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2008.05.09
The One State Declaration （Challenging the Boundaries: A Single State in Israel/Palestine, 2007）
An Online One State Bibliography in English
2008.03.19
Interview with single-state activist Dr. Haider Eid （Anna Weekes, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2008）
Two-state dreamers （Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 14 March 2008）
The PA's hollow protests （Amira Hass、Mar 15, 2008）
2008.03.04
Revealed: the US plan to start a Palestinian civil war
2008.02.25
Kosovo and the question of Palestine （Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 25 February 2008）
Whitbeck advocates that "the Ramallah-based Palestinian leadership, accepted as such by the 'international community' because it is perceived as serving Israeli and American interests," seize the opportunity and declare independence for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza if "this leadership truly believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that a decent 'two-state solution' is still possible." To give teeth to this initiative, Whitbeck suggests that Palestinian leaders make clear that if the world fails to recognize and support their state, they will dissolve the Palestinian Authority and seek a one-state solution in all of historic Palestine.
2008.02.25
A state of war and peace （Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 20 February 2008）
While this brutal war goes on, cordial (though utterly sterile) negotiations and daily contacts are conducted with Palestinian "leaders" in Ramallah as if they were the best of allies and friends. Not once did the leaders of the Israeli-recognized Palestinian Authority refrain from attending meetings with their Israeli counterparts in protest over Israeli state terrorism against other Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, or in protest at the continuation of settlement activity and land theft. It is a state of war and peace with the Palestinians at the same time.
2008.01.12
Ungenerous occupier: Israel's Camp David exposed （Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 2 January 2008）
After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first time it is possible to gauge with some certainty the extent of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's "generous offer" to the Palestinians and Yasser Arafat's reasons for rejecting it.
2007.10.25
Formalizing apartheid packaged as peace initiative （Neta Golan and Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada, Oct 16, 2007）
Such a state would be squeezed between the separation wall, Israel's "demographic border," and the Jordan Valley, Israel's "security border" with Jordan. With the Jordan Valley making up approximately 30 percent of the West Bank, under this scenario Israel would likely retain more than 40 percent of the West Bank. This transitional Palestinian state would consist of a series of isolated Bantustans, or as Sharon, who fathered the plan, preferred to refer to them, "cantons."
2007.07.06
The 8 Fallacies of Bush's Abbastan Plan （Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, June 26, 2007）
Fallacy #2: Hamas Launched a Coup Against the Legitimate Government in GazaNo, Hamas is the legitimate government in Gaza, and in the West Bank for that matter. There may be a debate to be had over whether its decision to move against Fatah’s militias was ill-considered, but there’s no question in the minds of Hamas ― and even of many Fatah activists in Gaza and the West Bank ― that its target was not the government or the Fatah organization, but a political-military faction within Fatah headed by the warlord Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian Pinochet figure backed to the hilt by the U.S. The Observer's reporting seems to back this up, stressing that the speed of Hamas's victory was a result of the fact that it's assault targeted Dahlan and his organization, and left many other Fatah figures untouched. Some of these figures continue to cooperate with Hamas in Gaza, and the
new governmentin the West Bank is threatening to withhold their salaries as punishment.
2007.07.01
U.S. to increase military aid to Israel to $2.9 billion a year （Sabbaha's）
Israel asked for a gradual increase in the aid over a 10-year period at the tune of $50 million per year. At the end of the 10 years, Israel will receive $2.9 billion annually in military assistance from the U.S.
