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Chanting in Tel-Aviv,
clubs
in Bil'in & different sorts of
boycotts
TOI-Billboard,
June 4, 2006
The Other Israel's email updates
39 years of occuption -- enough!
NO! to the policy of sanctions
& starvation
YES! to negotiations with the Hamas government 'Break their bones!' -- police clubs at
Bil’in
Adam Keller's report on the march and rally, June 3,
Tel-Aviv
(...) Of all the calls, the one which draws the biggest number of throats is “Peretz, Peretz, hey hey hey, How many kids did you kill today!”. Certainly, many have felt – just a short half a year ago – that Amir Peretz' surprise winning the Labor primaries on a dovish social justice platform was a breath of fresh air in Israeli politics – only to see him blithly assuming the Defence Ministry (which in Israel is in effect the Ministry of Occupation) and massively authorizing raids into Palestinian cities and bombings and bombardments and “liquidations”… In this angry chanting there was a sense of personal betrayal this crowd would not have felt towards another minister (...) The full report includies long quotes of
Shulamit Aloni's speech as well as those of the other speakers (with thanks
to Sol Salbe who sat translating in Australia while we did
our sleeping):
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Videos of the events in Tel-Aviv/Ramallah
June 3, march and rally in Tel-Aviv http://www.tv.social.org.il/nivcharim.htm
Raging Grannies at Tel-Aviv demo http://www.tv.social.org.il/music.htm Video footage of simultaneous Ramallah
demo
Still constantly updated information
about parallel actions worldwide – to the June 3 demonstration as well as the
planned June 10 convoy of food & medicines to Nablus
Jacob Katriel collected press photos
and links to online media reporting (relatively
good, but for the denigrating police estimate re the
turn-out -- apparently based on the
very start of people gathering for the
march). http://jacob-katriel.tripod.com/id13.html Several demonstrators
in Tel-Aviv and Ramallah had met the day before: in Bil'in--hotter every week
"Break their bones!" – police clubs at
Bil’in
Adam Keller's diary report Bil'in
on the Gush Shalom site
Report with photos
+ Eran Vered's video
In military prison now
(click on name for further
details):
Aviv Sela Eyad Raleb Sif Maayan Padan. read
more + what you can do http://www.newprofile.org/showdata.asp?pid=1076
Selection of
articles
--dealing with Hamas
government
--highlights of
the boycott
discussion
--dealing with Hamas
government
The Hamas Government Should Be Recognized
by
Tanya Reinhart Yediot Aharonot, translated from Hebrew by Mark
Marshall . Since the Oslo Accords, we Israelis
have become accustomed to the idea that negotiations with the Palestinian
Authority always revolve around the sole question of what is good for
Hamas' contradictory
voices
By Menachem Klein, Haaretz June 1, 2006 The political texts of Hamas indicate that at present the organization is not fundamentalist. For the fundamentalist everything is a matter of principle; he does not distinguish between tactics and strategy. He is certainly incapable of changing his position. But it should be emphasized that Hamas is not a moderate movement, but a radical one. It has a variety of voices, some of them contradictory. The radical voices are familiar enough, but we should get to know the others as well. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/722037.html Meeting
Hamas
Thoughts
after meeting with Hamas legislator Sheikh
Abu-Ter
Uri Avnery, June 3, 2006 (...) the job of the Israeli peace movements [is to build] the first bridge between Israelis and Hamas and pave the way for a dialogue between the Government of Israel and the Government of Palestine. More than half the population in the Palestinian territories voted for Hamas. Hamas is an existing fact. It will play a major role in any conceivable scenario. The majority of Israelis long for an end to the conflict, and so do the majority of Palestinians. Both governments must, in the end, accept this reality. Our task, to help them cross this bridge. Full text in
English http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1149374737
--highlights of
the boycott
discussion NATFHE approves academic boycott of
Israel Report by Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz,
May 29, 2006 http://www.labournet.net/ukunion/0605/natfhe11.html#2
By Baruch Kimmerling, Haaretz May
30, 2006 (...) an accelerated or abridged program for a certain
group of students, particularly members of the Shin Bet security service - like
the one approved last week by the humanities council - is inappropriate from
every perspective, and that is the concern of every member of our academic
community.
(...) Another factor, albeit not a decisive one, is the issue of the threatened boycott of Israeli higher education, which has caused and can cause no small damage. The threat is no small hypocrisy, as no one dared propose a boycott of American or British academic institutions after the invasion of Iraq, or Chinese academe for human rights violations. Nonetheless, cooperation of this sort between Israel's institutions for higher learning and the prominent representatives of the occupation could give new momentum and legitimacy to the initiative based on the argument that ties exist between education and the repression of Palestinians. But cooperation between the Shin Bet and the university should meet opposition not because of the boycott threat, but because of the crux of the matter. The Boycott of Palestinian Education:
Can the Anti-Boycotters
Please Stand Up?
Report, Right to
Education Campaign, The crux of the anti-boycott but pro-peace argument is that academia is one of the few places where constructive argument is possible, and Israeli academic freedom is the cornerstone for the push for change in Israeli policy and ultimately, for the end of military occupation in the Palestinian territories. The circle this argument fails to close is that without the
freedom of Palestinian education the prospect of any genuine dialogue on the
long-term solution to the conflict cannot materialise. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4761.shtml ...did it perhaps work? Shin Bet
staffers won't receive special B.A. from
At a
meeting of senior university staff on Tuesday, it was decided that the special
conditions enabling members of the Shin Bet to take many of their classes at an
installation belonging to the security organization were unacceptable.
The
program came under intense public scrutiny primarily for the special treatment
that was being granted to Shin Bet personnel by a respected academic
institution. full
text www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/722201.html
"Sanctions against
the occupation have a solid moral foundation" Israeli
citizens' letter to archbishop of (...) we support
disinvestment from any company that profits from the occupation. In light of the
ongoing human rights violations committed by our government in the occupied
territories, we believe that sanctions against the occupation have a solid moral
foundation.
The following was at the last moment put to our attention by
Dorothy Naor -- who wrote:
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz. 4th June 2006 (...) It would have been preferable had the opponents of the occupation in Israel not needed the intervention of external groups to fight the occupation. It is not easy to call upon the world to boycott your own country. It would have been better had there been no need for Rachel Corrie, James Miller and Tom Hurndall, bold people of conscience who paid with their lives after standing in front of the destructive bulldozers in Rafah. These young foreigners did the dangerous and vital work that Israelis should have done. The same is true for the few peace activists who still manage to roam the territories, to protest and offer assistance to the victims of the occupation in the framework of organizations like the International Solidarity Movement {ISM?) which Israel fights -- preventing its members from entering its borders. It would be better if Israelis mobilized to fight instead of them. But except for a few modest groups, there is no protest in Israel and no real mobilization. Thus, it only remains to hope for the world's help. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/722364.html TOI-Billboard updates you in between the issues of our printed newsletter. For more news on the struggle against the occupation, on the ground and in the media, there are the frequently updated sites + more links at
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/recommen.htm
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