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Subject: The protests go on, just as the bombings -TOI-Billboard, April 15 - April15, 2006


The protests go on, just as the bombings...
TOI-Billboard, April 15, 2006
The Other Israel's email updates
 
--While most Israelis were busy with their Pesach cleaning the unscrupled bombing of Gaza went on - without bringing an end to the shooting of the clumsy Qassam rockets, and without getting much media attention. Defense Minister Mofaz seems right now to escalate as much as he can, in the hope of preventing that - with coalition negotiations going on - his job will be given to Labor's Amir Peretz ("in such a critical situation the Defence Ministry must remain in the hands of a former general")...
 
On the eve before the holiday - after an 8-year old girl got killed inside her home and her pregnant mother wounded - in Tel-Aviv protesters walked the sea shore demanding a cease-fire.
 
Stop the madness
Report of a protest march by Adam Keller
 
(...) We walk northwards along the esplanade. The late afternoon sun, slowly sinking into the Mediterranean, is a pleasant and harmonious sight - so utterly at odds with the horrors out of Gaza. Youngsters burst out with "All ministers are war criminals!" and "Olmert to the Hague!"
 
In its Friday Ha'aretz Gush Shalom spoke of war crimes being perpetrated in Gaza
(scroll down a bit at http://www.gush-shalom.org )
 
See also the Kleinberg op-ed in our selection of articles following hereafter
 
--Every day teams of Israeli women - Machsom Watch - monitor the many notorious checkpoints and write it all down in meticulous reports.    It's all in their site; visit now and see the exposition with many photos and video footage. Without showing bloodshed,prhibitthis series of photos conveys the impact of daily humiliation; the exposition was already in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv but was prohibited by the Be'er Sheva Municipality.
 
--Meanwhile we were informed by Bedouin campaigner Nuri el-Okbi about a protest tent as focus of the struggle of his tribe

 

(...) enormous government resources are spent for the creation of “Giv’ot Bar”, a community earmarked for the settlement of Jews on el-Okbi tribal land which was our fathers’ and their fathers’ fathers. Looking in the other direction we can see how in another part of our ancestral land there are brought in Bedouins of another tribe, Tarabin a-Sana, whom the authorities want to remove from where they now live, in order to expand the affluent Be'er Sheba suburb of Omer. We have nothing against either these nor these. The whole of our legitimate and elementary demand is to be allowed to create an agricultural community on the part of our ancestral land which is still free – an agricultural community of our own, rather then being “concentrated” into the government’s “Bedouin Townships”, a “solution” which we  completely reject (...) full press release http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Okbi.htm

 
--The struggle of Bil'in against the Wall continues already for more than a year. The devoted Bil'iners as well as their Israeli and international friends succeeded this week to catch the attention of the most read Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. A six page-article in the weekend supplement answers the question  why Israeli youngsters "from bourgeois families" spent their Fridays confronting the army, including the case of Matan Cohen who is still not fully recovered from the bullet in his eye. Alas, no link exists to this Hebrew-only article nor was it so far translated... 
For continuous reporting of the antiWall struggle at different villages: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/
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...and then, some articles which you may want to read:
 
 

War on Qassams not kosher

Aviad Kleinberg, Yediot April 11
 
(...) IDF attacks almost always strike the innocent. The reason they are being fired is psychological. They are intended to give Israelis a nice feeling for the beginning of Pesach – "See, the IDF isn't sitting on its hands. Quite the opposite, the army is using what the media admiringly calls its 'iron fist', and is striking painful blows to the innocent."
 
 
The last conquest of Jerusalem
 
Gideon Lichfield e.a., Apr 12th 2006 - The Economist
 
 (...) After millennia of violent conquest and reconquest, Jerusalem, centre of pilgrimage, crucible of history and the world's oldest international melting-pot, is changing hands once more, but with a slow and quiet finality. Israel redrew the municipal boundary after the 1967 war to enclose some of the West Bank land that it had occupied, a de facto (though not internationally recognised) annexation.
  Settlements like Har Homa gradually encroached on the empty spaces. In 2002, as the second intifada raged, and central Jerusalem took the brunt of suicide bombings, Israel started building the West Bank barrier or wall, supposedly to keep out Palestinian bombers. But its route, enclosing Palestinian as well as Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem (see map), suggested another purpose too.
 

 
TOI-Billboard updates you in between the issues of our printed newsletter. For more frequent  news on the struggle against the occupation, on the ground and in the media, there are the daily updated sites http://www.kibush.co.il , http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/, http://www.ariga.com , http://www.theheadlines.org/ + more links at  http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/recommen.htm 
 
Addresses where to send occupation protest letters  http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/gov_addrs.txt
 
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