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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS NEWSLETTER #13, August 13, 2016.
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; #7 Dec. 17, 2012; #8 March 29, 2013; #9 Oct. 21,
2013; #10 April 28, 2014; #11, July 1, 2015; #12, June 21, 2016).
Contents Israel-Palestinian Newsletter #13, August 13, 2016
Nuclear Armed Israel: Vanunu Jailed Again
Occupation Conflict Today
Documentary on Israeli Media Control: The Occupation of the American Mind,
How Israel Occupies the US: Mnar Muhawesh meets Sut Jhally
Dov Waxman,The American Jewish Conflict over Israel,
why Israel has
become such a divisive issue
Resistance
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
(ELCA) DivestmentWRL supports Black & Palestinian solidarity
Congressional Supporters of Palestinians
Americans for Peace Now, “Do This Not That”
Bernie Sanders’ Critique of Israel
CodePink BDS Movement:
Codepink: RE/MAX stop selling properties in Israeli settlements built on
occupied Palestinian land
Codepink: Letter to John Kerry on Human Rights in Israel and Palestine
Illegal settlements acquired illegally, and Ban
Ki-Moon
“Despair Is Not an Option”: Muste
grantees speak outSloan, “The Olive Grove”
Nuclear Armed Israel
ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR
ARSENAL: VANUNU JAILED AGAIN
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service
No voices are raised in defence of his freedom and it is to all
our shame that the international political/spiritual leadership continue to
abide by the rule: ‘WHATEVER YOU SAY – SAY NOTHING’ when it comes to the
Israeli government’s persecution of a man of conscience, a good man.”
Occupation Conflict Today
By James J. Zogby.
August/September 2016 Washington
Report .
At the Democratic Party platform drafting meeting in late June,
I introduced Bernie Sanders’ amendment to the Israel/Palestine section calling
for an end to the occupation and settlements….
Documentary Reveals How Israel
Convinces Americans Palestine Occupies Israel
In this episode of ‘Behind the Headline,’ host Mnar Muhawesh meets Sut Jhally, an expert on media manipulation and propaganda. In the film ‘The
Occupation of the American Mind,’ Jhally and others examine how high-paid spin
doctors control the media message on Israel.
By Mnar Muhawesh @mnarmuh | July 22, 2016
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MINNEAPOLIS — Following the Holocaust, the world community — led by the United
States and Britain — sought to create a European Jewish-only state.
This humanitarian move, though, utterly failed
in respecting the humanity of the land’s indigenous inhabitants — Christian and
Muslim Palestinians.
Starting in December of 1947, their land and
property was seized and destroyed to make way for the state of Israel, where
white only European Jews would live . Over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled
and over 10,000 were killed by the British and US armed Zionist militias, and
later Israeli forces, during the Nakba, an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe.”
Those expelled by the Nakba and their Palestinian descendants who make up the world’s largest refugee population in the world are not allowed to return to their land.
Yet a recent poll found that nearly half of
Americans believe Palestine occupies Israel — not the other way around.
That’s because the mainstream, corporate-owned media continues to spin a
propaganda wheel that dehumanizes Palestinians and paints Israel as a beacon of
democracy.
Meanwhile, special interest groups like the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, buy their way into the
hearts and minds of our elected officials. Ever wonder why Israel gets $3
billion in annual military funding from Uncle Sam? Connect the dots from the
campaign contributions to the spending bills.
There’s a lot riding on our relationship with
Israel: Apart from serving as a proxy for U.S. relations in the Middle East and
Africa, Israel is America’s second-top destination for arms exports. Yep — the
country’s that’s no bigger than the state of New Jersey is basically a black
check for the military-industrial complex.
But not all Americans are on board with the
notion of Israel as the victim of Palestinian oppression.
Another study showed that 62 percent of the population now believes Israel gets
too much foreign aid, and theBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has made waves across the world, imposing a kind of sanction
against Israel’s economy by targeting Israeli products.
A new documentary, “The Occupation of the American Mind,” brings attention to how Israel’s public relations campaign has
successfully manipulated the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict — in that,
it’s not a conflict at all but a matter of modern-day colonialism, ethnic
cleansing and apartheid.
Today I’m joined by Sut Jhally, executive producer of
“The Occupation of the American Mind” and a professor of communication at the
University of Massachusetts. The film was produced,
written and directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp.