2007.06.30
ダハラーンとは何者か？ 緊迫するパレスチナで最も注目を集める男 （日刊ベリタ）
パレスチナ情勢は現在、ムハンマド・ダハラーンを軸に動いているといっても過言ではない。彼はイスラエルの対外諜報機関モサドの工作員と言われながら米国の庇護を受けファタハ内で治安機構を握り強大な力を持っている。ハマースが制圧した後ガザ地区から帰国したエジプト人治安使節の一人は、「ガザでの戦闘はファタハとハマースの戦闘ではなく、ムハンマド・ダハラーン一味とパレスチナ人７割との戦いだ」と評した程だ。故アラファト議長の毒殺にも関与したと言われ、他派のハマースのみならず自派のファタハ内からも批判を浴びながらアッバース議長が懸命に擁護するダハラーンとは何者なのか？２３日付けのエジプト週刊誌、エル・オスボーが報じた。
アメリカ：ブッシュ・ブレア 中東和平努力強化か （ワシントンIPS＝ジム・ローブ、６月２０日）
「今はアッバスへのパレスチナ人の批判は多く、重要な決定についてコンセンサスを得る能力は弱まった」と書いている。さらに「西岸でしか使えない資金やガザを除く国際的取り決めは、パレスチナ国家の象徴としてのアッバスの地位を大幅に低下させる」
米・中東：ライス氏、政府内の敵と対決 （ワシントンIPS＝ジム・ローブ、２月２１日）
パレスチナ政府への譲歩に反対するチェイニー副大統領を始めとする新保守主義の生き残りだけではなく、ライス国務長官自身の部下であるエリオット・エイブラムズ中東担当も和平プロセスの障害になっている。エイブラムズは「イスラエルロビー」と呼ばれるユダヤ系団体やキリスト教右派とつながりを持ち、和平交渉を巧みに阻害してきた。
→原文： Rice Faces Formidable White House Foe （Jim Lobe, WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (IPS)）
Abrams was an early prote´ge´ of Richard Perle, whom he first met, along with other prominent pro-Likud hard-liners, such as Feith, former U.N. Amb. Jeane Kirpatrick, and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, while working in the offices of Washington State Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Abrams rose swiftly through the neo-conservative ranks, ……
US Congress to curb Bush enthusiasm for Abbas （Khody Akhavi, The Electronic Intifada, 27 June 2007）
While Bush's embrace of Abbas' emergency government appears to signal a dramatic shift in US foreign policy, neo-conservatives need not worry about just how much U.S. money will go to prop up the troubled Palestinian leadership.
The desecration of democracy （Philip Rizk writing from Gaza City, 22 June 2007）
Why was Hamas so determined to wipe out this "collaborative cell in Fatah"? To just touch on this question brings to the surface the deck's Ace, a Dahlan funded hit man called Samih al-Madhoun, nicknamed "al-Maleoun" (the cursed one) by many Hamas supporters. In the past weeks Hamas systematically executed his companions and leaders and finally Samih himself after this small group of fighters wreaked havoc in their neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.
The plot of conquer and divide is a great smokescreen covering up the desecration of democracy and another attempt to lay to rest the Palestinian cause.
2007.06.23
West Chooses Fatah, Palestinians Don't （Saree Makdisi, Dissident Voice, June 21st, 2007）
Hamas' Shock and Awe （Sam Bahour, The Electronic Intifada, 20 June 2007）
As the Bush Administration failed to export its understanding of democracy to Iraq via the US military, the US's second regional blunder was trying to impose US democracy in occupied Palestine by using a proxy governing body called the Palestinian Authority. The US's weapon of choice for Palestine was to dangle millions of dollars as bait, there for the taking if the Palestinian leadership showed total obedience.
Towards a Geography of Peace: Whither Gaza? （Ilan Pappe´, The Electronic Intifada, 18 June 2007）
What unfolds in Gaza is a battleground between America's and Israel's local proxies -- most of whom are unintentionally such proxies but none the less they dance to Israel's tune -- and those who oppose it. The opposition that now took over Gaza did it alas in a way that one would find very hard to condone or cheer.
Twilight Zone / `Like chickens in a cage` （Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 22.06.07）
Hamas says that after they made this revolution against Fatah, the people should be happy because they have rid us of those criminals like Jamal Abu Jidian and Samih al-Madhoun and Mohammed Ghraib, the biggest criminals in Fatah.
