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TOI-Billboard, March 20, 2005? ? Inspiration - not from the big
events
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--Many events, little inspiration -
introduction
--"Ariel, too?"? Gaza pull-out demo report by Adam Keller --Amira Hass' dissident view on the Yad Vashem ceremony --The Open Letter to Kofi Annan, from activists & peace laureates --To be Rabbis for Human Rights is more than preaching --Vanunu: "I don't ask people to whom I speak to show me their passport" --Tali Fahima update --A call for withdrawal of investments from companies funding the occupation --'Stop the use of torture in the interrogation of peace activist Mohammed Tanji' --Nurit Peled-Elhanan's speech to the European Parliament --"Sent Halutz flying home!" officially declared not threatening public order --The first two new COs to report to the army Tuesday ?
Inspiration - not from the big events ( introduction)?
This was the week of the most uninspired withdrawal
from a Palestinian city - after repeated postponements and haggling over details
the army left Jericho to make place for the police force of the Palestinian
Authority.
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In Cairo came about a not much more inspired
cease-fire agreement by the prominent Palestinian militias; it was not called
Hudna (ceasefire), but Thadiya (period of calm) as expression of scepticism as
to whether Israel would fulfill its part.
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And the week ended with an uninspired mass
demonstration, the usual Peace Now public being called upon to support Sharon's
Gaza pull-out - the people who came motivated by conscientious pragmatism rather
than enthusiasm.
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"Ariel,
too?"? Gaza
pull-out demo report by? Adam Keller
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"Flamboyant activist Lior Kay struck a discordant
note, circulating back and forth among the marchers on his roller skates and
shouting: "Wake up, wake up! Withdrawal from Gaza alone is not the end of the
occupation, it will not bring peace!"
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The Ynet report details why the Likud was not there
and Gush Shalom was:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3060422,00.html ?
other English-language reports:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/554094.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1111205274372 ? ? ? ~~~ ?
Amira Hass'? dissident view on the Yad Vashem
ceremony
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"Israel has turned the liquidation of Europe's Jews
into an asset" writes Amira Hass about the high-profile ceremony at the occasion
of the reopening of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. "Our murdered relatives are
being enlisted to enable Israel to continue not giving a damn about
international decisions against the occupation." Unafraid of the "how can you
compare" argument she asks: "Which of the participants in the ceremony will go
to see the roads for Jews only and for Palestinians only? Will any of them
protest the laws discriminating against Israeli citizens, only because they are
non-Jews - Arabs - and threaten to impose sanctions unless these laws are
revoked?"
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Amira Hass: Using the Holocaust to ward off
criticism
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/552572.html ? ? ? ~~~ ?
The Open Letter to Kofi
Annan,? from? activists &? peace
laureates
Text and full list of signatories? at: ?
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To be Rabbis for Human Rights is more than
preaching
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To be Rabbis for Human
Rights is more than preaching as is clear from their own report.
This week they witnessed army and settler harassment of Palestinian farmers
plowing as well as destruction of olive trees. But at least sometimes they
succeed in getting financial compensation for the afflicted farmers. All that
in:
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/rhr_weekreport.htm ? ? ? ~~~ ?
Vanunu: "I don't ask people to whom I speak to
show me their passport"
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'Let Mordechai Vanunu go' international campaign is
followed by 21 new charges brough up against him.
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This week brought to Jerusalem, on behalf of
Vanunu, such people as Daniel Ellsberg famous for leaking in 1971 the Pentagon
Papers,? US attorney Jennifer Harbury of the STOP Torture Campaign and
Norwegian attorney Fredrik S. Heffermehl, representing Lawyers Against Nuclear
Arms. But a day after they pleaded publicly for releasing Vanunu from
restrictions, the state lashed out once more against the man whom they can't
forgive for being unbroken after 18 years of harsh prison
conditions.
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How you can protest:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/20050317protest.html ?
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Tali Fahima update ?
