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No quiet without a Palestinian
interest in
quiet
TOI-Billboard, June 26, 2006
The Other Israel's email updates Listening this evening to Israel's Second Channel TV
news, one starts to doubt whether captured soldier Gil'ad Shalit stands much
chance of being released soon. PM Olmert declared firmly that the Israeli
government is not willing to think even about any prisoners exchange and that
drastic military measures are being prepared.
It's perhaps
remarkable that the next speaker on same TV is senior Hamas member
Razi Khamad, spokesperson for the Palestinian government, who speaks good Hebrew. He starts with reassuring the
soldier's mother that her son is alive and being taken care of well. Following
item: the Palestinian parents of prisoners, waving their sons'
pictures.
What is
apparently worrying our authorities especially is that the June 25 attack was
not something which could be called "a terrorist attack"; it was an attack on an
IDF unit and army representatives spoke of the professionality of this
enemy operation.
This is not going
to end the already sky-high escalation in the Gaza Strip, which until yesterday
costed a lot of (Palestinian) civilian lives and doesn't allow the
people in Sderot a day without Qassams. Especially after such a successful
Palestinian military operation the Israeli army will want to increase its
deterrence.
Or could the
scales be turned by such people as Rabbi Menachem Froman, in a long-time
politico-religious dialogue with Hamas Muslim leaders, and bereaved
father Yitzchak Frankenthal*, whose soldier son Arik was kidnapped and killed in
1994? The two of them declared on the radio - not only that the government
should talk to Hamas, but that they themselves are ready to mediate on behalf of
the release of Gil'ad Shalit. Also Arab Israeli Knesset Member Ibrahim Tzartzour
(Islamic Movement) requested permission of the government to enter Gaza for this
purpose.
Yesterday Gush
Shalom sent out a press release and called upon the government
to behave as is usual in the case of prisoners of war - and not
treat it as a kidnapping - and achieve his release by negotiating with the
Palestinian elected government.
*The latest news is that Yitzchak Frankental has offered the
Hamas: Take me instead, and let the boy go.
Among all the reactions in
the Israeli media, the following of a Yediot Aharonot columnist is outstanding;
it appears however only on the English-language Ynet-News on the
internet
'No quiet without a Palestinian interest in
quiet'
Ofer Shelah - Ynet News: It may not be nice to say, but world will have
hard time condemning Kerem Shalom
attack.
Read also Ze'ev Schiff's article
Outsmarted by a
tunnel
Can Israel negotiate with PA
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) when he is incapable of preventing
Palestinian attacks on Israel? (...) Is the Hamas government a better place than
for Israel to turn in an effort to win the release of the wounded soldier who
has been abducted? Israel says it will not negotiate with Hamas, but for the
sake of saving the soldier, it will certainly agree to indirect mediation, and
the Egyptians have offered their services.
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The following had just before appeared as ad in
Ha'aretz, 23.6.2006
It is a soldier's right and
duty to refuse to shed innocent blood.
We, combat soldiers and officers of the Israeli Defence
Forces, have served long years on various fronts
and lost comrades in the struggle to defend our
homeland. The security of Israel and the values of the
IDF were and are our guiding principles.
We call upon IDF regular and reserve troops - pilots,
sailors and artillerymen - to refuse to shoot on Gaza.
The IDF shooting on Gaza has already caused the death of
dozens of innocent civilians, including little
children. It has achieved nothing but intensification of
the shooting of Qassam rockets on Sderot and
stoking the fires of hatred against Israel.
Shooting into the world's most thickly populated area is
a war crime which contravenes the spirit of the
IDF and harms the security of the state.
We call upon the soldiers of the IDF to refuse to break
the State of Israel's moral spine.
True security would never be achieved by the killing of
children. It is the right and duty of every soldiers
in the IDF to refuse to shed innocent
blood.
Ometz Le'sarev - Courage to Refuse: Refusing - for the sake of
Israel www.seruv.org.il Bil'in this week
Miriam Woodward looks at it with fresh eyes.
***
Some succes at the
legal front:
High Court orders IDF to protect
Palestinian farmers from settlers
The High Court of Justice ruled Monday that the government and Israel Defense Forces must act to ensure the safety
of Palestinian farmers working their fields and [not to prevent] them from
reaching
their fields [in
the case of] settler attacks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/731503.html ***
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Israelis: boycott us - to free them and us from the
occupation
The Israeli letter supporting CUPE
Ontario's decision to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom and boycott
Israel still daily receives more signatures. Among the names, those of
professors, artists, kibbutzniks and a lot of peace activists of a variety of
organizations.
Text and signatories at: http://www.geocities.com/liveletlive2001/letter_to_CUPE.htm Another letter to CUPE - by
the TOI editors NB: TOI editors Adam Keller and Beate
Zilversmidt, though both also member in Gush Shalom, did not write
this letter as such. Gush Shalom campaigns since 1996 for a boycott of
settlement products, which was initiatlly very controversial but enjoys now wide
support in the peace camp. Gush Shalom does not take position in other than
that. http://www.kibush.co.il/ (articles and action news, worth looking at
daily - English, but also Hebrew)
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/ (informing especially about anti-Wall struggle in the
villages)
http://www.ariga.com/ (on workdays: a summary of the "peace" issues in
the Israeli media)
http://www.theheadlines.org/ (a variety of papers,
followed dayly by Shadi Fadda)
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml (Palestinian press
agency, including own research)
+ more links at
http://www.geocities.com/toi_billboard/recommen.htm
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