Laboratory for a fortressed world （NAOMI KLEIN, The Nation, 2 July 2007）
Another star of the Paris Air Show will be Israeli defense giant Elbit, which plans to showcase its Hermes 450 and 900 unmanned air vehicles. As recently as May, according to press reports, Israel used the drones on bombing missions in Gaza. Once tested in the territories, they are exported abroad: The Hermes has already been used at the Arizona-Mexico border;
2007.01.13
'Disloyalty' bill passes first hurdle （Jerusalem Post, Jan. 10, 2007）［キャッシュ］
2006.12.09
Why is Israel separating me from my wife? （Ghassan Abdullah writing from Ramallah, 6 December 2006）
Israel has decreed that my wife and I can no longer live together. I am Palestinian and she is Swiss and we have been married for 28 years.
Israel refuses to process visa renewal requests （Press Release, Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the OPT, 6 December 2006）
In a new escalation of Israel's policy of denying Palestinians and their families access to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), the Israeli Civil Administration at Beit El is refusing to accept at least 140 passports for visa extensions.
2006.11.23
The New York Times Marginalizes Palestinian Women and Palestinian Rights （Patrick O'Connor and Rachel Roberts, 17 November 2006）
By representing Palestinian women as passive victims of abuse by Palestinian men, The New York Times echoes themes that were exploited to justify the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US' current Middle East policy, and many past colonial adventures. Columbia University anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod, in her September 2002 article "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" points out the ways that modern discourses dealing with the liberation of Muslim women actually echo the colonial and missionary rhetoric of the last century.
…… Curiously though, victims of Israeli domestic violence and sex trafficking have not been granted the opportunity to speak in the Times. While The New York Times considers domestic Palestinian violence newsworthy, similar problems in Israel are ignored. According to a recent blog posting by Arthur Neslen in The UK Guardian's "Comment is Free": "between 2000 and 2005, there was an almost 300% increase in the number of Israeli women murdered by firearms, almost half of whom were killed by partners who were soldiers, security guards or policemen."
Hollow visions of Palestine's future （Jonathan Cook, 20 November 2006）
But fortunately, whatever Avnery claims, his peace camp is not the only alternative to the sham agonising of Peace Now. Avnery is no more standing at the very edge of the abyss than Grossman. The only abyss Avnery is looking into is the demise of his Jewish state.
Other Zionist Jews, in Israel and abroad, have been grappling with the same kinds of issues as Avnery but begun to move in a different direction, away from the doomed two-state solution towards a binational state. A few prominent intellectuals like Tony Judt, Meron Benvenisti and Jeff Halper have publicly begun to question their commitment to Zionism and consider whether it is not part of the problem rather than the solution.
2006.11.16
Deconstructing David Grossman: If he is Israeli left, who needs right? （ Gilad Atzmon* - Monday, 13 November 2006）
Gilad Atzmon highlights the inherent contradictions in the views of Israeli Zionist author David Grossman who appears to espouse peace with the Palestinians but shows worrying signs of Jewish supremacism.
2006.11.08
Visa regime splits Palestinian families （Report, IRIN, 7 November 2006）
A thousand West Bank Palestinians holding foreign passports have been expelled from their homes and thousands more face a similar fate after Israel tightened its visa regime, according to Palestinian campaigners.
2006.11.03
Interview: Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the Silence （Christopher Brown, The Electronic Intifada, 1 November 2006）
"It's a very terrifying moment because, in one second the military terminology and the way of thinking doesn't apply to you anymore and in one second you lose the justification for 95 percent of actions you took part in the past two years and ten months.
2006.10.15
Report: Pregnancies (and miscarriages) at checkpoints on the rise （IRIN , 07 October 2006）
……I went into labour for several hours with no one to help me. Finally an ambulance came to take me to the Al-Areesh Hospital [in the Sinai] but I gave birth in the ambulance.
"I named my daughter Ma'abar [Arabic for 'crossing'] to recollect the sufferings and hardships we both had at the Rafah terminal," she added.
We Can't Go Home Again （SAM BAHOUR, The New York Times, 7 October 2006）
Now the Israeli authorities have decided that my life here has come to an end.
2006.9.24
Boston Globe:Israeli Policy divides Palestinian families
（by Matthew Kalman, September 23rd）
The Yazbaks are among the thousands of Palestinians caught in what human rights activists call a bureaucratic nightmare that has divided families, prevented visitors of Palestinian origin from visiting relatives in the West Bank, and is inducing many long-term West Bank residents to leave their homes.
