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OMNI ISRAEL-PALESTINE NEWSLETTER #7, DECEMBER 17, 2012. Compiled by Dick Bennett FOR A
CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE. (#1 Feb. 22, 2011; #2 Feb. 16, 2012; #3 March 1, 2012; #4 May 18, 2012; #5 August 13, 2012; #6 October 29, 2012).
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Contents #4 and #5 at end
Contents #6
Shehadeh: The Occupation
Kestler-D’Amours: Israel’s Apartheid Wall Extending
Social Forum in Brazil on the Occupation
Veterans for Peace
APN Call to Jews to Defend Civility and Justice
Rachel Corrie Verdict
Parallel Cases
Bachevich, Israel/US
Safieh: Israel’s Mistreatment of Its Palestinians
Loewenstein & Moor: One State Solution
Contents #7
Sign J-Street Petition Against Closing Palestinian Mission
Live from Palestine
Breaking the Silence: Israeli Soldiers’ Confessions
U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Free Palestine Movement
From: "Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street" <[email protected]>
Subject: Say NO to closing the Palestinian Mission in DC
Date: December 3, 2012 9:25:42 AM PST
To: Art Hobson <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Art,We knew this was coming, but we're still amazed at just how reckless it is.Congress is already considering a measure that would expel the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, DC to punish the Palestinians for seeking to upgrade their status at the United Nations last week.At a time when Israel's survival as the democratic homeland of the Jewish people demands that the United States be looking for ways to encourage and deepen diplomacy, talk of ejecting one of the parties from the country defies logic. Taking such a draconian step would widely undermine confidence in the leadership role of the United States in resolving this conflict through a two-state solution, gravely harming the prospects for its achievement.TELL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE TO OPPOSE ATTEMPTS TO FORCE THE CLOSURE OF THE PALESTINIAN MISSION TO THE US.US lawmakers may disagree with the decision to bring the question of statehood to the General Assembly, but they should understand that it is a peaceful, non-violent move within the legal rights of the Palestinians.President Abbas' approach to the UN is in stark contrast to the actions of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terror organizations. In just the past few weeks, we have seen vividly the consequences of the path being taken by those Palestinians who choose violence and terror and refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. With such extremist groups eager to expand their power, American and Israeli security interests demand that the United States take steps that strengthen, rather than undermine, President Abbas and the institutions he oversees.TELL CONGRESS TO REJECT THE DANGEROUS AND SELF-DEFEATING EFFORT TO EXPEL PALESTINIAN DIPLOMATIC OFFICES FROM THE US.We'll send a message to your Senators and Representative, telling them to work with the President to ensure that the PLO is permitted to maintain its diplomatic mission to our country.Thanks,Jeremy Ben-Ami
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LIVE FROM PALESTINE
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Editor: Jeff Pekrul
Marshall Pinkerton
Palestinian Activists Block Apartheid Road 443
By Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, October 16, 2012
http://ism-norcal.org/newsletters/ISM_News_Fall_2012.pdf
.About 50 Palestinians joined by a number of international activists
blocked today the Apartheid Road 443 (known as Modi’in, which passes on
West Bank lands, connecting Tel Aviv to Jerusalem). The road was blocked for about 30 minutes to Israeli and settler traffic. Soldiers and Border Police who arrived on the scene physically attacked protestors and journalists, and used pepper spray and sound bombs. One Palestinian protestor was detained and beaten. He was released an hour later.
This direct action was organized in light
of the increasing settler terrorism against
Palestinians and their properties during the
current olive harvest season, including the
torching, uprooting or setting fire to olive trees,
the theft of harvested olives, and the attacking
of Palestinian families while picking olives.
Mohamad Khatib, of the PSCC emphasized,
“We organized this action today to stress that
as long as Palestinians suffer under the daily
practices of the occupation and settler terror,
Israeli daily life can’t continue on as normal.”
Khatib added, “We call on people of
conscience around the world to support the
Palestinian struggle by engaging in the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions campaign against
Israel, and to take serious actions to boycott
companies that are complicit with the Israeli
apartheid, such as Veolia, which operates
transportation routes that use Road 443, which
is built on Palestinian
lands.”