I asked Jhally to explain how Americans are
being kept in the dark about Palestine, and how that prevents a mass movement
against Israeli apartheid from forming in the U.S. http://www.mintpressnews.com/documentary-reveals-israel-convinces-americans-palestine-occupies-israel/218698/
BOOK: Trouble in the Tribe:
The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Dov Waxman
Trouble in the
Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of
Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing
numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support
Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever
before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli policies, and many, especially
younger ones, are becoming uncomfortable with Israel's treatment of
Palestinians. Dov Waxman argues that
Israel is fast becoming a source of disunity for American Jewry, and that a
new era of American Jewish conflict over Israel is replacing the old era of
solidarity.Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews with American Jewish leaders and activists, Waxman shows why Israel has become such a divisive issue among American Jews. He delves into the American Jewish debate about Israel, examining the impact that the conflict over Israel is having on Jewish communities, national Jewish organizations, and on the pro-Israel lobby. Waxman sets this conflict in the context of broader cultural, political, institutional, and demographic changes happening in the American Jewish community. He offers a nuanced and balanced account of how this conflict over Israel has developed and what it means for the future of American Jewish politics.
Israel used to bring American Jews together. Now it is driving them apart. Trouble in the Tribe explains why.
Dov Waxman is professor of political science, international affairs, and Israel studies at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity and the coauthor of Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within. He lives in Boston.
Reviews:
"A meticulous, precise, well-organized survey that takes into account the many different views and will certainly facilitate the heated conversation."--Kirkus (Starred Review)
Endorsements:
"Dov Waxman could hardly have picked a more contentious topic for investigation than the troubled relationship between (and among) American Jews and Israel. But with Trouble in the Tribe, he brings to bear a rare combination of calm, reasoned analysis with scrupulous scholarly research. American Jewish arguments about Israel will certainly continue, but if Waxman’s contribution to it gets the attention it deserves, they should be based far more on complex reality than simplistic fantasy. And we will all be better for it."--Eric Alterman, columnist for the Nation
"Good books, Orwell once wrote, set your scattered thoughts in order--in a way, tell you what you already know. Dov Waxman’s Trouble in the Tribe lays it out: the attitudes, the clashes, the numbers, the future. For a generation, American Jewish solidarity regarding Israel was indistinguishable from the élan of community life. Waxman shows how, and why, this can change, even how Israel has become polarizing for congregational life. A grim, real, necessary book."--Bernard Avishai, Dartmouth College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"This is an extremely important book that will have profound consequences. When puzzled friends ask me why the American Jewish community is now so divided over Israel, this is the book I will recommend."--Kenneth D. Wald, coauthor of Religion and Politics in the United States
"Trouble
in the Tribe is an outstanding
book. Waxman's judgments are fair, judicious, and balanced."--Theodore
Sasson, author of The New
American Zionism
Sanders speech on Israel. Rare sanity on one of the biggest
issues of peace in our world, and compare to Hillary's hard right AIPAC speech,
which in some respects is farther right than Trump even: http://www.timesofisrael.com/absent-from-aipac-sanders-slams-israeli-occupation-disproportionate-use-of-force/
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9th Christian
Denomination to Take Economic Action for Justice in Palestine
Dear Dick,
Huge news! Moments
ago, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted overwhelmingly
(by an estimated 90%)to create an investment screen that would identify
and remove the Church's investments in corporations profiting from
Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, and other human rights abuses
around the world. The new screen has a broad reach, ensuring that the Church
would avoid investments in corporations currently complicit in human rights
violations as part of the Israeli occupation, as well as any future
corporations that become complicit.
Just yesterday, the ELCA voted by a margin of 82%
-- 751 to 162 -- calling for an end to unconditional U.S.
aid to Israel.
ELCA marks the ninth denomination to engage in economic acts of conscience to support justice for Palestinians, following the Quakers, Mennonite Central Committee, United Methodists, Presbyterians, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalists, Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men, and the Alliance of Baptists -- many of those in 2016 alone!
Congratulations to our friends and member groups at the
ELCA, and particularly members ofIsaiah 58, who
led this extraordinary campaign.
