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Heading towards? the disengagement bang TOI-Billboard - June 22,? 2005? (This is the first billboard after June 5; sorry for the delay because of computer crash.) ? --This week... --Recommended reports and articles? The? fence, non-violent activists targeted, and the children of Bil'in Four? draft refusers in prison Addressing? the Israeli street Silwan demolition threat halted for the time being, or... Death sentence to? Refaim
valley "I? had to apologize in front of everybody for Israeli policies" A one-man protection force, by Nir Hasson in Ha'aretz An ill wind is blowing - Akiva Eldar Is Bush getting serious about the peace process?? Henry Siegman in IHT Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation,
Avi Shalim "We Must Try Harder",? Shamai Leibowitz and Yehudith Harel? on why boycott is a needed tool ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
*** ? This week... ? This week, the? occasion of the first Sharon-Abbas "work meeting", the awareness breaks through that we may after all be heading towards confrontation. With disengagement day approaching? ? it is difficult to continue not believing what Sharon has said all the time but hoping against hope that "he talks tough in order to? deceive ? the settlers, but in
reality he works on his place as peacemaker in the history books." ? This is of course not what the Palestinians in Bil'in and? Marda ever believed? nor those? in the many other villages whose sources of sustenance? are being bulldozed and taken away. Nor are the young Israelis who daily assist them fooled into thinking that Sharon doesn't mean it. ? After an interruption of nearly three weeks (we had to rebuild our data after a computer crash) we will only give you the most important reports and articles which you may not have received otherwise. ? ? Recommended? reports & articles ? The? fence, non-violent activists targeted, and the children of Bil'in? ? While the joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle
against the Fence is daily taking place and often in more than one location, we get used to hear that activists were arrested or got wounded. Two? leading Anarchists (if such a thing exists) were targeted especially: Yonatan Polak is no longer? allowed to enter the occupied territories (for three months), and Leiser Palas was beaten up and spent a day in hospital with a head wound and is still limping. ? Update on detained Bil'in community leaders ? A few days ago supporters worldwide were asked to send protests to the Israeli authorities at the detention of the brothers Abdullah and Rateb Abu Rahma, community leaders of Bil'in, on trumped up charges of "stone-throwing" during the anti-wall protest last Friday. As we heard from Adv. Tamar Peleg of the Ha'Moked legal aid center, the deliberations of the Yehuda Military Court yesterday ended with Abdullah being released with a 5000 Shekels (a bit more than a $1000) bail being posted, while Rateb will remain at least until next Tuesday at the Ofer Detention Camp. The judge, Captain Kfir Yehudah, needs this extra week in order to make up his mind about the testimony of a border guard who claims to have been assaulted by Rateb Abu Rahma. In fact, that guard was the one who
threw a shock grenade at Rateb while he was lying on the ground, which exploded between Rateb's thighs and wounded him. Next week,? video footage taken at the demo? and clearly proving Rateb's case? will be presented? as evidence. Hopefully also he will? then be allowed to await trial? at home, not in detention.? For further details contact Adv. Tamar Peleg, +972-507-308199 tamarpel@netvision.net.il ? As we are again and again faced with? prisoners needing to be bailed out? - Palestinian, Israeli or international -? please help us? create? a "bail fund" for the non-violent struggle against the Fence. Send? ? donations earmarked for "Anti-Fence Bail fund" to The Other Israel (TOI), pob 2542, Holon 58125, Israel, or send it? to? "TOI" via Paypal using the address? ? otherisr@actcom.co.il. ? Meanwhile, the children of Bil'in were the only ones to be allowed into Israel proper on the day that the village's fate was sealed in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Read the translated Yediot article ? ? and follow the link to photos ? [The lastest from Bil'in came to us? by email and phone:? at 6 in the morning? today, June 22,? ten? people -? villagers, as well as international and Israeli activists and ... a sheep,? locked themselves into a cage on the planned route of the annexation wall. Of course there followed arrests, but today the untiring advocate Peleg succeeded in getting all out...] ? Four draft? refusers in prison ? (...) Objectors Misha Hadar and Eyal Brami have both made a decision to refuse from now on to wear a military uniform and follow orders while in prison. Misha Hadar has formulated this decision in the following letter: ? June 2005 - It is now two months since my first refusal to serve in the Israeli army and since I made my request to be heard by a "conscience committee" ??“ a right which I have so far been denied. After several terms in jail I have come to the conclusion
that sooner or later, any dialogue with the military follows the logic of the military - a way of thinking which is fundamentally lacking in conscience, which bases itself in brute force, and which, since 1967 leads to the consistent abuse of the Palestinian people and their rights.(...) ? As a result, I feel that any attempt on my part to speak has become wholly superfluous. In fact, it only creates strange types of co-operation with what is lacking in conscience. (...) ? full update + what you can do? http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/COupdate.htm ? ? Addressing the Israeli street ? Scroll down on http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en? to see photos and some explanation of two events -? one in? Lod (Activism Festival)? and one in Tel-Aviv (Democracy Day Against the Occupation) ? More on the Activism Festival http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=208 ? Background of the Democracy Day Against the Occupation ? Meanwhile, others try to debate trough the use of coloured ribbons,? now that? orange has become the? settlers' symbol. ? ? Silwan demolition threat halted for the time being, or... ? The Jerusalem municipality said Tuesday it has postponed plans to demolish 88 Arab homes in East Jerusalem
