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About sheep fodder and
long-imprisoned COs, and more
TOI-Billboard - November
1, 2005
-assesment of the situation, action
updates, translations from the Hebrew press-
"Last week, all over the Palestinian territories, the miserable living conditions were made even worse. That looks like collective punishment, which is forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Convention. But in reality, it was something worse: the aim is to sow despair among the Palestinians, bring them to their knees, compel them to accept Sharon's diktat - to be content with 42% of the West Bank (11% of pre-1948 Palestine) in several enclaves - and, ultimately, to convince them to emigrate altogether." From 'Abbas and the Lame Duck', Uri Avnery, 29.10.05 http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1130672987
Meanwhile also this week Palestinians in Bil'in were lifted from
their beds and arrested because of their participation in the Friday non-violent
anti-Wall protests (see ISM archive in the end); and the Rabbis for Human Rights
organize, day after day, olive harvest support for farmers in different
villages suffering from settler harassment. And here follow some other examples of
the day to day struggle.
Aqaba - the sheep
are back, but what will they eat; refusers in prison; an artilleryman's outcry;
an update about imprisoned Palestinian women; why Vanunu should have gotten
the prize; manifestly immoral booms - and
more...
Aqaba - the sheep are
back, but what will they
eat?
Two weeks ago Gush Shalom sent out an urgent appeal
on behalf of the shepherds of Aqaba village. Though never did anybody of the
tiny village ever participate even in stone-throwing, they are for
years targeted by the army. The military sees
this environment as 'a strategic area'
and the location of Aqaba as an obstacle.
Protest phones, faxes and emails from all over the
world were aimed at the release of the confiscated fifty
sheep belonging to the Dabak family. The sheep were eventually released,
but meanwhile we were informed that since then the shepherds are prevented from
grazing them in the fields around ('security reasons'). Therefore Haj Sami Sadek
- the Aqaba Mayor - asked us to publish a call for donations, to help them
buy fodder for the sheep which are on the brink of
starving.
More details in the
October 17 Gush Shalom appeal:
On the website of
the Rebuilding
Alliance you find a film by Amir Terkel about Aqaba
http://4blacksheep.com/clients/rebuilding_alliance/Aqabeh_April_2005.mov How to send your 'sheep
fodder donation': Or by bank transfer
to: For enquiries with Mayor
Sadek: *** CO Alex Cohn starts ninth
term Since the beginning of this year, young Tel-Avivian Alex Cohn is going in and out of the military prison for his refusal to be part of an army of occupation. The method is simple and repetititve: Alex gets to the recruitment center, is ordered to enlist, refuses, and is rushed through a 'instant trial' held in camera at an officer's bureau without lawyer, witnesses or anything resembling a due judicial process, and lasting about five minutes. At the end, he is sentenced to a month in prison, after which he comes back and the process repeats itself. There is nothing in the law preventing the army from repeating this for the next thirty or forty years. The only limitation is Israeli and international public opinion which so far showed unfortunately very little interest. To read about the others, imprisoned with him, and what you can do from your writing desk: http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/refusnik_update.htm *** A manifestly immoral supersonic boom
With one aerial foray, Halutz managed to unite
the babies of Gaza and Holon in one big trauma.
By Oren Reis
Published at October 30 on the Hebrew website
Y-Net affiliated to Yediot Aharonot, but not on their parallel English-language
website. English translation provided by TOI.
Undoubtedly, this unfocused weapon causes fears
and traumas among many children, at Khan Yunes and Nahal Oz. Palestinian or
Israeli, a child is a child and waking up from a terrible noise which makes
the entire parental home shake does not conduct to a healthy development. Facing
the Jihad threats to "shake Israel", the Air Force took pre-emptive action and
itself shook up our population centres together with those of our adversaries.
On the way to implementing this nefarious tactic, some moral values had been
eroded even further.
full text:
In
Gaza are living people - not cardboard toys!
The following protest
against the shelling of Gaza was circulated in Hebrew on one of the Israeli
Tapuz Discussion Forums and apparently comes from within the
rmy.
Translation:
TOI.
Hi, I ask you to spread this! To as many people as possible! We have already collected some signatures, I ask any artilleryman who wants to join to contact me at simlev81@walla.com. I am worried and ask for your
support!
Thanks, hoping for a more sane time. We must stop the madness! This time you won't be able
to say "I didn??™t know".
This time you would not be able to say that it was a mistake by the gunlayer, the aimer, the battery commander or the Central Fire Control. Mistakes, disasters and murders by the Artillery are facts of the past and a danger for the future! The Artillery Corps is not an effective tool for the task now imposed on it. At such a thickly-populated area as Gaza, artillery pieces are nothing but a danger to the population - and also a danger to us, to our international image. Setting an artillery battery to shell targets in
the heart of a civilian population will inevitably, sooner or later, lead to a
terrible disaster which will hand an enormous victory to the Hamas and
Jihad.
Sooner or later, a shell will go off course and
kill dozens or even hundreds of Palestinian civilians, most of them completely
innocent. Israel will be placed at the pillory and possibly be even subjected
to international sanctions.
A single fiasco is all it would take to place the
Hamas and Jihad at the very gates of the political victory which they
desire.
There will be intensive international involvement in the Territories, aimed at protecting the Palestinians people from Israeli brutality and massacres. We will, of course, claim that it was nothing but a regrettable mistake, completely unintended. But nobody will listen to us - and rightly so. The price in blood resulting from this inevitable
coming fiasco will be unforgivable.
We will not be able to deal with another massacre of civilians like that at Kanna Village in Lebanon, in 1996, where more than a hundred human beings were murdered by a single artillery shell. We, fighters of the Artillery Corps, make our
call loud and clear:
Restrain Defence Minister Mofaz and his
friends!
Don??™t let our fighting comrades become the "unintended" mass murderers of civilians! In Gaza there are living people, not cardboard toys! Remember - a stray shell is a victory for
terror!
***
About new and not so new Palestinian women prisoners
WOFPP October newsletter
Read about how WOFPP's
lawyer Taghrid Gahshan is prevented from entering the prisons; about the
continuing campaign to release Manal - and a lot
more:
***
You can calm down, there will be
war!
By Ofer Shelach [Yediot Aharonot editorial, October 30] How long, and for which real goal, can we live with perpetual suspiciousness and arrogance of power, blind faith in naked power and self-righteousness that justifies every misdeed? How long can we go on telling ourselves that there are no partners for peace nor ever will be, and calm ourselves down only with the certainty of war? full
translation:
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/shelach_Oct30.htm And anti-nuclear Nobel Peace Prize - but
not to Vanunu
By Gideon Spiro
Translated for Occupation Magazine by Mark
Marshall
This year the calculations were that the prize would be related to the
nuclear issue, because of the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they turned out to be correct. (...) If
there is a person who is deserving of the Nobel Prize for Peace for his struggle
against nuclear weapons, Mordechai Vanunu is the man.
full English
text:
Hebrew
original:
***
Recommended sites for further
reading:
Occupation Magazine translations from Hebrew and Arabic selection of significant analysis worldwide
The electronic Intifada - a Palestinian site which keeps you upated of the latest news - http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
MachsomWatch Member - Coalition of Women for Peace Continuous checkpoint monitoring & reporting - order the weekly digests from noralbendersky@yahoo.com
ISM archive chronicles of daily events http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/ Bitter Lemons Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in the form of articles
Shadi Fadda's daily press selections - order them to your email from f_shadi@yahoo.com
Weekly occupation statistics
Opinion pages of Ha'aretz English with daily a choice of interesting articles o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
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