ELCA voting member Darla Thiele, Dakota name Shining Star Woman, had this to say before the vote:
As a Native woman, the situation in
Palestine reminds me of what my people have gone through here in America. I
have seen my people lose our land, our lives, our culture -- our songs,
dances, spiritual ways. Like the Palestinians, we have no justice. Treaties
have been broken… We talk about loving our neighbor. We talk about justice.
But where is the justice?... Now is the time for the church to stop profiting
from these injustices. Now is the time to bring healing, to bring peace, to
bring justice.
The US Campaign was proud to work alongside Isaiah 58 and
allies from member groups Israel Palestine Mission Network of the
Presbyterian Church (USA), American Friends Service Committee, Friends of
Sabeel - North America, New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee, and
Jewish Voice for Peace on the ground in support of this crucial effort.
As you know, we can only support this faith-based advocacy with support from people like you. Please be a part of these extraordinary breakthroughs with a donation to the US Campaign today. Onward,  
Anna Baltzer
Director of
Organizing & Advocacy
P.S. Don't miss the US Campaign's 15th National Conference Oct 14-17, where faith leaders and other organizers from around country will gather to network and share what we've learned and where we're heading. We hope to see you there! |
Dick, take these actions:
1. Share this exciting news on Facebook and Twitter.
2. "Like" Isaiah 58 on Facebook. 3. Register for our 2016 National ConferenceOctober 14-17 in Arlington, VA! Follow Us:  Facebook Twitter YouTube Blog Vimeo |
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Ten Senators, 18 Representatives in
114th Congress’ “Hall of Fame” by Shirl
McArthur.
August/September 2016 Washington Report .
With elections approaching, the Washington Report is
pleased to again present its scorecard for the current members of Congress….
[See how your member of Congress rates.]
Americans for Peace Now (APN): “Do This Not That”
http://peacenow.org/page.php?name=do-this-not-that-2016#.V3vbDPkrK1s
A Changing Discourse: Why Bernie Sanders' Critique of Israel
Matters By Michael Corcoran. Tuesday, 26 April
2016. Truthout | News Analysis.
Bernie Sanders' calculated decision to
criticize Israeli abuses was timid yet unprecedented, reflecting evolving views
in the US. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)
Bernie Sanders' criticism of Israel at the Democratic debate in Brooklyn,
New York, on April 15 was not especially harsh. The presidential candidate said
"we are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and
dignity" and that Israel used "a disproportionate attack" during
the 50-day war in Gaza in
2014. These comments, as Ali Abunimah said on the Real
News Network, are "really the minimum we should hear from any honest
person." Still, the fact that Sanders willingly said these things -- in a
presidential debate in the state with the highest Jewish population in the
country -- is both unprecedented and historic. "In the context of US
politics, this exchange was extraordinary," Abunimah said. MORE
Absent from AIPAC, Sanders slams Israeli occupation, disproportionate’
use of force
Democratic underdog offers scathing
criticism of settlements, Netanyahu government, insists one can be ‘pro-Israel’
while supporting Iran deal. Peace
'will require that organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah renounce their
efforts to undermine the security of Israel'
BY REBECCA SHIMONI STOIL March 22, 2016, 3:23 am 37 http://www.timesofisrael.com/absent-from-aipac-sanders-slams-israeli-occupation-disproportionate-use-of-force/
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, acknowledges his supporters on arrival at a
campaign rally, Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Miami, Florida. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
WASHINGTON — While declaring his
commitment to Israel’s security, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vermont) accused Israel of using disproportionate force in its military
operations and pilloried the settlement policies of the Netanyahu government,
in a speech released Monday while the candidate campaigned in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
After raising eyebrows by
choosing to campaign in the mountain West rather than attend AIPAC’s annual
Policy Conference in Washington — the four other candidates for president all
visited the pro-Israel confab — Sanders’s undelivered address, which he had
previously offered to deliver before AIPAC via video link, discussed the topics
he would likely have raised there.
“I have a deep personal
connection to Israel,” Sanders said in the text, quipping that he was “fairly
certain I am the only US presidential candidate to have ever lived on a
kibbutz.”
Sanders is America’s first Jewish
candidate for the presidency from a major political party. Although he lost to frontrunner Hillary Clinton in five of the
six most recent primary contests, Sanders resoundingly defeated the former
secretary of state in the primary held among Democrats abroad. The results of
that poll were revealed on Monday, hours before his campaign posted the foreign
policy speech on its official website.