and was trying to negotiate a compromise with local residents. But a representative of the residents, lawyer Sami Ershied, said tenants in the neighborhood of Silwan continue to receive demolition orders and he denied that a committee to work out a compromise was formed. ? ? ? ? Death sentence to? Refaim valley? ? By Zafrir Rinat ? June 15, 2005 The green organizations fought for years to save the Refaim Valley, which meanders its way to Jerusalem from the south. They persuaded the planners of a major road to route it through tunnels below the valley, and succeeded in fending off the construction of a new Jerusalem neighborhood. Yet now they are virtually powerless to prevent the separation fence, which will destroy the southern reaches of the valley and wreak havoc on the quality of life of the Palestinian villages near it. ? ? ? "I? had to apologize in front of everybody for Israeli policies" "It's important for me to explain that Israel isn't all tanks and soldiers running after small children. Israel isn't just the army. There are law-abiding citizens who are concerned about human rights in Israel. That's very important for me to clarify." Yafit Gamila Biso immigrated to Israel from Syria in 1985. She is active in many joint Israeli-Palestinian peace and human rights groups. Her activities include being a translator and contact person for Palestinian children and families getting treatment in Israeli hospitals, organizing humanitarian aid for Palestinian children in the West Bank, and assisting Palestinians with the olive harvest. (...) I worked in international brokerage. I was the liaison between business representatives from Israel and the Arab countries. I worked with Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians, people from the Gulf. I simply had to apologize in front of everybody for Israeli policies. They saw Israel sealing up houses, demolishing houses; our Israeli soldier is depicted all over the world as a soldier with a tank pursuing a child with a rock in hand. Read more? ? ? http://www.justvision.org/profile/yafit_gamila_biso.php ? By Nir Hasson? Ha'aretz? June 5, 2005? ? A 53-year-old plumber from Jerusalem has become a one-man institution
dedicated to helping and protecting the Palestinian cave dwellers of the southern Hebron Hills. ? ? ? An ill wind is blowing By Akiva Eldar - Ha'aretz June 21, 2005 ? Central
Command Major General Yair Naveh has ordered personnel in the Civil Administration, which oversees contacts with the Palestinians, to make it clear that there is no intention to transfer authority, land or property to the PA. As far as they are concerned, the only change will be the evacuation of a few hundred Jews from four settlements. From a formal, legal perspective, the term "disengagement" applies only to the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, the Palestinians will receive absolutely nothing. ? ? ? Is Bush getting serious about the peace process?? Henry Siegman International Herald Tribune TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2005 ? The emphasis of Bush's speech (...) was on the unacceptability of unilateral Israeli measures. Now the message was addressed to Israel: "Get used to it, changes in the 1949 armistice line can only be made with Palestinian agreement." ? Unfortunately, Bush's responses to reporters' questions after his White House meeting with Abbas seemed both to justify the skepticism of detractors
who say that he will not implement his rhetoric, and to undermine whatever confidence Palestinians might have had in his statement opposing Israeli unilateralism. Bush implied that Palestinians would have to transform the economic disaster and political chaos in Gaza into a model of democracy, good government and prosperity before he will lean on Israel to stop stealing Palestinian lands for its settlements and to start permanent status talks. ? Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to allow Bush and his administration to distance themselves from the president's important confirmation of the inadmissibility of Sharon's unilateral changes in the West Bank and in Jerusalem. Instead, Bush should be unrelentingly held to
his latest statement of U.S. policy, for it provides a critical marker for those in Israel, in the United States and elsewhere who still seek fairness and justice, not to speak of international legality, in shaping the outcome of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ? ? Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation (...) The two main items on America's current agenda for the region are democracy for the Arabs and a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. America, however, insists on democracy only for its Arab opponents, not for it's friends. As for the peace process, it is essentially a mechanism by which Israel and America try to impose a solution on the Palestinians. American hypocrisy is nothing new. But with Dr Rice it has gone beyond chutzpah. With Ariel Sharon, by contrast, what you see is what you get. He has always been in the destruction business, not the construction business. read more http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1511702,00.html? ? "We Must Try Harder" - Shamai Leibowitz and Yehudith Harel? on why boycott is a needed tool June 17, 2005 Occupation magazine ? To struggle against an all-powerful Israeli colonial regime, we, the Israeli human rights community, need support and assistance from the international civil society in the form of
boycott. The boycott is a classic tool for social change. The American Revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. The non-violent movement that brought down the British colonial empire included Gandhi`s boycott against British textiles. The Montgomery bus boycott launched the American civil rights movement, which ended segregation and disenfranchisement of Afro-Americans. And, of course, the international boycott of South Africa played a vital role in ending apartheid. ? These historical precedents support the boycott organizers` statement that boycott is `the most practical contribution to ending Israel`s occupation and colonization of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.` ? full text http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=4502 ? An abbreviated and edited version appeared in: Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i41/41b01301.htm? ? ----------------------------------------------- TOI-Billboard current issue: http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/index.htm ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- TOI-Billboard archive: http://archives.zinester.com/93796 ----------------------------------------------- ? 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
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