Background, Road
to nowhere: During
the occupation of the
West Bank in June
1967, the Israeli army
destroyed the villages
of Yalu, Beit Nuba
and Amuasse in the
Latrun enclave.”Canada
Park” and a number of
settlements were built
on their lands.
Most of the residents of these three displaced
villages currently live in villages near Highway
443, such as Beit Liqya, Beit Sira and Beit
Ur. In the eighties, thousands of acres were
confiscated by Israel along the road, claiming
that the road will serve as the main traffic
artery for these
villages to Ramallah.
However, the road
has been closed for
years to Palestinian
vehicles. Following
the High Court ruling
on Route 443, a small
section of the road was
opened last week for
Palestinian traffic, but
is still nearly useless
for the villagers, as
access to Ramallah
from it is prohibited, turning it into a highway
to nowhere for Palestinians. ■
Fadi Arouri
Protestors: Israeli daily
life can’t continue
on as normal while
Palestinians suffer
under settler terror..
Israeli authorities are threatening to
deport two international activists,
arrested yesterday at a non-violent
action at a settlement supermarket,
despite a judge ruling that they should be
released. They are currently being held in
immigration detention.
Earlier today, defense lawyers were informed
that a judge had ruled that they should be freed
without charge, but this ruling was ignored by
Israeli police, who handed the two activists to
the Ministry of Interior, to begin the deportation
process. They could be flown back to their home
countries within hours, despite never having
been charged, let alone convicted of any crime.
They have also been repeatedly denied contact
with their lawyer.
Substantial legal costs have already been
incurred. If they choose to fight this unjust
deportation, then these will be even higher. We
urgently need funds to challenge the Israeli
tactic of deporting solidarity activists to prevent
our work in the West Bank.
Freedom for international activists can also
be key in legal processes for Palestinians who
are arrested at the same time. Previously this
month, four ISM activists and two Palestinian
men were arrested. One of the Palestinian men
was released just yesterday, following a judge’s
decision that to keep him in prison after the
international activists had been freed would be
unjust and discriminatory.
Please donate now so that we can continue
our work supporting the Palestinian cause. ■
DONATE HERE:
http://palsolidarity.org/donate/
URGENT — FUNDS NEEDED
International Activists Threatened With Illegal Deportation
By International Solidarity Movement, November, 2012
ISM-Palestine issued this appeal in October.
We wish it were exceptional but it is not. The
Northern California Chapter has already sent
$200, but we used to be able to send thousands.
We are the only tax-exempt ISM chapter, and
we realize that many of you prefer to donate
by check. If you wish to send your donations in
the enclosed remit envelope, therefore, we will
assure that all of your funds goes to support
our work, as we have for the last ten years.
—The ISM Team in Northern California.
“What cause have we to complain about
their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now,
they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and
before their eyes we turn into our homestead
the land and villages in which they and their
forefathers have lived.”
—Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, 1956
During my visit to Palestine this summer, I met
with an Israeli settler in an effort to learn more
about the views of settlers living in the West
Bank. My ultimate goal was to speak very little,
listen a lot, and try to understand the thinking
behind the settler point of view. My purpose
was to try to understand his point of view in an
effort to be able to explain it to others and argue
effectively against it, so I spoke very little and
allowed him to talk, which he was more than
happy to do.
I spoke to a settler living in the Efrat settlement
which is part of the Gush Etzion settlement
bloc. It is located south of Jerusalem between
Bethlehem and Hebron over 4 miles from the
green line separating Israel and the West Bank
and is on the Palestinian side of the apartheid
wall. There are about 22,000 illegal settlers in
Gush Etzion and 7000 of those live in Efrat.
All settlements within the West Bank have
been deemed illegal under international law and
are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention’s
prohibition against an occupying power’s
transfer of civilians into occupied territory. The
Israeli government disputes this not by saying
that population transfer is not occurring, or
even that the boundary is disputed, but because
Palestine was under occupation already when
Israel conquered the territory, it was not bound
by the Geneva Convention because it was a
liberating army. The International Court of
Justice, in an advisory opinion issued in 2004,
has rejected this assertion and reaffirmed the
position that all Israeli settlements within the
West Bank are illegal under international law.
