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Elections time in the wild Middle East This week Elections in the air, in both Israel and
Palestine.
The
elections' background: the restarted IDF assassinations policy - always accounts are found to be settled
- and the predictable flare-up of Palestinian answers in kind. Even
without that, elections under occupation do not express to the same extent
the principles of democracy as elections in an independent
country. Fatah's most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, is languishing
in prison. Maybe if he was free and if Israel wouldn't weaken the
Palestinian Authority in all possible ways, Hamas would not have it so easy
to win city after city.
The Israeli call to exclude Hamas from the
general elections is simply more oil on the fire. And the hastily-produced US Congress resolution telling the Palestinian Authority either to
exclude Hamas from the general elections or face a stop of American
aid, shows more panic than wisdom, and is a self-inflicted insult for the
Americans as 'the flagbearers of democracy'.
Elections without Hamas a farce, like US
elections without Republicans
Read full text
of Gush Shalom press release:
PA 'categorically rejects' US Congress
resolution
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309596648&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Fatah, offshoot party to discuss
uniting slates FM Shalom: Hamas victory precludes return to road map Beilin, Ayalon blame Sharon for Hamas gains http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/658901.html More on elections and
polls
49% of Israelis support sharing Jerusalem Robert Rosenberg, Today's Situation, Dec.
16
Bil'in
and the Friday evening
news
The struggle of Bil'in - more or less a fixed item. This
week's emphasis was on the expansion of the Modi'in Illit settlement at the
expense of the lands of the Bil'in farmer community. The ultra-orthodox
settlement already drew media attention - when earlier this
week was revealed that Defence Minister Mofaz, days before his defection to
Sharon's Kadima Party, had campaigned inside the Likud by handing out
permits for the building of hundreds more settler houses. Speaking
about the Road Map...
ISM Volunteer Injured in Bil??™in
Attorney Anna Maria, 61, a Spanish peace activist, was injured
during the December 16th protest against the Separation Wall and settlement
separation Wall and settlements
Army frustrated because of media
exposure
Bil'in 16-12-05 report by Ilan Shalif
of Anarchists Against Fences
http://www.ainfos.ca/05/dec/ainfos00203.html ***
Read more:
Targeted killings futile
Open letter by Yigal Sarena to Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin Yediot Aharononot, Dec. 15, 2005 (...) Which brings me to my main point: Our return to the days of targeted killings. After a break in which we've started to live and breathe again, you've decided to return us to those terrible years, 2002-03. It's as if we've learned nothing. English translation: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3184783,00.html Peretz camp: Sharon wants
terror
Attila Somfalvi
Labor party leader??™s campaign manager says prime minister has power to decide whether terror attacks continue, uses security threats to deflect attention from other issues (...) After assassinations, there are terror attacks. More assassinations equal more attacks." Immunity was a
mistake
By Yuval Shany Background: the civil suit filed in New York
against Avi Dichter, former head of the Shin Bet security
service
The recent amendment to
Israeli law, which retroactively denies the right of Palestinians to submit
"intifada suits" related to damages caused them after September 2000, means that
there is nothing to prevent the filing of corresponding damages suits in the
United States.
Former IDF chief:
War crimes suit won't disrupt U.S. stay
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Dec. 16 Israel Defense Forces chief of staff
Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon is not letting a civil lawsuit filed against him
over war crimes disrupt his stay in the United States, Israel Radio reported
Friday. The class-action lawsuit brought by a group of Lebanese nationals was
filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Ya'alon is
serving as a research fellow at the Washington Institute. He was
scheduled to give a lecture on lessons learned during the war against terror at
a Thursday night conference.
State of decay
by KM Azmi Bishara
Sharon's new party did not cause a political earthquake in Israel; it
expresses a mood and attitude that has prevailed among the Israeli right since
the first Intifada. Large segments of the Israeli right have reached the
conviction that Israel needs the establishment of a Palestinian state-like
entity in order to extricate Israel from its demographic predicament. This
conviction, however, stops well short of the conclusions that the creation of
such a Palestinian state requires Israel's withdrawal to the pre-June 1967
borders, the dismantlement of all Israeli settlements and the recognition of the
Palestinian right to
return. (...) The creation of a new party (..) is perfectly valid from the standpoint of political party politics. What is not valid is the conclusion that Sharon has changed or that there
is now a move in Israel towards a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian
cause.
One could only wish that old friend Haim Hanegbi had read these words
carefully before writing his own:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658548.html Occupation dragging down IDF
morals
David Zonshein
We must tell Brig. Gen. A: You are
confused. Your soldiers, fresh from combat action in Kabatia and not wanting to
take part in any more assassinations ??“ are not traitors to be shot in the back.
Quite the opposite.
This week's choice by Occupation
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