2006.9.14
The Dream Philosophy of Paranoids: Kill Arabs, Cry Anti-Semitism （ Norman Finkelstein - Thursday, 14 September 2006）
When rockets and phosphorous cluster （Meron Rapoport ,Haaretz ,13.9.06）
`In Lebanon, we covered entire villages with cluster bombs, what we did there was crazy and monstrous,` testifies a commander in the Israel Defense Forces` MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) unit. Quoting his battalion commander, he said the IDF fired some 1,800 cluster rockets on Lebanon during the war and they contained over 1.2 million cluster bombs.
2006.7.2
Anatomy of the West Bank "Realignment" Plan （David Bloom - Monday, 26 June 2006）
「During Olmert's recent visit, US President George Bush praised his plan for unilateral separation from the Palestinians as a "bold move" for peace. However, before Olmert came to the US, Israel had to shelve its request for immediate approval for its separation plan, called at the time the "convergence" plan, along with a $10 billion request to finance the resettlement of thousands of settlers from one part of the occupied West Bank to another―that is, inside Israel's yet-to-be completed separation barrier, declared illegal by the International Court of Justice at the Hague in July 2004. According to a May 15 report in the right-wing WorldnetDaily.com by Aaron Klein, the US balked at the price tag―so far.」
The Numbers Game、Control of Water、The Jordan Valley、Bi-Level Highways, Permanent Checkpoints、The Industrial Agenda
2006.5.25
Where is the global outcry at this continuing cruelty? （Ghada Karmi、Monday May 15, 2006 The Guardian ）
「Nearly 60 years after most Palestinians were first forced from our homes, the killings and blockades carry on with impunity」
Israel at 58: A Failing Experiment （Sam Bahour, The Electronic Intifada, 15 May 2006）
「U.S. Letter of Recognition of the State of Israel, with the word “Jewish state” omitted by President Truman. (Harry S. Truman Library)」
2006.2.27
Analysis: IDF operation comes as Fatah returns to terror in Nablus （By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent）
"But since the elections, senior PA security personnel have lost the incentive to act, and left the arena open to Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus. Fed by Iranian money, Jihad headquarters are transferring greater sums into the territories to operate as many cells as possible in order to carry out attacks against Israel."
2006.2.21
"Making human drama out of a political crisis"
"Leading Anglican hits back in 'anti-Israel' row" （Guardian,Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Monday February 20, 2006）
"Anglican churchmen hit back yesterday in the increasingly ugly spat between the Church of England and the chief rabbi over the general synod's call for disinvestment in a company making bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes. They denied that their criticism of Israeli government policy was tantamount to anti-semitism."
"Israel's policies are feeding the cancer of anti-semitism" （Paul Oestreicher、Monday February 20, 2006、The Guardian）
"But the main objective of my writing today, is to nail the lie that to reject Zionism as it practised today is in effect to be anti-semitic, to be an inheritor of Hitler's racism. That argument, with the Holocaust in the background, is nothing other than moral blackmail. It is highly effective. It condemns many to silence who fear to be thought anti-semitic. They are often the very opposite. They are often people whose heart bleeds at Israel's betrayal of its true heritage."
2006.2.18
'Who Will Write the History?' （Kevin Sites, Feb 13 2006）（ 魚拓 ）
"Gay filmmakers explore Israel's role as both victim and victimizer
ISRAELI ARTIST
TEL AVIV -- Gal Uchovsky is the writer of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful film "Walk on Water." He and director Eytan Fox are a filmmaking duo exploring thorny historical and contemporary issues facing Israel. "
Caught in the Middle （Kevin Sites, Feb 14 2006）（ 魚拓 ）
"PALESTINIAN ARTIST
NAZARETH -- Ali Suliman is a Palestinian actor who played the part of Khaled in the recent film, "Paradise Now," the only Palestinian film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award."
