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--- The Other Israel <otherisr at actcom.co.il> wrote:

> Subject: [TOI-Billboard] Dreaming of vegetables
> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:49:15 -0500
> From: The Other Israel <otherisr at actcom.co.il>
> To: roweenayvonne at yahoo.com
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Dreaming of vegetables

TOI-Billboard, January 6, 2007
The Other Israel email updates in cooperation with
Occupation Magazine

Dahamesh Village near Ramla in imminent danger of
destruction 
Nori Al-Okbi - Bedouin Rights Defence Association -
The houses of a thousand people were given demolition
notices, and the entire village is in imminent danger
of being demolished and completely erased. Ramla Mayor
Yoel Lavi has declared that “The solution” for this
village is “Two D-9 bulldozers, accompanied by two
companies of Border Guards” (Riot Police). Once these
become available, “The bulldozers will move freely,
from one side of the village to another”. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18447

Tali Fahima: `My crime was to protest at Israeli
assassinations`
Conal Urquhart/ Tim Butcher - The Guardian/Telegraph -
For nine months of her incarceration she was kept in
isolation, without access to any distractions such as
books or television. "I used to lie on my bed and
think about Jenin, the people I met, and wonder how
things were going there. I never get bored on my own,"
Tali Fahima said.(...) "My first crime was that I
refused to work with Shin Bet, the second was that I
insisted on going to see the Palestinians and the
third was that I protested against the Israeli policy
of assassination," Tali Fahima told the Guardian in
her first interview since her release.  
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18445

Mubarak: either demilitarized region or Egypt goes
nuclear too
Roee Nahmias - Ynet - "We said that the region should
be demilitarized of mass destruction weapons and that
we don’t want nuclear weapons in the region, or else
we would be forced to also bring in nuclear weapons so
that we are not attacked at any time," the president
said.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18444

Bil`in protest - against Wall and against Palestinian
infighting 
ISM/IMEMC - Jabril al Joub, of Fateh, commended the
unanimity amongst Palestinians fostered within Bil’in,
and cited the death of Yasser Arafat as significant
catalyst toward the current political crisis. Kais Abu
Leyla, also of Fateh, echoed the call for unity
between Islamic and nationalist parties, to put an end
to factionalism.(...) Israeli soldiers took positions
at several locations along the expanse of the primary
fence and immediately opened fire. Several Bil’in
residents were injured, including at least one who was
taken to the hospital for treatment. An Israeli
activist also received first aid after suffering burns
from a tear gas canister. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18443

Detainees in Hadarim call for an end to internal
clashes
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Palestinian detainees
imprisoned at the Hadarim Israeli detention facility
called on the Palestinian factions to end all sorts of
internal clashes and violence. The detainees said that
the factions should resolve their differences
peacefully instead of resorting to violence. The
detainees who are confined to solitary said that all
detainees in every detention facility will carry a
hunger strike on January 14 and several strikes in
February and March. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18441

Decision time
Yaakov Katz - Jerusalem Post - "Deputy Defense
Minister Ephraim Sneh told The Jerusalem Post in
November that sanctions were unlikely to work and that
Israel must be prepared to thwart Teheran`s drive for
nuclear capability "at all costs," even in a
preemptive strike. Since then other leaders have added
their voices, including Vice Prime Minister Shimon
Peres who recently declared: "Iran too can be
destroyed." 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18440

The IDF and my daughter`s hamburger
Sam Bahour - "Well, we were in the center of Ramallah
yesterday afternoon, at 3:40pm when the almighty
Israeli military decided, again, that it was time to
wreak havoc on our city. I should not really complain
since what happened in Ramallah yesterday happens
across the West Bank and Gaza regularly. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18439

Sad holiday - a report from within on how Palestinians
survive
Adel Shadid - Thousands live in such dire conditions
that they can only dream of vegetables and bread; they
pass whole long days without any food, pass the cold
mountain winter without heating, lighting candles in
order to save electricity, walking on foot or riding
donkeys in order to save travelling fares. The number
of the poor and hungry is ever growing. The
unemployment rate among Palestinians is enormous, and
in practice it can be said that the entire Palestinian
people is unemployed.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18436

If I were a Palestinian 
Uri Blau - Haaretz - "If I were in the Palestinians`
situation, I would make our lives bitter. I would not
blow up women and children. I`m totally opposed to
that. But yes, I would fight against the foreign
occupier. When you take a person and put him up
against the wall and don`t leave him many options,
then what do you want him to do? (...) In this battle
soldiers are legitimate targets. My father was in the
Etzel [Irgun]. There was the British occupier and he
fought against it. The Palestinian is fighting against
the Israeli occupier. When you come and call someone a
`terrorist,` the definition is totally subjective. I
consider the Etzel fighters freedom fighters, and the
British considered them terrorists..." 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18435

The Shuhada Street opened? Not quite 
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - senior IDF officers discovered
that the closure of Old Hebron`s Shuhada Street to
Palestinians had been done "by mistake." The mistake
has now lasted for six years. Activists from the
Israeli organization Children of Abraham and from the
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) accompanied
Palestinians trying to benefit from the army
discovering its mistake. The results were rather
predictable. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18432

For articles of the past week, lookinto the
"categories" of www.kibush.co.il, such as:

Commentary on current events
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20&section=8

especially recommended: 
Shulamit Aloni: Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel

Siege & Checkpoints
http://www.kibush.co.il/datapage.asp?lang=1%20&section=4

especially recommended:
Amira Hass: Marking the territory  

etc.

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