The man that I spoke with one afternoon in
August of 2012, was an American who made
aliyah, which is the Jewish-only right to return to
the holy land, in the early 1980s. He and his wife,
also an American, first moved to Tel Aviv because
they wanted to live “among their own kind.” He
said they “wanted to raise their children with
people who were like them.” And he said that
while he loved America, he only wanted to live
with other Jews. After a few years in Tel Aviv, he
moved to Efrat because it was cheaper than living
in the city and was closer to Jerusalem. He said
he felt no particular attachment to the specific
land the settlement was built on, but now that he
had purchased his home, he felt entitled to keep
living there. Regardless of the original illegality of
the purchase apparently.
He asserted that none of the land in the
settlement had been illegally confiscated, but
had been purchased from the Israeli government.
The problem with this is that it was not the
Israeli government’s land to sell, and it was
precisely this government that stole the land in
question. He pointed to small bits of land near
the settlement that still held olive trees that
were tended by Palestinians as evidence that
everything was legal.
But this is one of the legacies of colonialism.
Palestinians who had been living on their land
for hundreds of years, often did not hold official
western legal documents outlining their holdings.
So the small patches of Palestinian land that are
still held by Arabs are often newer pieces adjacent
to more ancient holdings that were purchased
more recently during the British occupation.
Israeli courts held that these new purchases were
the only legally held lands, and the rest were
confiscated and used to build settlements.
Settlers like the one I interviewed were
enticed to move there because the Israeli
government heavily subsidized the housing
in settlements in an effort to change the
demographics within the West Bank and enlarge
Israeli territory. The Israeli government is
Interview With a Settler
By Kelly Joiner, October 1, 2012
Settlers like the one I interviewed
were enticed to move there
because the Israeli government
heavily subsidized the housing..
beholden to Zionist ideology that says that God
gave Israel to them and so any action they might
take to get that land back is justified.
This does not fit with traditional Jewish
teachings about justice however. Abraham
purchased the land for Sarah’s grave in Hebron
parts of which are now being stolen by settlers
on a daily basis. He would be ashamed of what is
being done in the name of his God. As would most
religious figures. Muhammad would be ashamed
at the actions of many of his fringe followers, as
would Jesus. As a Catholic, I am often ashamed
of people who call themselves Christian and yet
deny basic tenets of our faith that is based on love
and equality.
Here is an analogy I was offered. Israel and
the British at the time of Partition offered the
Palestinians a state on 45% of their historic
homeland in 1947 and offered 55 % to Jews who
constituted 30 % of the population and owned
only 6 % of the land. Palestinians rejected this
offer because they thought they would win in a
war supported by other Arab nations. They were
wrong. More territory was lost in 1967. “Now faced
with almost nothing they have come crawling
back like babies” (here he actually began to suck
his thumb and talk like a baby) “Waaaah, I’m
sowwy.” He adds, “So because they say sorry we
are obligated to give them what they want?”
Actually, you are obligated to give them what they
want because what they want is to be treated like
human beings and be allowed to live in the land they
have lived on for thousands of years. But I digress.
He then compared partition to a common
business transaction. “Let’s say I offer to sell you
this cake for $5. You try to negotiate the price lower
and I refuse. You refuse to pay my price and walk
away. If you come back tomorrow and I have sold
the cake to someone else am I still obligated to sell
you the cake for $5?”
Yes, that’s exactly the same thing. Your
homeland and a piece of cake. Perfect analogy. But
it illuminates a lot. If you think of the invasion and
occupation of Palestine as a business transaction,
then Palestinians are simply trying to declare
the contract null and void. There is no need to
demonize them or paint them as scary, they are
simply unsatisfied customers. It also means that
you should not be so zealously attached to your
product. Every businessman knows you don’t get
emotional. It’s just business. Typically, the settler
is applying different standards to others than
for himself. Palestinians are hopelessly violent,
emotional and scary. Israelis are just rational
businessmen. I often see businessmen in America
throwing rocks at children on their way to school.
Sure. Totally rational.
The settler also compared the situation to
that of Native Americans in the US. As if I, as
a beneficiary of American colonialism, would
sympathize and collude with him. Some
differences. First, the majority of atrocities
committed in the US happened several hundred
years ago. I was not a settler who pushed Native
Americans off of their land, my ancestors were
still in Europe when this was happening. Not that
I didn’t benefit indirectly, I did and still do, but I do
not bear personal responsibility for the actions.