'We Have to at Least Be Witnesses' （Kevin Sites, Feb 15 2006）（ 魚拓 ）
" TEL AVIV -- It was April 1984 and Alex Levac, along with other Israeli photojournalists, was staking out a bus that had been hijacked by four Palestinians and driven into Gaza. The Israeli army had the bus surrounded and negotiated with the Palestinians through the night in an attempt to end the hijacking and win the release of the hostages."
"IDF establishes 'Israeli-only' entry points that bar Palestinians" （Amira Hass、17 Feb.、Haaretz、cash）
"A military order that took effect last week bars Palestinians with permits to enter Israel from entering via the roads that Israelis use to enter the country from the West Bank."
2006.1.10
The Jews of Iraq （Naeim Giladi）
"About 125,000 Jews left Iraq for Israel in the late 1940s and into 1952, most because they had been lied to and put into a panic by what I came to learn were Zionist bombs. But my mother and father were among the 6,000 who did not go to Israel. Although physically I never did return to Iraq-that bridge had been burned in any event-my heart has made the journey there many, many times. My father had it right."
Reflections By An ARAB JEW （Ella Habiba Shohat）
" Stripped of our history, we have been forced by our no-exit situation to repress our collective nostalgia, at least within the public sphere. The pervasive notion of "one people" reunited in their ancient homeland actively disauthorizes any affectionate memory of life before Israel. We have never been allowed to mourn a trauma that the images of Iraq's destruction only intensified and crystallized for some of us. Our cultural creativity in Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic is hardly studied in Israeli schools, and it is becoming difficult to convince our children that we actually did exist there, and that some of us are still there in Iraq, Morocco, Yemen and Iran."
2006.1.9
Route 181 -- fragments of a journey in Palestine-Israel （Palestine: Information with Provenance）
「【Lubya】http://alcor.concordia.ca/〜pal/History/Villages/lub@vil.html」（Destroyed Palestinian Villages:A Reign of Terror & Systematic Expulsion）
Diaries of a Palestinian refugee.... A short "return" to Lubia
"A woman sat beside me, and another in front of me. On the way, the woman at my side kept staring at the young driver, in a way grabbing attention. Then she whispered to her friend sitting in front of us, “Do you bet he is from Lubia?” Then she looked at me and smiled."
Mechanisms of Denial （by Ilan Pappe and Justin Podur; February 20, 2005）
"Israeli archaeologists were consulted to select names from the Bible that would correspond to the sites. But the names were selected even more deliberately, and even more vindictively, than that. So the Palestinian village of Lubia became the Israeli village of Levi. The names are similar, and they were made that way on purpose. So that children growing up would think only of Levi, but the Palestinians who were expelled would know. They would know, and the name would be close enough to the old name that it would be a reminder."
2005.12.25
Bethlehem passport launched to protect city from wall （ベツレヘム・パスポートについて）
2005.11.14
"London hosts conference "Palestine, Israel and the Law"" （Victor Kattan and Mary Nazzal-Batayneh, 11 November 2005）
the Institute of Education in Logan Hall, Bedford Way, London, Mustafa Barghouti, Diana Buttu, Daniel Machover, Lea Tsemel
（Diana Buttu）She said "economic prosperity" is the new buzz word in Washington and that the occupation is very much being ignored. It seems that the Palestinians should forget, or simply accept the fact that they are living under military rule. The talk with the Americans was about economic development, building institutions etc. She feared that the "Palestinian problem" is going to be transferred into an economic problem".She concluded by suggesting that "we have to demand a change of the international legal structure itself".
2005.11.12
DAM @London "under the groove" (photo)
2005.11.2
"Palestinian Assails Sharon on Gaza Pullout" （By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer、02.Nov）
WASHINGTON - The minister of state for Jerusalem affairs in the Palestinian Cabinet on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of deception in withdrawing from Gaza. ADVERTISEMENTHind Khoury, who joined Mahmoud Abbas' cabinet in February, told reporters "Gaza disengagement was used as a smokescreen to undermine Jerusalem as a subject for negotiations."
"There can be no viable state - without a chance ― without Jerusalem as its capital," she said.