Sanders emphasized that Israel
“is one of America’s closest allies” and that Americans “as a nation – are
committed not just to guaranteeing Israel’s survival, but also to its people’s
right to live in peace and security.”
Echoing arguments made by the
current administration, Sanders said that the very closeness of the friendship
between the two states obligated the parties “to speak the truth as we see it.”
“Our disagreements will come and
go, and we must weather them constructively,” he asserted.
The progressive sweetheart’s
speech paired criticism of Israel with criticism of Palestinian actions, but
while he mentioned terrorism in the framework of ISIS and Hezbollah, Sanders’s
address referred to the ongoing wave of violence against Israeli civilian and
military targets alike only as “attacks.”
Sanders pledged to “work
tirelessly to advance the cause of peace as a partner and as a friend to
Israel” but argued that “to be successful, we have to be a friend not only to
Israel, but to the Palestinian people.”
“There is too much suffering in
Gaza to be ignored,” Sanders declared, but stopped short of ascribing blame for
the cause of the suffering.
Sanders, like his Democratic
opponent former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, expressed his support for
the two-state solution, describing it as “the only prospect for peace.”
The Vermont senator outlined his
plan to reach such a solution.
“The first step in the road ahead
is to set the stage for resuming the peace process through direct
negotiations,” he began. “It means building confidence on both sides, offering
some signs of good faith, and then proceeding to talks when conditions permit
them to be constructive.”
In order to do so, he said, there
must be “unconditional recognition by all of Israel’s right to exist” and “an
end to attacks of all kinds against Israel.”
Peace, he said, “will require
that organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah renounce their efforts to undermine
the security of Israel” – an unlikely precondition for Hamas, which has
steadfastedly refused to remove calls for Israel’s destruction from its
official charter.
Sanders said that in order to
achieve peace, Israel would have to “end what amounts to the occupation of
Palestinian territory, establishing mutually agreed upon borders and pulling
back settlements in the West Bank, just as Israel did in Gaza.”
“Peace also means security for
every Palestinian. It means achieving self-determination, civil rights, and
economic wellbeing for the Palestinian people,” Sanders said.
He spoke out against what he
described as “Israel’s recent expropriation of an additional 579 acres of land
in the West Bank,” which he said “undermines the peace process and, ultimately,
Israeli security as well.”
The senator accused Israel of
“disproportionate responses to being attacked,” while adding that “any attack
on Israel is unacceptable.”
“Peace will also mean ending the
economic blockade of Gaza. It will mean a sustainable and equitable
distribution of precious water resources so that Israel and Palestine can both
thrive as neighbors,” he added.
“Inadequate water supply has
contributed to the degradation and desertification of Palestinian land,” he
argued. “A lasting peace will have to recognize Palestinians are entitled to
control their own lives, and there is nothing human life needs more than
water.”
He lashed out against the current
Israeli government, saying that it was “absurd for elements within the
Netanyahu government to suggest that building more settlements in the West Bank
is the appropriate response to the most recent violence,” and that it was “also
not acceptable that the Netanyahu government decided to withhold hundreds of
millions of shekels in tax revenue from the Palestinians, which it is supposed
to collect on their behalf.”
His critique of Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was more limited, saying that it was
“unacceptable” for Abbas “to call for the abrogation of the Oslo Agreement when
the goal should be ending the violence.”
Sanders was more critical of the
Hamas government in Gaza, saying that he “strongly object[s]” to Hamas’s “long
held position that Israel does not have the right to exist.”
After critiquing Hamas’s
behavior, Sanders once again balanced his critique with a reminder that he,
“along with many supporters of Israel – spoke out strongly against the Israeli
counter attacks that killed nearly 1,500 civilians, and wounded far more,”
including “the bombing of hospitals, schools and refugee camps.”
Sanders called on the
international community to “come together to help Gaza recover.”
He also discussed regional
challenges throughout the Middle East.
Sanders, who has prided himself
on opposing the Bush administration’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, said that the US
should continue to fight Islamic State. “There is no doubt in my mind that the
United States must continue to participate in an international coalition to
destroy this barbaric organization,” he argued.
“The US must also play a greater
role disrupting the financing of ISIS and efforts on the Internet to turn
disaffected youth into the next generation of terrorists,” he continued.
