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TOI-Billboard April 23,
2005 Freedom for one side alone is no freedom, and won't last
--The week that was
--Bil'in --Tali Fahima --Vanunu, protests against renewed restrictions and articles which appeared in the Israeli press --Raging Grannies interview
(English summary)
--Academic Boycott (articles of Neve Gordon, Barghouti/Taraki, Ilan Pappe and protesting lecturers) --The coming Pax Americana -
Efraim Halevy, Ha'aretz
THE WEEK THAT
WAS
The Gaza pull-out will be postponed
for three weeks, now due mid-August; under American pressure some coordination
with the Palestinian Authority is building up; meanwhile Prime Minister Sharon
is repeating in a whole series of interviews in the Israeli printed press that
there will be no "disengagement B"; it will be up to Abu Mazen to go head-on
against Hamas instead of coopting them - in short, Sharon is collecting
arguments why not to move on with the Roadmap, and out of the West Bank.
Meanwhile the "creation of facts"
goes on in high gear.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/567677.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1113963510296&p=1078027574097 http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html BIL'IN
Also this week Bil'in persisted
in its protest against the wall cutting through their lands, and the struggle is
widening with a planned big demo next week in which Gush Shalom, the Women's
Coalition for Peace and Ta'ayush will join the ongoing protests of Palestinians,
International Solidarity Movement and the (Israeli) Anarchists against
Fences.
"We continued the march and stopped
under an olive tree next to the planned route of the Wall. For about 15 minutes
we chanted slogans under the olive tree. More soldiers began to arrive. The army
tried to prevent people from filming what was happening by pushing away
photographers and demanding that they leave the area. We started to walk down
the planned route of the Wall. The soldiers grew increasingly agitated and tried
to stop us from walking to the area where bulldozers have already destroyed the
land."
Reports of Thursday and Friday
sent by ISM neta_golan@yahoo.com
TALI
FAHIMA
While the efforts to get Tali
Fahima await trial at home in the end failed, at least the struggle for
relieving her prison conditions had some success.
VANUNU
Protests against renewed
restrictions and articles which appeared in the Israeli
press
In a series of actions several dozen
international supporters together with Israelis protested the renewal of the
restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu, forbidding him any communication with
non-Israelis, and severely limiting his freedom of movement, not allowing him to
travel abroad.
There was a press conference, and
there were protest vigils in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv but the peak event was in
Dimona on April 21st - a year after Vanunu's emerging from prison - with
speakers from the international delegation and local activists; readings by
actor Yossi Polack, poet Mati Shmuelov, Roy Arad and Justin Morahan, as well as
musical performances: Ben Inman & The Raging Grannies (see separate item) -
who added a Vanunu song to their repertoire.
>>Related reports from the Israeli press<< Interior Minister extends ban on
Vanunu, preempting the Knesset debate
Reactor employees seek damages By Vered Luvitch
"Israel has often come under fire for
housing what world organizations say is the building of nuclear weapons inside
the Dimona plants. Israel has never confirmed or denied the
accusations."
Seven comments on the
situation
By Yoel Marcus
"Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz surprised us when he extended the travel ban on Mordechai Vanunu for another year. Some 20 years have gone by since Vanunu published all the secrets of Dimona in The Sunday Times. I wonder what danger he constitutes today to our security. And indeed, I thought and thought and came to the conclusion that perhaps the concern is that he will reveal that we are still trudging along at the same capability we had 20 years ago." Yediot Aharonot online article: Vanunu blasts Israel on Internet chat "I saved Israel from its madness to
go toward nuclear genocide war," Vanunu told Internet surfers. (AP)
RAGING
GRANNIES
What do your husbands think about
your intensive political activities?.
Straus: Tzvi thinks I am too active and that I don't take enough care of my health, that I am running too fast and spend too much time outside the house. He would be happy if I were to cut my activity down by a half. Keller: My husband thinks exactly the same, but he knows there is no chance I would do it. Translated excerpts of the
Anashim article about the by now legendary grannies.
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ACADEMIC BOYCOTT
Articles of Neve Gordon,
Barghouti/Taraki, Ilan Pappe and protesting lecturers
After months of debate the
British lecturers' union's (AUT) has decided to boycott the Bar Ilan and the
Haifa universities. The decision was more moderate than what the initiators
originally tried - a boycott all Israeli universities. The Bar Ilan
university was picked because of its deep involvement in the settlement
project, specifically by the creation of an affiliated college in the settlement
of Ariel, the so-called "Judea and Samaria College". Haifa University is also
targeted - for its lack of academic freedom as shown in its persecution of
history professor Ilan Pappe for supporting his student Teddy Katz in the affair
of the 1948 massacre at the Palestinian village of Tantura.
With more and more voices in favor of boycott, it is no surprise that academia is among the first targets. One can question whether the timing is so logical short before the Gaza pull-out, but then - it does coincide with Sharon boasting in the Israeli media about the building of thousand new appartments in the West Bank settlements Betar Illit and hundreds in Ma'aleh Admumim in order to create continuity between them and Israel settlements... Against the Israeli Academic Boycott
- Neve Gordon, Beer Sheva
Israeli universities continue to be
an island of freedom surrounded by a stifling and threatening environment (...)
but in the past year and a half have been under an unprecedented assault by the
Sharon government. The Minister of Education, Limor Livnat, is trying to
radically change the structure of higher education, including the way
universities are governed and managed. She would like to strip power from the
faculty senates and transfer it to boards of trustees in which professors are
barred from membership. An academic boycott will only strengthen Livnat, and in
this way assist the destruction of academic freedom in Israel.
Why we ask for a boycott - Omar
Barghouti & Lisa Taraki, April 20, The Guardian
Barghouti and Taraki represent
the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Bir
Zeit
"In South Africa's case, the UN
established a regime of sanctions that eventually ended apartheid. Academics,
athletes, artists and business people were all subject to boycott then, and
British academics and intellectuals played a distinguished role in those
campaigns."
Boycotting Israeli academics
[Letters against the boycott
signed by hundreds of U.K. university people.]
"We oppose Israel's occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza and we support the right of the Palestinian people to an
independent state alongside Israel. We think, however, that proposals by some
members of the Association of University Teachers for a boycott of Israeli
academia would be counterproductive."
To boldly go - Ilan Pappe, April 20,
The Guardian
"I appeal to you as an Israeli Jew, who for years wished, and looked, for other ways to bring an end to the evil perpetrated against the Palestinians in the occupied territories, inside Israel and in the refugee camps. I devoted all my adult life, with others, creating a substantial peace movement inside Israel, in which, so we hoped, academia will play a leading role. But after 37 years of endless brutal and callous oppression of the people of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and after 57 years of colonisation and dispossession of the Palestinians as a whole, I think this hope is unrealistic and other means have to be looked at to end a conflict that endangers peace in the world at large." THE COMING PAX AMERICANA -
Efraim Halevy, Ha'aretz
The widely-respected expert on
'the bigger picture', ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy, has not turned dove. In the
following article he gives his informed opinion on the volatile situation
throughout the region - focusing on Syria, Iran and Saudia - concluding that the
region's instability brings about an increasing role for the US and the road
map, depriving Israel of its maneuvering space.
~~~
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