2005.10.17
Living with the Holocaust （Sara Roy,November 14, 2002）
2005.10.12
Gaza family's nightmare comes to an end Yasser Abu Moailek
2005.10.11
Palestinians try to wean Gaza children from war （By Jui Chakravorty、Mon Oct 10、ロイター）
"I want to join Hamas because they try to make me less afraid and I want to make others feel less afraid," said 12-year-old schoolgirl Abir Jarradah, wearing a blue uniform with a white headscarf. "But I also want to become a doctor."
2005.10.9
ICAHD: IOF to Demolish 41 Houses in Sawia
IOF Arrests 4 Citizens, Wounds a Child in WB
2005.9.30
"ONE on ONE: It's the demography, stupid" （May. 20, 2004、JP）
"I thought I'd never hear myself say this," says Haifa University geographer Arnon Soffer, without a trace of self-doubt, "but Israel will have to relinquish the Jordan Valley."
Soffer, a geostrategist widely seen as the originator of Ariel Sharon's separation plan, has never been one to pull proverbial punches.
BEYOND CHUTZPAH : ON THE MISUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE ABUSE OF HISTORY
The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz's assertions on Israel's human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein demonstrates that Dershowitz has systematically misrepresented the facts.
"Justice should begin at home" （By Joshua Rozenberg、15/09/2005、Telegraph）
What officials at the Israel Embassy in London had discovered was that a warrant had been issued for Mr Almog's arrest a day earlier at Bow Street court. The Israelis will not say how they learned this, but suggestions that they were tipped off by the Foreign Office are denied.
Daniel Machover, the solicitor who obtained the arrest warrant at a private hearing, is furious. He believes that anyone who frustrated Mr Almog's arrest by revealing the existence of the warrant must be guilty of perverting the course of justice - a serious criminal offence. He also wants to know why the police, who were apparently watching all flights arriving from Israel, did not execute the warrant once Mr Almog's plane had landed - "airside" areas of an airport are not exempt from the general law.
Mr Machover, who has joint British and Israeli citizenship and founded Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988, had been granted a warrant under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 - the first time, he believes, that such a warrant has been issued. An attempt last year to arrest Shaul Mofaz, a former head of the Israeli army on a visit to London, was unsuccessful because, as Defence Minister, he has diplomatic immunity.
……Back in Israel, Mr Almog said that, as a soldier and as a general, he had never committed a crime. "Many times, I have saved Palestinian lives by risking my life and the lives of my soldiers," he told The Guardian.
Reaction in Israel has, inevitably, been mixed. Gerald Steinberg said in the Jerusalem Post that EU-funded non-governmental organisations - such as the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which backed the case - were exploiting "the language of human rights to pursue the goal of political genocide". Writing in Haaretz, however, Michael Sfard accused the Israeli justice system of shirking its responsibility to investigate war crimes.
The Israeli Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni, said she would seek to persuade countries such as Britain to amend their laws, suggesting that they could otherwise be used against British military commanders over incidents in Iraq.
This move is unlikely to succeed.……
2005.9.29
Homegrown hip-hop catching on among young Palestinians
2005.9.21
"An open letter to Jack Straw MP"
"Amichai Kronfeld, who passed away last week"
2005.9.20
2005.9.17
A mosque once stood here By Meron Rapoport
Hundreds of PA police deploy on Gaza-Egypt border
Israeli media reports said the army may move troops to buffer the long-quiet border with Egypt, alarmed that Palestinian militants might find it easier to bring in weapons without an Israeli military presence on the border.Israel "cannot accept a continued situation where the border will be entirely porous. What is happening in Gaza in recent days is complete anarchy," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told Army Radio.
Israel general 'avoids UK arrest' (BBC,12 September 2005)
British police cancel arrest warrant against retired IDF commander
British police have canceled an arrest warrant against Major General (res.) Doron Almog, wanted for alleged war crimes, a Foreign Ministry official said Friday.The British Embassy in Tel Aviv informed Israel that the case against Almog was being dropped for procedural reasons, said Foreign Ministry official Mark Regev. He cautioned, however, that similar warrants could still be issued in England against Israeli commanders.