At the same time, he noted that
“while the US has an important role to play in defeating ISIS, it must be led
by the countries in the region, some of whom have for too long not only turned
a blind eye to violent extremism, but have encouraged and funded it.”
“The major powers in the region –
especially the Gulf States – have to take greater responsibility for the future
of the Middle East,” he continued. “Wealthy and powerful nations in the region
can no longer expect the United States to do their work for them. We are not
the policeman of the world.”
Stronger US military involvement
in Syria, he warned, “would simply prolong the war, and increase the chaos in
Syria, not end it.” Instead, Sanders insisted, “the only solution in Syria is a
negotiated political settlement.”
Sanders emphasized his opposition
to the Iraq War as reflecting his opposition to unbridled military
interventionism. “It is my firm belief that the test of a great nation, with
the most powerful military on earth, is not how many wars we can engage in, but
how we can use our strength to resolve international conflicts in a peaceful
way,” he said. “Yes, the military option should always be on the table, but it
should be the last resort.”
[IRAN] The Democratic candidate, who enjoys strong
support from a younger demographic in his party, reiterated his support for the
Iranian nuclear deal signed last July, which was implemented in January.
“The bottom line is this: if
successfully implemented – and I think it can be – the nuclear deal will
prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” he stressed. While acknowledging
that the agreement does not achieve everything he would like it to, he insisted
that “it is far better than the path we were on with Iran developing nuclear
weapons and the potential for military intervention by the US and Israel
growing greater by the day.”
“I do not accept the idea that
the ‘pro-Israel’ position was to oppose the deal,” Sanders argued.
“If Iran does not live up to the
agreement, we should re-impose sanctions and all options are back on the
table,” he continued, while calling on the world to “stand united in condemning
Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests as well as its continued support for
terrorism through groups like Hezbollah.”
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CODEPINK: PROTECT
PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
To: Secretary of State John Kerry
Dear Secretary Kerry,
We call on the US State Department to make a public statement
upholding the rights of peaceful Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders
in accordance with the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Defenders.
Recent threats against Palestinian and Israeli human rights
defenders have included such things as:
Israeli Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz’s
calling for "targeted civil eliminations"of Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) leaders, specifically mentioning by name Boycott National
Committee member Omar Barghouti.
Death threats against the Palestinian activist Emad
abu-Shamsiyah,who filmed the March 2016 extrajudicial killing of a wounded
Palestinian suspect Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif.
Ongoing attempts to shut down Breaking the Silence, an
organization for Israeli veterans that publishes testimonies of Israeli
soldiers who have witnessed war crimes.
Ongoing death threats, unwarranted arrests, and attempts to shut
down the work of Hebron-based Palestinian nonviolent activist Issa Amro.
These are not empty threats: there was an arson attack on the home
of a key Palestinian witness in last year's Duma arson attack case, which
killed a Palestinian mother and father and their 18-month old son.
The safety of witnesses, whistleblowers, and nonviolent
activists must be protected, as well as the right to freedom of expression and
peaceful protest. Because Israel is the top recipient of US military
assistance–– $3.1 billion dollars annually approved by the State Department––
it is incumbent upon the State Department to closely monitor and respond to the
human rights situation in Israel/Palestine.
To this aim we call on the US State Department to make clear to
its counterparts in Israel, in a written public statement, that the Obama
Administration expects the Israeli government to preserve the safety and uphold
the rights of Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders. Incitement to
violence against human rights defenders must not be countenanced, whether
coming from Israeli government officials or lawless right-wing settlers.
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“Despair Is Not an Option”: Muste grantees
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How can we end occupation and violence in Palestine/Israel? We asked our grantees, and they responded.
*How do you hold on to hope? What motivates you to keep resisting?*
We do not always hold on to hope. But, even if sometimes without hope, we can and will express that we don’t agree. As Palestinians cannot stop being occupied, we owe them at least this solidarity.
-Gush Shalom team
We hold onto hope when Palestinians approach us and let us know that our presence in the military courts, or in the checkpoints, makes a difference. We also feel hope when we take Israelis of all ages to see the checkpoints and to meet Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and they tell us afterwards how we have challenged their views and perspectives. We say that we will not finish our work until the Occupation is over, and the military administration is dismantled.
