[WCUSP] Fw: [TOI-Billboard] Hollow words & fast-drying glue

Sun Jul 1 13:51:28 CDT 2007

There is so much here -- but pay special attention to the first message under "Action Reports."

Libby

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Hollow words & fast-drying glue 

Email updates July 1, 2007
The Other Israel in cooperation with Occupation Magazine
This collection of somber analysis & inspiring action reports we send you while in Israel the attention is once more captured by the presidential scandal. The too convenient deal offered to Katsav would ensure that the now resigned president would not face imprisonment for his sexual offences. A quite spontaneous demonstration of women but also men drew tens of thousands, filling Tel-Aviv's Rabin Square. Most speakers were in one way or another "from the left" but the crowd was mixed - as became clear from the booing by part of the audience when Liat Rosenberg connected different kinds of oppression in a "too unmistaken way" (she even quoted directly no-one else but Adam Keller).    

Analysis 

Palestine: blood is in the air
Ran HaCohen - Counterpunch - The Gaza Strip is "an independent state" just like any prison cell is: a hermetically sealed cage, overpopulated by 1.3 million people; no sea port or airport; no control over its own borders, waters, or airspace; even its population database, not to mention water, food, electricity, gasoline, and medical equipment, are all strictly controlled by Israel.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20891

Israel`s hollow declarations
Dror Etkes - Y-Net - Upon the Sharm summit`s conclusion on Monday Prime Minister Olmert declared that Israel has no intention of dictating the way of life in the Palestinian Authority. It is indeed unpleasant to put a damper on such a rare joyous occasion such as a four-way summit where such noble declarations are made, yet the simple facts (which, unfortunately, very few people in Israel take the time to confirm) do not quite match such declarations. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20879

The Dirty Word
Uri Avnery - gush-shalom.org - The occupation was not on the agenda of this dark summit.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20884

Barghouthi: Widespread Israeli Attacks and Arrests Expose Emptiness of Olmert’s ‘Goodwill Gesture’
George Rishmawi - IMEMC - "Olmert’s ‘goodwill gesture’ to release 250 prisoners at the Sharm El Sheikh meeting last Monday [is a mockery] when it arrests more than 90 people in 1 day, and an average of 200 Palestinians per month.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20875

Envoy for the Quartet: when Tony Blair meets the real world
Mohammad Kamaali - Looking at the realities of the Middle East today and reviewing Blair`s contribution to the current mayhem, one is left wondering whether this decision is born out of delusional thinking, sheer cynicism, or is there any possible constructive utility in this appointment?
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20890

Imminent crises: threats and opportunities
Noam Chomsky - Znet - The United States is a global power, and its policies should not be viewed in isolation. Going back half a century, the Eisenhower administration identified three major global problems: Indonesia, North Africa, and the Middle East—all oil producers, all Islamic. In all cases, the concern was independent nationalism. The end of French rule in Algeria resolved the North African problem. In Indonesia, the 1965 Suharto coup removed the threat of independence with a huge massacre, which the CIA compared to the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. The “staggering mass slaughter,” as the New York Times described it, was greeted in the West with unconcealed euphoria and relief. The military coup destroyed the only mass-based political party, a party of the poor, slaughtered huge numbers of landless peasants, and threw the country open to Western exploitation of its rich resources, while the large majority tries to survive in misery. Two years later, the major problem in the Middle East was resolved with Israel’s destruction of the Nasser regime, hated by the United States and Britain, which feared that secular nationalist forces might seek to direct the vast energy resources of the region to internal development.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20896

Action reports

Company involved in construction of Separation Wall finds doors locked
"We, a group of autonomous women activists, have protested against the Akerstein Company and its support for the Separation Wall. We have acted at the Akerstein sales center at Herzlia Pituach - we have inserted fast-drying glue into the locks of several entrance doors, sprayed red stains on the outer walls and hanged on the walls posters explaining why.

Six injured at the Bil`in weekly protest & how a new refuser was born 
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - 3 Israeli demonstrators were detained, one of whom is current serving in the Israeli army. Upon being detained, the man stated his military number, unit and name. Despite this he was beaten up and held for approximately one hour. Upon his release, the man stated that he was ashamed of what the army was doing in the area and vowed not to return to service.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20877

A reservist refuser in prison
New Profile - CO Eilam Oren was sentenced to 14 days in military prison for refusing to perform reserve service in the Israeli military. Solidarity action recommended.
http://www.newprofile.org/showdata.asp?pid=1199

The Danger in Planting Twenty Trees
Sami Awad - « Israeli Army in Full Force to Stop Nonviolent Action aimed at Preventing a Sewage Dump from being created on Farm Land 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20806

At least about the shame I can do something 
Arnon Lapid - Al Hatzafon - I knew already what occupation means. I had gotten some lessons during two turns of reserve military duty in the Territories, when I broke at night into the homes of sleeping families, pushed out and scattered the meagre contents of their cupboards, and terribly frightened babies and toddlers. A few years ago, when I visited Gaza with a groups of journalists, I saw the terrible poverty and squalor, and the permanent trace which the butt of a soldier`s rifle left on the shoulder of an an old woman. But at Hawara I saw that you can always learn a bit more. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20728

In Rafah - thousands of Palestinians stuck without humanitarian assistance 
MEP Luisa Morgantini - press release - "I call on the European Union and the whole international community not to stay static in front of the Palestinian population which has been wounded for the hundredth time. I call on them to put pressure on the Israeli government instead, to immediately re-open all the border crossing points at the Gaza Strip, in which Palestinian civilians are arbitrarily and unilaterally imprisoned and forced to survive with no food, nor water and with a health service on the verge of collapse.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20881

Gaza: from economic to humanitarian disaster
Sonja Karkar - Znet - "This week UNRWA stated that 90% of the Gazan population is on their food supplies aid program list. This number is expected to rise as food aid remains stranded due to Israel’s border closures. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20841

The Imminent Threat of Expulsion: The Palestinians from the South Hebron hills need your help
>From Ehud Krinis, David Shulman and Neve Gordon - While all eyes are on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians who live in Susya, in the hills to the south of Hebron, are in imminent danger of being expelled from their homes. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20800

UK trade union backs total boycott of Israel
UNISON media team /Ronen Bodoni - UNISON website/Y-net - Despite the massive anti-boycott campaign launched by the government of Israel, UNISON - the British union of public sector workers - went ahead with its declaration of a boycott on Israel. 
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20725

New England Methodists Pursue Divestment to End Israeli Occupation
Report and recommendations of the divestment task force - "Over the past two years, the task force has examined many companies to determine which ones support the Israeli occupation. The task force has compiled an initial list of twenty companies from which it is recommending that United Methodist churches and investment managers in the New England Conference divest. Reasons for the divestment recommendations are provided for each company, and those reasons are backed up with supporting documentation."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=20805

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