"Almog's case has been canceled, but this matter is far from behind us," Regev said.
Members of Yesh Gvul were in contact recently with solicitor Daniel Machover of the London-based law firm Hickman and Rose. The Israeli group also passed on "incriminating" material it had amassed on incidents in the Gaza Strip that were allegedly Almog's responsibility.Israel is concerned that other former soldiers could face arrest in Britain or other countries with such war crimes laws, including Belgium, Spain and Germany. Many former army commanders currently serve as senior politicians or executives in companies doing business abroad.
War crimes prosecution overseas: How should Israel respond?
"Israel should respond by doing the following: A) surrendering its war criminals to the Hague; B) Refrain from committing any more war crimes; and C) Fully comply with international law by ending its occupation, recognizing Palestinian refugee rights and treating its own Palestinian citizens as equals.That should void the need for prosecuting Israeli officers and politicians abroad." Omar Barghouti, Acre, Israel
2005.9.14
Sharon to tell UN: Israel's responsibility for Gaza has ended （September 13, 2005、By Aluf Benn）
Israel wants to strengthen international recognition for the end of its control of the Strip, and for the Palestinian Authority's responsibility for the fate of Gaza and its residents.Sharon has adopted the Foreign Ministry's position that it would be out of place to declare "the end of the occupation" in Gaza, at least as long as the Palestinians do not control the border crossings, airspace and territorial waters. Instead, the ministry prefers "the end of Israeli responsibility."
Israel will try to avoid a legal dispute with the Palestinians and will underscore the practical aspects of their new responsibility in Gaza. This will be Israel's response to Palestinian claims that the Israeli occupation in the territories has only deepened.
The Bush administration has been working behind the scenes to ensure that its European and Arab friends refrain from pressuring Sharon and focus on solidifying the disengagement accomplishments.
Israel impatient to join UN Security Council: ambassador （Tue Sep 13）
" "From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council," Dan Gillerman told Israel's privately owned Channel Two by telephone.Relations between Israel and the United Nations have long been marred by recriminations over the Jewish state's occupation of Arab territory."
2005.9.13
From Palestine with love: West Bank merchants on New Orleans mercy mission
2005.9.10
Army killed unarmed teens, not fighters, Haaretz and B’Tselem probe finds
the killing of five Palestinians by the Israeli army in Tulkarem refugee camp, on August 24, and revealed that the five residents were unarmed, and not fighters, which contradicts the version of the Israeli army.
"Palestine & the Palestinians"; Unique Palestinian Guide Book issued
2005.9.2
2005.9.1
"U.S. will not press for marking settlements boundaries in W.B."
"The U.S. objected, as Israel wanted the boundary marking to begin with the small isolated settlements and leave the marking of large settlements until the end of the process, in keeping with Sharon's position to that they large blocs would eventually be annexed to Israel.As a result, the U.S. cancelled the visit of the mapping team, and talks between Israeli and U.S. officials on this issue stopped, especially after realizing that Sharon is going ahead with his disengagement plan under which Israel evacuated 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four minor ones in the northern West Bank."
2005.8.22
Make sure 'Gaza first' is not 'Gaza last' （Mustafa Barghouthi International Herald Tribune、FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2005）
"Myth of settlers' organizational capabilities proven false" （Ofer Shelah、08.18.05）
Avi Shlaim: No peaceful solution （MERON RAPOPORT、Ha'aretz, 13 August 2005）
In 1982 he came to Israel with a stipend to write a study on the influence of the Israel Defense Forces on Israeli foreign policy. Just then the archives dealing with the 1948 war were opened, and Shlaim found himself sitting in the State Archive for days on end. "Then my eyes were opened," he says. "I had the knowledge acquired in childhood, and I believed in Israel's purity of arms, I believed that Israel was the victim. I discovered documents that showed me other things."
…I worked with diplomatic papers. I didn't feel shame, but I was astonished. I knew that in every country there's a gap between rhetoric and practice, but I don't know of any country where the gap is as great as in Israel. All the leaders speak about peace, Golda Meir used to say that she was willing to travel anywhere in the world to make peace. But these were not truthful words. In the archive, in the Israeli papers, I found that all the Arab leaders were practical people, people who wanted peace.
