Crazy Country
After today's Occupation Magazine headlines we introduce Adam Keller's new blog with short personal comments on what was going on in this crazy country during the past week - to be continued.
Here follow the October 6, 2009 press picks on Occupation Magazine (Today, we posted the new articles.) OM - with its collection of articles and action alerts is updated each day of the week by different editors - in English www.kibush.co.il and in Hebrew לעברית www.kibush.co.il/index_h.asp You can also search for older information using the powerfull search function & scrolling down through the sections.
Abbas may change his mind on Goldstone Report
AFP/Y-net/Ma’an - "President Abbas is seriously studying the possibility of asking the Arab and Islamic bloc to officially take the Goldstone report to international bodies, including the UN General Assembly and the Security Council," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35997
New Israeli settlement construction underway: report
AFP/Peace Now - A Peace Now report said on Monday that some 800 new housing units are being built in settlements across the occupied West Bank, Tko`a, Shilo, Kiryat Arba, Nokdim, Maskiyot, Kochav Hashchar, Ma`ale Michmash, Avnei Hefetz, Ma`ale Shomron, Ma`on, Oranit, Alon, Alon Shvut, Alonei Shilo, El`azar, Beitar Illit, Barqan, Givat Ze`ev, Dolev, Har Gilo, Talmon, Yitzhar, Kochav Ya`akov, Kfar Adumim, Kfar Etzion, Carmel, Mevo Horon, Matityahu, Na`aleh, Etz Efraim (Elkanah), Pedu`el, Tzofim, Kedar, Kalia.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35996
IDF forces entered PA self-government area-A: 12 civilians abducted to detention camps "for questioning"
George Rishmawi - Palestine Today - In June of this year the military said it would stop attacking a number of West Bank cities, including Bethlehem and Qalqilia, however invasions and kidnaps of civilians in those cities did not stop.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35995
Charges of war crimes now a real fear for Israeli ministers and officers as Ya’alon refuses to fly to Britain
PSC Press release - Mr Ya’alon was warned by his legal advisors of possible charges over his involvement in the 2002 assassination of a Hamas leader that killed 14 other people.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35994
How I’m Losing My Love For Israel
Jay Michaelson - The Forward - I’m not sure any state with tanks can win a propaganda war against an occupied people with guns and Molotov cocktails - even if the occupied people’s leaders deserve plenty of blame. (...) I don’t think advocates of Israel understand exactly how bad the situation is on college campuses, in Europe, and in liberal or leftist social-political circles. Supporting Israel in these contexts is like supporting repression, or the war in Iraq, or George W. Bush.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35992
Hamas arrests militants planning to fire rockets at Israel
Haaretz - Hamas has warned the factions not to fire rockets under any circumstances, according to the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat report, even in response to Israeli measures at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119165.html
Israel`s democracy and its Arab population
David Newman - Jerusalem Post - It is not easy to understand the rationale behind almost every government policy to allocate fewer resources per capita to Arab citizens. It doesn`t make sense and, in the long term, has proved to be totally self-defeating for the state.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35991
PA waging diplomatic war over Temple Mount
Barak Ravid and Liel Kyzer - Haaretz - While the PA has always conducted intensive diplomatic activity with regard to Jerusalem, it has previously focused on issues such as Israeli construction in East Jerusalem or the eviction of Palestinian families from homes in the city`s Arab neighborhoods. But following the clashes on the Temple Mount last Sunday, the eve of Yom Kippur, it began warning the international community about the possibility of a conflagration there.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1118884.html
It`s all kosher for Kasher
Gideon Levy - Haaretz - Mr. Ethics, Prof. Asa Kasher, the Israel Prize-winning philosopher and author of the IDF`s Code of Conduct. Kasher glossed over every transgression during this war. He`s the one responsible for that toxic "IDF spirit" - which holds that when it comes to protecting soldiers, anything goes for the IDF.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1118638.html
The tropes of `Jewish antisemitism`
Antony Lerman - The Guardian - The concept of the `self-hating Jew` has been dignified with a pseudo-psychopathology by those keen to suppress dissent
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=35981
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Adam's blog was started a week ago
in Hebrew: http://adam-keller1.blogspot.com/ : עברית
and English: http://adam-keller2.blogspot.com/
As all Israeli governments have said since 1967, and as PM Netanyahu reiterated a few weeks ago, Israel is committed to the freedom of religious worship in Jerusalem.
This week, like so often before, the Jerusalem Police forbade Muslims aged less than fifty to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Jerusalem Police also detailed large forces to safeguard the prayers of Jews at the Wailing Wall, for whom no age limitations were set.
Yes, there is freedom of religious worship in Jerusalem – but sometimes you have to wait until you are fifty…
Posted Monday, October 5, 2009
Release him - now!
Because this young man, who stands prolonged detention with so much courage and dignity, deserves to be free. Because three years and three months are long enough and far too long. Because the state of Israel which sent him to the border of Gaza must bring him back, with no further delay. Because on this issue the people in Israel are united, more than on anything else. Because his whole country wants Gil'ad Shalit back home with his family.
Release them - now!
Because his whole country wants Gil'ad Shalit back home with his family. Because there can never be peace while Israel's prisons and detention camps are full of thousands of Palestinian prisoners. Because there is hardly any Palestinian family which did not have a member in prison at some time in the past forty two years. Because Menachem Begin and Yitzchak Shamir had also been called terrorists. Because their whole people wants the Palestinian prisoners back home with their families.
Posted Saturday, October 3, 2009
"The Goldstone Report endangers peace" said Prime Minister Netanyahu. Why? "When we disengaged from Gaza, we thought that the world would let us use self-defence. If it does not, we can't take any more risks for peace".
Translation to plain English: "If you don't give us a free hand to bomb the West Bank after we have withdrawn from there, to bomb, to kill and to destroy, we will just not withdraw".
And, with that permission you would? Really, Mr Prime Minister? From the whole West Bank?
Posted Friday, October 2, 2009
Officers of the Israeli Defence Forces are supposed to be ever ready to lay down their lives for their country. But what the hell - are they also supposed to sacrifice the chance of a nice holiday in Europe? Perhaps, after all, it just does not pay to kill civilians...
Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Government of Israel is warning the West about Iran's nefarious intentions. "The Iranians have no intention to conduct real negotiations. They just want to conduct futile negotiaitons and meanwhile continue enriching Uranium. They just want to gain some more time."
Interesting. How come that the government of Israel is so clever in decyphering such tricks?
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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