After the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court, Tali
Fahima was after all NOT released from prison to house arrest. She is still in
prison - in isolation - now already for 7 months, and will stay there at least
until the end of her trial, which is not expected before the end of this year.
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International human rights bodies are continuously informed about Tali's
situation and? during the time she was an administrative detainee (5/9/2004
- 5/12//2004) she was one of the prisoners about whom Amnesty international was
organizing campaigns.? But such organizations are not involving themselves
now that she is in the middle of legal proceedings and accused of assisting
terrorism... Therefore, there is a need for new
forms of international support; background for organizing it at: www.freetalifahima.org. ?
A very important form of solidarity: sending her letters (to: Tali Fahima,
Neve Tirza Prison, POBox 297, Ramleh, 72100, Israel). With no more than 2 books
for a whole week to get through the time, letters from supporters worldwide can
make a difference.? For more questions, Iris Bar <nur@netvision.net.il>.
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A call for withdrawal of investments from companies
funding the occupation
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by Israeli human rights lawyer / reservist refuser Shamai Leibowitz
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? "The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has
led to an explosion of "people power" in the streets of Beirut, in which
hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens have called for an end to Syria's
occupation of their land. These calls have been celebrated and echoed in other
capitals (...). However, there is another area in the Middle East where a
struggle to end foreign occupation has brought the natives only death and
destruction."
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'Stop the use of torture in the interrogation of peace
activist Mohammed Tanji'
? Even after the rapprochement of Sharm a-Sheikh, arrests of Palestinians are daily business - the excuse always being that the person "was on the way to perpetrate a terrorist attack." Among many questionable arrests the one of March 2 deserves special attention. A totally unsuspecting Tulkarem-based peace activist was singled out between bus passengers at a checkpoint control. Mohammed Tanji is member of the Israeli-Palestinian organization ???Windows??? (involved in dialogue and humanitarian aid) and his Israeli comrades started sending frentic emails. ?
Tanji, who was subjected to long interrogations, got the support of PCATI
(Public Comittee Against Torture in Israel), the untiring human rights
organization following meticulously what is going on during interrogations in
general. For the appeal to the Supreme Court which they lodged about this
case:
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Nurit Peled-Elhanan's speech to the European
Parliament
? - in a debate about violence against women -
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Thank you for inviting me to this day (...) However, I believe you should
have invited a Palestinian woman at my stead, because the women who suffer most
from violence in my county are the Palestinian women. And I would like to
dedicate my speech to Miriam R`aban and her husband Kamal, from Bet Lahiya in
the Gaza Strip, whose five small children were killed by Israeli soldiers while
picking strawberries at the family`s strawberry field. No one will ever stand
trial for this murder.
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Full text: http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=996
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"Sent Halutz flying home!" officially declared not
threatening public order
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In response to a petition by Yesh Gvul, Tel Aviv district judge Avraham Tal
has overturned a ruling by Ramat Gan mayor Zvi Bar, barring a YG poster from the
city's billboards. The poster features incoming IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz
with a red cross over his face and the caption "Sent Halutz flying home!" Bar
regarded the cross as a call to kill Halutz - but the judge ruled that the
poster does not threaten the public order or offend public sentiments, and that
preference should be given to freedom of expression.
[For how to obtain the poster designed by Israel Prize laureate David Tartakover, contact: Yoav Haas, 02-6715355 0524-673467, or mailto:info@yeshgvul.org.il] ? ? ? ~~~ ?
The first two new COs to report to the army
Tuesday
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The new declaration of refusal by 250 high school students ("shministim")
about which we wrote last week has gotten abundant attention in the media,
including two full news pages in the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot. The first
two, Alex Kon and Eyal Brami, are due to report at the IDF Tel Hashomer
induction center on Tuesday 8am , accompanied by a crowd of supporters. For
transportation shministim@gmail.com;
further information Aviv Sela +972-(0)52-522-7867? AvivSela@netvision.net.il
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# Billboard for Israeli peace activist speakers abroad
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