Friday, August 13, 2004

Happenings

Happenings
This weeks events: click on the links for the full stories
Susan Brannon
August 13, 2004

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The only game in town by Sima Kadmon, Yediot Aharonot, August 13 This week, there was an intensive debate in "The Majority Headquarters", the coalition of political parties and extra parliamentary movements which organized the giant rally at Rabin Square two months ago.

  • Israeli-Palestinian summer youth camp in Austria On August 11, the Kol Yisrael radio morning news magazine reported on an Israeli-Palestinian youth summer camp held in Austria, with some hundred participants - Israelis from Hasomer HaTzair [loosely connected to the the Meretz/Yahad Party] and the Learning and Working Youth [affiliated to the Histadrut, Israel's trade-union federation] and Palestinians from  the Red Crescent Youth.
  • Saturday, August 7, Arafat made a proposal to the Israeli government via a visiting Gush Shalom delegation: Palestinian elections, general cease-fire, negotiations.
    http://www.gush-shalom.org/pr/pr7-8-2004-eng.html
  • Monday, August 09, The Israeli Supreme Court rejected LAURA MILO'S petition to be granted a conscientious exemption from the Israeli army. More on the bitter struggle of the conscript COs:
    http://www.refuz.org.il/
  • Tuesday, August 10, B’Tselem created a media uproar by issuing its report "The Forbidden Road Regime in the West Bank - An Apartheid Practice". From: Summary at: http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/Forbidden_Roads_2004.asphttp://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/Forbidden_Roads_2004.asp
  • Sunday, Aug. 8, we received information that Nea Nabhan and her two sons, Mohammed and Samah al-Masri were expelled from the West Bank town of Jericho to Gaza City .    The reason given:  "the woman carrying an identity card issued in Gaza should not stay in the West Bank unless she had a permit from the Israeli army to move from Gaza to the West Bank ."  Nabhan has been living in Jericho with her husband - who does hold an identity card issued in the West Bank .  
  • Also August 8,  former deputy Mossad director, Shmuel Toledano, attacked  Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon saying that the IDF under his leadership had lost its morality and military ethics. More in:  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/461995.html
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/461995.html
  • Monday, August 09, The Israeli Supreme Court rejected LAURA MILO'S petition to be granted a conscientious exemption from the Israeli army. More on the bitter struggle of the conscript COs:  http://www.refuz.org.il/
    http://www.refuz.org.il/
  • Tuesday, August 10, B’Tselem created a media uproar by issuing its report "The Forbidden Road Regime in the West Bank - An Apartheid Practice". From: Summary at:http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/Forbidden_Roads_2004.asp
  • Wednesday, August 11, a tour of MK's and members of the press was organized by Peace Now visiting the illegal outposts that are NOT included in the official lists distributed by the Defense Ministry. From: See also: http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/homepage.asp?pi=25
    http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/homepage.asp?pi=25
  • Wednesday August 11, a British journalist was detained at Ben-Gurion International Airport denied entry by the Security Forces on the grounds that "she is a left-wing activist who could not be objective in her portrayal of local events and who could unknowingly assist violent organizations" (Haaretz).
    The journalist, 26-year-old Eva Jasiewicd, was interrogated for seven hours  by
    Defense Ministry officials. The questioning resulted in a ministry decision to deport her from Israel within days.

    "The truck that was to refurnish the construction site with bricks got stuck in the check-point and the work on the construction site was therefore somewhat delayed. However work in the house proceeded smoothly and fast in the afternoon" - a quotation from the daily ICAHD reports about the international workcamp at Anata, where volunteers are rebuilding the Kabu'ah family’s home; full reports available from lucia@icahd.org lucia@icahd.org
  • About 1000 Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis continued day after day their March Against the Wall. An activist from New York (Karl) was detained and released on condition that he would not further participate in the march but mostly the army and
    border police were unable to stop the marchers. The number of chanting and singing protesters was simply  too much. From: See also: http://www.palsolidarity.org/

    In the name of Zionist values   By David Zonshein Aug. 10

    "(...) after hundreds of days of service in the territories, as a soldier and a commander, and after I had been an active partner in the destructive policy that has crushed any value in which I was educated and turned me into an active partner in harming the security of the state (...)"

    Full text
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/462531.html

    Some Order in the Mess  Uri Avnery on "Gaza Disengagement"
    http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article316.html

    A unilateral danger - By Zvi Bar'el

    "To disengage from Gaza peacefully requires disengaging from the slogan
    according to which there is no Palestinian partner." [The political insider Bar'el  comes to a conslusion not so different from the one of Avnery!]

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/461645.html

    Labor's acquiescence - By Amira Hass

    [this article can be seen as complementary to the Bar'el one - from the Palestinian ground]

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/463077.html

    Putting a stop to checkpoint cruelty (Haaretz editorial Mon., August 09)
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/462086.html

    IDF Demolishes Three Archeological Buildings in Hebron 
    http://www.palestinemonitor.org/new_web/august_update_archive.htmhttp://www.palestinemonitor.org/new_web/august_update_archive.htm 
    Tuesday August 10, 2004

    In response to the White City celebrations in Tel Aviv, a group in Jaffa is offering an alternative look at the city's history.

    Whitewash -- By Esther Zandberg

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Jaffa&itemNo=463608

    The Presbyterian Church in the United States advocates divestment from all companies profiting from the harming of innocent people, whether Palestinian or Israeli.  We recommend signing the petition of Jewish Voice for Peace support them. (They need it.)
    http://ga3.org/campaign/pcusa/eg6i3i41jde38j

    On August 19th California 's Gambling Control Commission will vote on the casino license application of Irving Moskowitz, the leading funder of militant Israeli settlers.
    See what you can do about it at:

    http://www.stopmoskowitz.org/letter0804.shtml

    Selected articles The Other Israel latest printed issue on site:
    http://otherisrael.home.igc.org/



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