Stop greatest forced displacement of Arab citizens of Israel since the 1950s
July 29th, 2012
Posted here is the whole of Adalah's new campaign to raise
support to block the Prawer Plan - the programme to move tens of thousands of
Bedouin from their unrecognised - by the Israeli state - homes in the Negev to concentrations in set areas. JfJfP supports the rights
of the Bedouin to stay in their traditional homes.
Fear of Ramadan delays eviction of Migron outpost
July 29th, 2012
The Migron settlement was acknowleged as illegal by Israel's
Supreme Court - because it was built on privately-owned Palestinian land. It
was to be evacuated on August 1st but this has been delayed because, say
authorities, it falls during Ramadan.
Lifeline for Gaza will open through Rafah crossing
July 29th, 2012
The Egyptian uprising is finally having results for the
people of Gaza.
Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has had
talks with new Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi and agreed that the Rafah
crossing between Gaza and Egypt will be
open 12 hours a day. This should ease the siege imposed by Israel on people and goods moving in and out of Gaza.
Romney tries to woo Jews with threat to destroy Iran
July 29th, 2012
Nobody knows what millionaire CEO and Republican candidate
Mitt Romney stands for - except everything President Obama doesn't. Obviously
that includes Israeli military aggression. So from a drizzly performance in the
UK he has gone to a sunny
reception in Israel,
where he hopes his bellicose remarks will win him Jewish votes back home.
Palestinian-Syrian bond fractures; don’t mend it with anti-Israeli feeling
July 29th, 2012
The long alliance of Palestinians and Syrians is breaking
as Palestinians too feel the brunt of pro-Assad violence. Palestinians are
divided over old loyalties and new realities. Sharif Nashashibi warns against
supporting Assad as a way of opposing the US
and Israel
rather than universal human rights.
A vast and clumsy bureaucracy to control Palestinian movement
July 29th, 2012
The attempts of Israeli state officials to control the
movement of Palestinians have generated a huge and inefficient bureaucracy in
which the clerk controls the Arabs but no-one is in charge of what the clerks
do, how or why. Ha'aretz interviews the author of a new book on how it works -
or doesn't.
Settlers’ leader applauds inertia on removing them
July 29th, 2012
Dani Dayan, chairman of the council for West Bank
settlements, claims in an op-ed piece in the NY Times that Israel's seizure of the West
Bank was morally necessary as a defence against Arab aggression
(!) and the settlers will expand their control (2nd). Lara Friedman, (1st)
disputes his argument and conclusion as immoral and wrong; lastly, Richard Falk
asks whether his realpolitik is not to be admired.
A good week in the West Bank: only 24 Arabs wounded by settlers and IDF
July 29th, 2012
We post this week OCHA's weekly report for 18-24 July
because the number of Palestinians injured by settlers and the IDF is unusually
low. The dispassionate account of daily life in a 'good' week for West Bank
Palestinians is horrible, Second, a frenzy of land grabbing and house
demolitions by settlers is reported by the National Bureau for the Defense of
Land.
‘It seems that Israel is determined to become a fascist state’
July 29th, 2012
London
student Jakril Hoque is shocked when he is interrogated, imprisoned and
deported from Ben Gurion airport. Why? He is the wrong colour. He is most
shocked when his interrogator tells him happily that Israel alone is alllowed to
practise racial discrimination because it is 'special'. From justifying
paranoia and racism to implementing fascism is not, it seems, beyond
possibility.
New US law will extend Israel’s air-strike range
July 29th, 2012
The USA's
new security co-operation law, passed earlier this month, had great ideological
power. Its most immediate practical significance may be, writes Yitzhak
Benhorin, to allow the IDF to buy re-fuelling aircraft for the first time. It
was to hinder Israel
attacking Iran that aerial
refuelling planes have been withheld by the USA up till now.
From idealism to corruption, Zionisms all the way
July 29th, 2012
Uri Avnery examines the ways in which the meanings of
Zionism have changed since the 1890s and especially since the founding of Israel. He
recounts how and why he coined the term 'post-Zionism' - as a word for the
redundancy of this ideology which is thus still useful.
Diamonds are for war crimes
July 29th, 2012
The take-over of De Beers diamond company by Anglo American
is stumbling on ethical issues, nowadays key to the pure diamond image. One
such gem is De Beer's Steinmetz Jubilee diamond on display at the Tower of London. Steinmetz funds the Steinmetz
Foundation which adopted the IDF's Givati Brigade - accused of the worst
massacre during Operation Cast Lead. Protesters highlight another 'blood
diamond' .
EU cowers before bellicose Lieberman and ditches Palestinian principles
July 27th, 2012
As predicted, 2 posts below, the EU-Israel Association
Council has decided to expand their areas of co-operation even though 'respect
for human rights and democratic principles' is part of the agreement. Stuart
Reigeluth believes the EU side was bedazzled by Lieberman's talk of Hezbollah, Syria
and war. Palestinian human rights groups have jointly condemned the EU's
failure to stand by its own principles.
Occupation and military rule
July 26th, 2012
Oded Na’aman writes: "As you stand at the checkpoint,
you must constantly consider the various ways in which you may be attacked:
Where are they going to come from? What will their strategy be? Is that child
as innocent as he seems, or is he smuggling a weapon? Is that ambulance really
rushing a woman to the hospital to give birth, or are there enemies hiding
inside? Is that old man harmless... These are the instructions soldiers receive
before beginning their principle combat mission in the IDF: enforcement of
military rule in the West Bank."
EU speaks with forked tongue
July 23rd, 2012
In recent months
Catherine Ashton, the EU representative for foreign and security policy, has
heavily criticised Israel's
settlement expansion policy. To show how serious it is in wanting to put an end
to Israel's willful and
continued violation of international law, the EU is now preparing to upgrade
its relationship with Israel
without preconditions!
G4S helps police Israeli detention centres
July 23rd, 2012
Defence for Children-Palestine (DCI-Palestine) has released
an urgent appeal to end the practice of holding Palestinian children from the
West Bank in solitary confinement in facilities in Israel. Our old friend G4S helps
police their detention.
When 1 and 1 don’t make 2
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