Hospital' near
Tel-Aviv. Immediately, phone calls were made and emails sent.
This little action resulted in a nice some of money being collected - and the Jerusalem-based Middle East Council of Churches mediated to let Samir get a temporary job - as part of their "job creation" project in Gaza. One of the outcomes: that there was made
contact with the group the "Tel-Hashomer Volunteers" who try to provide the
children's relatives, with all they need: from a listening ear to help coping
with the bureaucracy. They also visit children who are alone, and bring
the parents present basic needs - food, diapers for the children, washing items,
phone-cards to stay in contact with home, and so
on.
Contact: Bilha bilhagolan@bezeqint.net
No good news from Nablus Optimism for a period of peace following the elections was misplaced. In Nablus Israeli military aggression continues as usual, reports the ISM We acted
without thinking, like zombies
Ma'ariv, 11 January 2005
by Chen Kost-Bar
Now in English:
Fines as punishment within the prison The Tel-Aviv-based women support group of the political prisoners (WOFFP) with a new report about what's going on inside the prisons, including also the last news about Tali Fahima's trial. http://www.geocities.com/keller_adam/woffp_newsletter.htm
A just solution is not an Israeli concession Al-Quds Editorial, Jan. 7 Summary-translation for Occupation Magazine by Mark Marshall (...) Israeli media describe any Israeli move towards peace, such as withdrawing from territory or evacuating settlements, as ???painful concessions???, as if it were being done as a favour or a gift to the Palestinian people, and as if such moves would constitute a loss to Israeli society. More
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20§ion=8. Look for yourself http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=430
Ha'aretz pics of this week: The new `there's no partner' By Yitzhak Laor - Ha'aretz, Jan. 17 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/527915.html
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Jan. 18 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/528457.html
Gov't decision strips Palestinians of their East J'lem property By Meron Rappaport, Haaretz Jan. 20 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/529510
Land lords By Meron Rapaport - Ha'aretz Friday Magazine Jan. 21 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/530047.html Billboard for Israeli peace activist speakers abroad --you would like to make a speaking tour? Send your ad and find the right contacts
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