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Back to the routine? ? B. Michael

Translated from Yediot Aharonot, Sept. 30?

Instead of our own assessment of the past? week

At last we are back to normal, to the good old routine. The withdrawal is over, the evacuation is over, the quarrel with Bibi is over, all the exciting extraordinary things are over. Back to the normal routine.

The routine of assassinations. Of killings. Of bombing Gaza. The routine of a selective memory which can sharply focus only on falling Qassam missiles, and is somehow utterly unable to recall that all too often they had been preceded by assassinations. In this case it was some quick slayings at Tulkarm. (Of course Colonel Roni Numa, commander of the Nahal Brigade, announces with complete confidence that all of those killed had been terrorists - but past experience justifies some scepticism at such announcements). But the memory which goes back to routine does not dwell on such trivia.

We have come back even to the routine of the televised voice of Defence Minster Mofaz, a man of few words in days without violence, celebrating the return to the routine of making bald threats, and promises of mayhem, and muscled pronouncements, and the other rampant male manifestations of which he is so fond.

We have also come back to the routine of "oblique retaliation" to? which we have become so used in the years of the Intifiada: that is, it is Hamas which shoots and the Jihad which kills, but routine demands that very much of the retaliation be directed at Fatah. Or at the Palestinian Authority's police. Or just at the Palestinian Authority itself. Or to the head of the PA. For after all, the byword of the routine is to preserve the routine of "no partner", the routine of "the weak Palestinian leader who may want but can't do anything". For that is the only way to preserve also the routine of doing nothing positive, and the routine of the occupation, and the routine of a quiet ethnic cleansing here and there.

And there is? routine of "the settlement blocks", that plausible mantra which is sure to cut off any real effort at dialogue. These amoeba-like blocks or blobs, whose boundaries and limits nobody ever described or defined (why should they?), are the best instrument for the most important aspect of routine at all - making it possible for an aggressive and land-grabbing prime minister to speak of "painful concession".? ("Oh, yes, I just want to keep a few settlement blocks here and there, no more than that. Is that really too much to ask? Just a block or two or three?"

Yes, we have come back to routine. Just one more routine week: Mofaz is bombing, and Diskin is liquidating, and Sharon is constructing, and the world is applauding, and the suckers believe everything they are told. Oh, what a wonderful routine! (...)

full? translation? http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/B_Michael.htm

Anti-occupation street theatre & CO to jail

Moran Zelikovich - Ynet (Yediot Aharonot site) 28 Sep, 2005
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New army recruits forced to watch ???soldiers??™ beating up ???Palestinians??™ in display prepared
by teenagers who signed service refusal petition (on the? morning that CO Uri Nathan went? to jail)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3148837,00.html
(The Ynet site includes a video of the event)

Tali Fahima, a Too-Curious Israeli Woman?

By St?©phanie Le Bars, Le Monde

English: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092705H.shtml

Original in French: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3230,36-692170,0.html?

Read also:? ?

Professor Jacob Katriel's appeal:

Tali Fahima trial? - how to send help for? legal expenses

? http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/tali_fahima.htm

Tones of sadness

Interview with Jacob Allegro ('the Bil'in pianist') by Amir Tibon & Peleg Sapir

(...) I think of the world Jacob Allegro would have liked to know, a world which nearly ceased to exist. One of the last remnants are people like Allegro, who hiked from a comfortable Amsterdam apartment to the unpaved road in front of Bill'in, in order to express solidarity. To play his tune on the piano. A different kind of a Jewish tune.

Read the full translation: http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/JAllegro_interview.htm

Hebrew original on the Bariqada? website:

http://www.bariqada.co.il/show_item.asp?levelId=45718&itemId=3381&itemType=0

read also about this week's Bil'in demo:

Soldiers bar residents, activists from picking Olives in Bil??™in? ? ? ? ? ? ?
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Friday, 30 September 2005?

http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Olives_Bilin.htm

Original accessible for those registered

http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14191&Itemid=1

Amnesty International has taken up the excessive use of force in Bil'in against Palestinians and Israelis - mentioning also the protest concert on Sep 16, whose ending in a shooting spray can be seen and heard on:

http://gush-shalom.org/video/bilin--16-9-05-piano.html

The Urgent Action appeal on the Amnesty website:?

Israel: Fear for safety / Excessive use of force / Land Rights

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE150472005

3000? commemorate in Sakhnin?

Last minute update:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/631058.html

Call for 'a real opposition'

Gush Shalom ad in Ha'aretz

Few of us will mourn the defeat of Binyamin Netanyahu. But Ariel Sharon is not a man of peace, either. (...)

full text: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en

The relationship between religion and Zionism

two articles

Sharon Vs. God (Religio-Zionism and the Gaza disengagement) by? Akiva Orr

http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/akiva_orr.htm

Zionism - The Continuation of Judaism by Other Means? ? by Yael Lotan

http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Yael_Lotan.htm

Recommended sites for further reading:

http://www.kibush.co.il/

http://www.commongroundnews.org/

http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml

http://www.bitterlemons.org/

http://www.theheadlines.org

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