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Subject: [TOI-Billboard] Paradoxical perspectives & grim struggle - May27, 2006


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Tom Toles cartoon Washington Post, May 26, 2006 
"There's no talking to those unreasonable people. So we'll just have
to decide for ourselves where on their property to build the fence."
"To protect ourselves from their inexplicable wrath."
 
 
Paradoxical perspectives & grim struggle
TOI-Billboard, May 27, 2006
The Other Israel's email updates
 
Olmert speaking of peace in Washington, while on the same day Ramallah is invaded by undercover agents, and four stonethrowing youths killed. Abu Mazen showing his last trump card to the Hamas: a referendum. Meanwhile, our Palestinian friends who never before lost their good spirits start sounding really hungry.

Is this the slow-motion wiping of the map of the Palestinians? Or, is what we see right now the Palestinian regaining of power points - an effort which costs them dearly?

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Israel
should try to negotiate a long-term truce with Hamas.[Former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy]
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/720295.html

The latest on the joint Palestinian-Israeli-internationals anti-Wall struggle
+ selection of news & and articles
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/
http://www.kibush.co.il/

Our selection:

Countdown to Apartheid

 
Jeff Halper May 25, 2006
 
Just as Orwell’s totalitarian propagandists proclaimed WAR IS PEACE and Israeli government signs placed at the Wall (sorry, fence) at the entrance to Bethlehem greet Palestinians with the blessing PEACE BE UNTO YOU, so Olmert declared in Washington: UNILATERAL REALIGNMENT IS PEACE.
 
 
 

Missed Opportunities (Partial List)

Uri Avnery May 27, 2006

"THE PALESTINIANS never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity!" - this phrase, coined by Abba Eban, has become a by-word. It also illustrates a wise Talmudic saying: "He who finds fault in others (really) finds his own faults."

http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/Avnery_eng.rtf

 

Mightier than the sword

 
Lily Galili Ha'aretz Weekend Magazine, May 26, 2006
 
The conversation took place in the garden of Fares Halas' home, at the foot of a pretty fountain built by the homeowner. A kind of paradise in the middle of a neighborhood that looks like a large garbage dump, and which has turned into disputed land following the entry into the village of a group of Jewish settlers from the Elad Association - the main aim of which is to judaize the City of David, which is part of Silwan. Thus, this is the equation: The more sanctity a place has, the more neglected it is. Maybe the Arabs will take the hint and leave.
 
 
 
New Old Games
 
Adam Keller The Other Israel, May 2006, editorial overview
 
'Separation' is now the byword in Israel. Declaring that "there is no (Palestinian) partner", politicians embark on ever-new programs and projects of unilateral actions, and the Separation Wall/Fence/Barrier grows ever higher and cuts ever deeper into Palestinian territory. But rather than disentangling, it is only intensifying the lethal embrace in which the two peoples are trapped.
 
Full text of this three-month analysis now available at:
 
 
Two-state solution
-discredited, without workable alternative-
 
Beate Zilversmidt The Other Israel, May 2006
 
 The Oslo process, which in 1993 had aroused such expectations on both sides, deteriorated because of the overcautiousness of Rabin. His great merit was that he built relations of trust with the Palestinians — but whenever it came to implementation of what was agreed upon he dragged his feet; the expression "there are no holy dates" was his.
 
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Now The Hague's okay?
 
Zohair Androus Yediot's Ynet News May 26, 2006
 
To the esteemed diplomats preparing the case against Ahmadinejad: If the International Court of Justice in the Hague has no jurisdiction over your wall, why do you consider it such a competent authority with regard to Iran? Can somebody please explain to me Israel's double standard with regard to The Hague – The ICJ is great when it serves my interests, but it is too biased to rule cases I could stand to lose?
 
 
To hell with charisma
 
Doron Rosenblum Ha'aretz weekend, May 26, 2006


Either there is an "overall agreement" within two days that will put a final, messianic end to the conflict at all its layers, or there's "no partner" and that's it: no dialogue, not even talk.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/719982.html

 
Not such a light unto the nations 
 
Rabbi Michael Lerner Ha'aretz May 15, 2006
 
(...) there is no "individual solution" for you or me as people, and there is no "national solution" for Israel or the Jewish people that doesn't depend on providing for the economic, cultural, political and spiritual fulfillment of everyone else.
 
 
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