"Take, for example, Hosni Zaim (the Syrian chief of staff who took over the government in 1949 and was deposed a few months later - M.R.). He said that his ambition was to be the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel. He proposed an exchange of ambassadors, agreed to absorb a quarter of a million Palestinian refugees in Syria, but demanded that the border pass through the middle of Lake Kinneret. He didn't issue any ultimatum about the rest of the refugees. I was astonished by the Israeli reaction. Ben-Gurion said: First we'll sign a cease-fire agreement with Syria, then we'll see. That destroyed my childhood version. It's not that Ben-Gurion didn't want peace, he wanted peace, but on the basis of the status quo. Israel said at the time that there was nobody to talk to. The truth is that Israel was actually saying that there was nothing to talk about."
…From the start, Shlaim was interested in the last of the five points discussed by the new historians: He was interested in the history of the dead end in the relations between Israel and the Arab world. "The Iron Wall" is an abridged history of this dead end. The book took its name from the famous article published by revisionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923. "Their voluntary agreement is out of the question ...," wrote Jabotinsky in that article. "This colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the protection of a force independent of the local population - an iron wall that the native population cannot break through."
…Shlaim considers Sharon a direct successor of the "iron wall" approach. "Sharon never believed that the process could be resolved by peaceful means," says Shlaim. "He was always the master of violent solutions. He has been the prime minister for four years, and he hasn't had a single meeting about the final-status agreement. For Jabotinsky, the iron wall was a metaphor. For Sharon, the wall has turned into a physical reality that mars the landscape, destroys the environment and in the long term is destroying two societies, Palestinian society and Israeli society. The left supports a fence, but I don't believe that it will lead to an agreement."
2005.8.20
Disengagement Riddled with Uncertainty （Mohammed,Monday, August 15, 2005,from Rafah Notes）
Last week, Mohammed did telephone interviews with several Israeli settlers. His article below appeared in Morgenbladet (a Norwegian weekly) on 12 August.
"The Palestinians should thank us for employing them in our land, instead of fighting against us!" Rosen insisted. "It seems that you don’t know our history, you know nothing of the truth. Please go study our history and you'll see we are the owners of this land." Despite her extreme religious views, Ms. Rosen hasn't completely ignored more mundane considerations. Before we finished our conversation, she pointed out the amount of money being offered the settlers "is not enough to buy a flat in the North of Israel!"
Bulldozers demolish homes, but memories linger for Palestinians （Martin Merzer of The Miami Herald、Fri Aug 19）
Standing outside the bullet-riddled apartment building that he and his family abandoned last year after a similar Israeli bulldozer knocked down its walls in a security operation, Abu Alanain found no joy in seeing the Israeli army's D-9s turned on Jewish homes.
Debate on Gaza Withdrawal: Palestinian Sociologist vs. the Zionist Organization of America （Democracy Now!,August 17th, 2005）
Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America.
Rabab Abdulhadi, Palestinian professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is the Director of the University's Center for Arab American Studies.
RABAB ABDULHADI: "Number two, to say that Palestinians are likening Israel to Nazis, I have been reading nothing in every single account of newspapers until now, young Jewish settlers who came from the West Bank to support the settlers in Gaza have been calling the Israeli army Nazis. And I think it's very interesting, because in this sense, nobody is calling these young Jewish settlers anti-Semitic. But when Palestinians and others who are saying, what Israel is doing in the occupied territories, in some instances, looks like what Nazi Germany did. Nobody is saying it's exactly the same."
2005.8.18
Rice: Gaza pullout is only a first step
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Israel will be expected to carry out further withdrawals that would ultimately lead to an independent Palestinian state, Israeli sources reported.
2005.8.17
「ホルムアルデヒド漬け」発言 （Rafah Pundits Radio,17日）
ワイグラス、ホルムアルデヒド発言記事 （ARI SHAVIT Ha'aretz Magazine, 8 October 2004）
