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About musical chairs and what happens meanwhile The Other Israel's weekly email updates o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o This week -musical chairs-
So, Sharon really went ahead to split the
Likud and form his own party. And it was
another week that the inner Israeli party politics were frontstage.
To judge from the polls (official and
unofficial ones) towards the March elections the big struggle is
going to be between Sharon and Peretz, and the official Likud Party would hardly
matter. But even if this trend persists, one should not underestimate the
possibility that after the elections Sharon's new "Kadima" party
would reunite with the rump of the Likud, thus gathering more votes than a
united Likud could have. Labor hawks, such as Haim Ramon, who join
Sharon whould not have joined the Likud. But there was also good news: the internationally-renowned
economist and Ben-Gurion University president Avishai Braverman - after
having been courted by Sharon who offered him the finance ministry -
announced his joining the ranks of the Labor Party
(in a spectacular press conference held together with newly-elected
Amir Peretz).
-East-Jerusalem houses razed to the
ground -- Daewoo demolisher photographed-
On the same day that Sharon declared his new
party - the Jerusalem municipality embarked upon a mass demolition
of Palestinian homes. Read the sad report by ICAHD activists who were
at the site and made pictures.
With
it being clearly visible that the destruction was perpetrated with a Daewoo
machine Gush Shalom wrote a letter to the Daewoo company: http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Letter_to_Daewoo.htm addresses
where to send your own protest:
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/daewoo_addresses.htm and the usual addresses for occupation protest: -struggle against the wall The struggle against the wall manifested
itself this week in different villages - the locations defined
by where the bulldozers turn up. But Bil'in's constant struggle, already
lasting eight months, at last got serious media coverage: The Channel 1
weekly news of Friday, Nov. 25, contained a 10-minute item
by veteran reporter Menachem Hadar. Unlike other Bil'in media reports that
focused primarily on the demos and the violent oppression of the protest, this
report was mainly on the political/settlement context, reporting
on the connections between the route of the wall in Bil'in and the expansion of
the nearby settlement, Modi'in Illit and the huge financial benefits to
construction companies. Hadar included interviews with Uri Avnery, who called
Bil'in the Stalingrad of the Palestinians, and with the undaunted activist Adar
Grayevsky, who got a dose of tear gas just before. Earlier this week: Yachad KM Roman Bronfman
visited Bil'in, saying that he felt "shame and anger" seeing as an
Israeli the reality there.
Descriptions
& photographs of the demonstrtaions in Aboud and
Bil'in:
***
More news and articles: Kibbutz volunteers help Palestinians restore olive
groves
About 11 volunteers from the kibbutz movement are
helping Palestinians in the Salem Village oin the West Bank restore their olive
groves that were destroyed by settlers. About 300
trees has been uprooted and another 200 torched.
"Who is the coward here?" "Me,
Sir!"
Yedioth Ahronoth, Thursday, Nov.
24
Three soldiers refuse to take part in
counter-terror operation, tell
commander they fear for their life by Yossi Yehoshua
Minutes before the start of an IDF operation in
Jenin to arrest a senior
suspect of the Islamic Jihad terror group, an officer and two soldiers [of an elite combat unit] fearing for their lives, told their commander they do not wish to take part in the action, read
more:
Human Rights Observer to be Deported
from Hebron
Nov. 24, 2005
A Human Rights Observer (HRO) from the UK was arrested in Tel Rumeida,
Hebron earlier today. He had just finished escorting Palestinian children to
school and was walking home on Shuhaddah street when he was stopped by an armed
Border Police unit in a targeted arrest.
read more
A Hebrew Gush Shalom press
release of that same day ended with:
It's a shame that Jewish
settlers attack and frighten Palestinian children on the way to and from school
It's a shame that the army allows settlers to do so. It's a shame that there are needed foreign observers to accompany the Palestinian children But the biggest shame of all: after our settlers' misbehavior and the authorities unwillingness to prevent them - to deport the foreigner who does what should not have been needed, and to let the settlers stay in Hebron. At the time of writing
the human right's activist is still
detained.
In this context should be read following news item of
today, Saturday Nov. 26:
There are thousands of cases where wives from the
PA are prohibited to live with their husband and children!!! How can they, their
mother is an illegal alien. If the family is caught together, in their car for
instance, the car can be impounded and even severe punishment expected for the
husband, up to imprisonment! (...)
Frankenthal's plan of
campaign:
EU Report:
Several inter-linked Israeli policies are reducing the possibility of
reaching a
final status agreement on Jerusalem
1. East Jerusalem is of central importance to the Palestinians in
political, economic, social and religious terms. Several inter-linked Israeli
policies are reducing the possibility of reaching a final status agreement on
Jerusalem, and demonstrate a clear Israeli intention to turn the annexation of
East Jerusalem into a concrete fact (...)
2. The plan to expand the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim into the so-called
"E1" area, east of Jerusalem (...)
4. Israel's activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap
obligations and international law.
for a 'comprehensive
summary':
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=9976 Lurch to the Left
Israeli politics were and are still steeped in
colonialist logic. Movement to the left in our context means a growing
understanding that the occupation of the Palestinian territories is not, in its
present parameters, sustainable. Current evidence indicates that the shift
is
for real and is finding expression in a sea change in the prevalent discourse. *** NB: the following link is
useful for anybody who wants to send protest letters about the occupation; you
can make it a favorite; it will be updated regularly:
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