This settler is living on someone else’s land. He
took it. He did.
Second, while I would not argue that similar
atrocities were committed against Native
Americans, I would argue that many of them are
not still ongoing. Native Americans suffer from
the same effects of institutionalized racism that
African-Americans and other communities of color
in America face. This racism is real, powerful, and
harmful. But the fact remains that today Native
Americans can leave their reservations whenever
they like—they have freedom of movement.
Though incarceration rates are far too high relative
to their proportion of the population, we do have
Wikipedia
The settler-bypass road
from Gilo into the
Etzion settlement bloc.
He returned to the theme he began
with, namely that he doesn’t want
to live with anyone but Jews..
legal procedures and mechanisms for prohibiting
torture by guards and policemen. We do not
imprison children with adults, nor do children end
up in military jails. We do not send our air force to
bomb reservations, or poison their water and fields
anymore. Our military does not target civilians
on American soil. And while I do not often defend
the US government, police, and military, I have to
say that within the bounds of our own country,
we are not as bad as Israel. Not that we are good.
But we at least have the sense to know that
discrimination is wrong. It is illegal. And people
who do bad things are supposed to be punished.
Does this always happen, no. Far too often, power
is abused. But we do not legalize torture because it
happens. We do not legalize stealing because some
people will steal. At least not yet. But even if we
did, I would not support that.
Once I was apparently unable to mask my
disgust or shock when he was telling me that all
Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews. At
that point he backtracked and spent a lot of time
trying to convince me he was right and eventually
said, “But I don’t mean Christian Palestinians, I
mean the Muslims.”
He tried to play on my Christianity several
times by saying that Palestinian Christians were
not bad guys; it was the Muslims that were a
problem. He intimated that I would be OK with
this type of intolerance because it was so common
at home I guess. Those people are clearly not to be
trusted, but Christians are fine. Of course this is
despite the fact that the Israeli occupation makes
no such distinction and Palestinian Christians are
targeted just as harshly by the regime as Muslims.
But even if this were not so, the nakedness of his
prejudice was startling. I am from San Francisco,
and I am not that old yet, so I am used to people
having the sense to be ashamed of their racism.
Not that it doesn’t come out, but when confronted,
most people that I know feel bad afterwards, not
unabashed. He really did remind me of a Klan
member at that moment. Explaining why those
people aren’t really people and don’t deserve the
same respect as you and me.
Eventually he returned to the theme he began
with, namely that he doesn’t want to live with
anyone but Jews. So the fact that other people
have historic and meaningful ties to this land as
well appears immaterial. He is an Israeli. They
won a war. And God gave them the land. So might
makes right. The fact that this Zionist philosophy
of exclusivism is racist and antithetical to ideas of
democracy seemed not to bother him.
Then he returned to the idea that he and I
were the same and it was the Arabs that were
the problem. “9/11, that was Muslims” he told me.
That’s when I knew it was time to leave. I think
once you bring 9/11 into a discussion, it is a sign
that you are out of rational arguments. It was
such a bald-faced attempt at fear-mongering and
racism I realized that I had nothing more to learn.
Apparently the lessons of Exodus and the
Holocaust were lost on him. The Old Testament
says, “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress
him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
(Exodus 23:21) And the lesson of the Holocaust is
Never Again, not Never again to us. I do not accept
that this settler and others like him should be
allowed to continue to live on stolen land. I do not
accept that there is something fundamentally
different about the Palestinian people that means
they are not entitled to basic human rights and
the protection of international law. I do not accept
that there is nothing we as Americans can do
about this situation.
We must refuse to allow our government
to continue to support this inhumanity in our
name and with our money. We must educate
other Americans about what is going on. And we
must do this not because it is in our own interest,
even though it is, but because it is the right
thing to do. Doing the right thing is rarely easy.
It means awkward conversations at work and at
Thanksgiving dinner. It is our responsibility as
Americans to act in solidarity with Palestinians by
changing things here in the United States. This is
the work. Yalla. ■
Kelly Joiner is an activist from Northern California working on issues affecting communities of
color. In 2012 she spent the summer in the West
Bank working with IMEMC news. She is currently
working on research regarding Palestinian children in the Occupied Territories..
