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don't forget the backstage
TOI-Billboard - November
20, 2005
Frontstage - new general elections: the gladiators launch their campaigns
After for about a week capturing the headlines Amir Peretz' taking over Labor and forcing it to leave the government was sidelined by Sharon's "to leave or not to leave the Likud" game; meanwhile candidates for replacing him as Likud head are popping up like mushrooms, as do the "Likud-doves" and Labor hawks who want to join the PM's already legendary 'new party'. All in all: the pre-election paralysis of any diplomatic Middle-East moves was shortened by more than half a year, with a quite unpredictable race starting.
Backstage - no 'hot news', hardly reported at all on TV, sometimes sneaking into radio reports, as well as opeds of untiring columnists, but mostly from the alternative circuit:
- Extension of settlements, focus on connecting Jerusalem and
Ma'ale Adumim - girls, too, find themselves behind bars for refusing to serve the occupation
Action news: Protest in Bil'in
...AND DID YOU ALREADY SIGN THE PETITION?
NB: Google News is using the settlers' broadcast as a legitimate source of information, not only about the settlers, but also their version of left activities - see for example http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=bilin&btnG=Search+News: the 6th item about last week's demonstration against the fence in Bilin blames the violence totally on the demonstrators!. There is a possibility to protest in http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/request.py, click - "I want to report a problem with a news source listed in Google News" and file your complaint.
Expected protest at Tubas Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 10am residents of the Tubas area together with Israeli and international supporters will protest against Tyaseer checkpoint. Want to know why? go to http://www.palsolidarity.org/main or if it wasn't kept there, to:
Testimony of settler aggression against
harvesters Nov. 17 - Olive Harvest in Hawarta Nir is an activist who was more than
once himself attacked by settlers
Violent confrontation - three Bedouin women to hospital ...after Interior Ministry officials, accompanied by police forces arrived at
the unrecognized village http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/645808.html The Negev Coexistence Forum ( http://dukium.org ) organized on Saturday, Nov. 19 a solidarity visit in which also activists from other parts of the country participated.
'I went to see Palestinian ghettos' Vanunu nabbed on Palestinian bus - and after 24 hours released on bail http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3171629,00.html Visit also Vanunu's own
website: http://www.serve.com/vanunu/
Read about her principled struggle, supported by the
international war resisters, and how YOU can help background about Israeli refuser organizations http://oznik.com/news/021225.html
Tamera peace pilgrimage catching attention Translation of Haaretz
article about Sabine Lichtenfels Read more about
it
Denied entry in Israel for humanitarian aid worker The following is excerpted from a press
release received from: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 At 3am on the 14th November, Meri Calvelli, representative of the Italian NGO CRIC in the Gaza Strip, where she coordinates a development project co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was stopped at passport control, Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv on her way back to her work in Palestine after a brief stay in Italy. 26 hours later, after several gruelling interrogations, deliberate intimidation, humiliation, insults and threats by Israel security forces, she was put on a flight back to Italy. Both the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem and the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv intervened, sending the Italian Ambassador himself to the airport to try to mediate in the situation. Despite these efforts, the Israel Authorities were unforthcoming in stating the exact motive behind refusing Meri entry into Israel, giving the usual vague pretext - "for security reasons" (...) We didn't see any information about this in the Israeli media
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News & comments: ***The Peretz Ascendancy Sol Salbe includes different angles in his analysis http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00253.htm Ghost town
By Meron Rapoport A first visit to Hebron after almost
20 years. A strange feeling prevails when one exits the gate of Kiryat Arba,
descends in the direction of the Cave of the Patriarchs. It wasn't Shabbat, it
wasn't a Muslim holiday, it
was noontime, the weather was glorious, and the streets were empty. Along the road from Kiryat Arba to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood, a kilometer and a half of road that winds among old houses and market streets, we saw perhaps two Palestinians walking. "What's your impression?" asked the host,
Aryeh Klein of Hebron, after a while, after he had shown me the Sephardi
synagogue that was rebuilt from its ruins, and the museum of the 1929 massacre
in the basement of Beit Had assah, which is amazingly similar to the Yad Vashem
museum in Jerusalem. "What do you think of
Hebron?"
"It's like Pompeii," I
replied.
full text long and informative
article
The frog is
exhausted
By Amira Hass (...) Gideon Levy reports on children from
the south Hebron area, killed and wounded by an Israel Defense Forces phosphorus
shell. According to international law, the use of phosphorus shells in populated
areas is forbidden, Levy reminds his readers. The IDF Spokesman promises the use
of phosphorus shells is "only to mark boundaries and the boundaries of sectors,"
and that the IDF will scout the area and neutralize any shells or similar
devices, if found, for the safety of the residents. In other words, Levy
notified the army that there was a population in the area, and that when the
army leaves a training area it should neutralize any remaining dangerous
ammunition left behind. The report in the weekend paper passed without any other
media reaction to it, since it's just another Palestinian child who will be
killed and just another Palestinian child who will suffer dreadful pain because
of a wound, so it's not news. We've gotten used to it.
(...)
Rice Makes the Difference by David Dreilinger and IPF Staff (...) Wolfensohn put it into perspective on Tuesday: "If you are an envoy of the Quartet, you have a certain amount of possibilities in negotiations. If you are the Secretary of State of the United States, I would have to say that there is a little more clout associated with that and therefore, to push it over the edge, one needs not envoys but Secretaries of State." http://www.ipforum.org/display.cfm?id=10&Sub=12
Construction in West Bank continues despite road map By Nadav Shragai The Sharon Government is continuing the construction in the West Bank, despite claims it is in violation of the road map. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/646998.html Settlement expansion at full pace
Erica Chernofsky, Nov. 16, Jerusalem
Post in "Mofaz tours E1 area, Gush
Etzion"
Mofaz met with the heads of the
settlements and following his visit affirmed that the government will continue
to strengthen the large settlements blocks, according to the Defense Ministry
spokeswoman.
Court orders Ramle to
renew bus service for Arab children
By Zvi Harel For one gunman,
it??™s a ballot over bullets
by Matthew Gutman
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