Uri Gnorant of the Israeli Bureau of
Land Redemption was eager to see
me. “I’m glad you’re here,” he said.
“You reporters talk about how little we do
for Palestinians. This is a chance to set the
record straight. When it comes to environmental protection and conservation, no one
could possibly do more than we do.
“Take water, for example. We have reduced
Palestinian water consumption to less than a
third of what it was in 1967. Nowhere in the
world can boast such an accomplishment. Even
the Israelis themselves cannot match it. Villages
like Beit Furik and Beit Dajan, with a combined
population of around 15,000 get by on only 12
tanker loads of water per day during the summer,
and sometimes less, supplemented by some filthy
ground water for their vegetable gardens. You
can’t do better than that.
“Or fire prevention. You remember the terrible
Carmel forest fire that we had in 2010? You never
see anything like that in Palestinian areas, and
this is because we removed a lot of the trees
as a preventive measure. Some people say that
the Carmel fire was due to the dead non-native
European trees that we planted to hide hundreds
of Palestinian villages that we destroyed in 1948,
and that Palestinian olive and other fruit trees
don’t have the same problem. Let me assure you
that olive trees also burn, as our settlers have
amply demonstrated. The solution is for them to
be removed, which is the policy that we have put
in place and are diligently pursuing.
“Our protection of the Palestinian marine
environment in Gaza is also unmatched. Over
the last twenty years, we have progressively put
larger and larger areas under protection from
fishing, so that now the area available for fishing
is less than a fifth of what it used to be, and most
of the fish are not in that area, anyway. We can
assure you that there will be no overfishing in
Palestinian waters!
“There are many other ways that we protect
the environment that is exposed to Palestinian
abuse. For example, Palestinian women have
gathered wild herbs like thyme and sesame for
thousands of years on the hills and in the valleys
of what used to be called Palestine. We have put
a stop to that and made it illegal, so as to protect
these plants from further exploitation.
“We also can’t have grazing animals like
sheep and goats eating up the natural herbs
and grasses in the pastures. If Palestinians want
fresh meat, let them buy their feed from Israeli
merchants like nature intended, or get frozen
meat from New Zealand, which we are happy to
sell to the humanitarian organizations that keep
Palestinians alive.
“As we know, however, human activity
inevitably damages the environment in one
way or another, no matter what policies we put
in place. Our long term policy is therefore to
eliminate as many of the Palestinian people as
possible from as many places as possible that are
under Israeli control, and also to expand the areas
under Israeli control for the same reason.
“As you can see, our commitment to
environmental protection of Palestinian land is
unshakeable. ” ■
Barb Weir is the pseudonym of a writer and
human rights activist in Northern California.
Israeli Environmental Protection of Palestinian Land
By Barb Weir, August 4, 2012
Palestinians line up
for water rations..
AP. The International Solidarity Movement
(ISM) needs nonviolent resistance
volunteers to stand with Palestinians
against the theft and colonization of Palestinian
land. You will witness and report human
rights violations, participate in nonviolent
demonstrations, resist home demolitions and land
confiscations, accompany children and patients
to school and hospital, remove roadblocks, or just
share time with Palestinians, listen to them, and
help ensure that their voices are heard. When
you return to your community you will be better
equipped to advocate for the freedom and selfdetermination of the Palestinian people.
More info: [email protected], 510-236-
4250, www.norcalism.org or www.palsolidarity.org ■
For more information or to register: www.ism-norcal.org
NORCAL ISM
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Contents of #4
Jerusalem March
Palestinian Non-Violence
UN Condemns Settlements
Americans for Peace Now
Jean Zaru, Occupied with Nonviolence
Rev. of Two Books Beinart and Bar-On
Atzmon, The Wandering Who
Contents of #5
APN: Reject the Levy Report
Qumsiyah’s Newsletter: Gradual Destruction of Indigenous Palestinians
Qumsiyah, Destruction of Palestinian State
Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance
Leila Khaled Resistance Fighter
Palestinian Gandhi
Palestinian Nakba
Bedisha, Testimonies of Palestine 2011
3 Films:
Christian Zionism, With God on Our Side
Palestinian Child, Miral
Wall in Binin, 5 Broken Cameras
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