-Ela Greenberg, MachsomWatch
My hope springs from the many people I meet who desire the same changes I do, people from both sides of the conflict. Despair is both the easiest and most impossible choice for us. I can speak for the people who work with me when I say that we feel personal responsibility to find a way forward. I wake up every morning with an understanding that there is no other choice than a shared society between Israeli Jews and Arabs.
-Jamal Alkirnawi, A New Dawn in the Negev
When we think of those who are living the struggle every moment--the family whose home Rachel stood before in Gaza, our many friends there and throughout a very turbulent Middle East, our Palestinian friends in the U.S. and throughout the world steadfastly challenging displacement, and our colleagues inside Israel who work endlessly for change despite great threat and many obstacles--we know we must resist with them. It is energizing, because it is right.
-Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel Corrie Foundation
Despair is not an option. We believe that we have no alternative but to continue the struggle for a just resolution of the conflict. And as neighbors whose fates are intertwined--someone once called us Siamese twins--we are committed to continuing to work together, for the sake of future generations of both peoples.
-Ziad AbuZayyad and Hillel Schenker, Palestine-Israel Journal
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How can we end occupation and violence in Palestine/Israel? We asked our grantees, and they responded.
*How do you hold on to hope? What motivates you to keep resisting?*
We do not always hold on to hope. But, even if sometimes without hope, we can and will express that we don’t agree. As Palestinians cannot stop being occupied, we owe them at least this solidarity.
-Gush Shalom team
We hold onto hope when Palestinians approach us and let us know that our presence in the military courts, or in the checkpoints, makes a difference. We also feel hope when we take Israelis of all ages to see the checkpoints and to meet Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and they tell us afterwards how we have challenged their views and perspectives. We say that we will not finish our work until the Occupation is over, and the military administration is dismantled.
-Ela Greenberg, MachsomWatch
My hope springs from the many people I meet who desire the same changes I do, people from both sides of the conflict. Despair is both the easiest and most impossible choice for us. I can speak for the people who work with me when I say that we feel personal responsibility to find a way forward. I wake up every morning with an understanding that there is no other choice than a shared society between Israeli Jews and Arabs.
-Jamal Alkirnawi, A New Dawn in the Negev
When we think of those who are living the struggle every moment--the family whose home Rachel stood before in Gaza, our many friends there and throughout a very turbulent Middle East, our Palestinian friends in the U.S. and throughout the world steadfastly challenging displacement, and our colleagues inside Israel who work endlessly for change despite great threat and many obstacles--we know we must resist with them. It is energizing, because it is right.
-Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel Corrie Foundation
Despair is not an option. We believe that we have no alternative but to continue the struggle for a just resolution of the conflict. And as neighbors whose fates are intertwined--someone once called us Siamese twins--we are committed to continuing to work together, for the sake of future generations of both peoples.
-Ziad AbuZayyad and Hillel Schenker, Palestine-Israel Journal
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THE OLIVE GROVE by Gerald Sloan January 2016
(for Zohreh)
If you're on the wrong
side of the Great Divide
you are quickly pronounced
a 'militant',
where boys over
twelve can be classified
as enemy combatants,
though the killing
machine does not concern
itself with age
or gender. A woman
guarding the entrance
to a
thousand-year-old olive grove
sends roots down deeper
than these trees
fertilized by the blood of
her relatives.
You could say she has
nothing, or nothing to lose.
Contents Israel / Palestine Newsletter # 12
[Some of the following items are dated but their relevance is not. –D]
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/06/israeli-palestinian-newsletter-12.html
ISRAEL’S COST TO US
Israel's cost to U.S. taxpayers:
PBS Frontline, “Netanyahu at War” (1-5-16)
“Netanyahu at War” Google Search (1-6-16)
Lisa Goldman, “A Deeply Flawed Documentary”
Netanyahu War Criminal Google Search
Dick, One Temple Rejects Zionism
Conflict Today
Beinart, Crisis of Zionism
Why Do They Stab US?
US Mainstream Media
Israel Lobby
Israel Lobby’s Free Trip to Israel for Freshmen Congressmen
Landay, Iran and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenals
Resistance to Occupation
Ann Wright Sues Barak
Protest Natanyahu’s Visit to US
End the Occupation, Anna Baltzer
US Campaign National Conference in Atlanta 2015
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Remi Kenazi
Martin Luther King, Jr., African Americans Visit Palestine Find Common Ground
Solution
International Protection Force
US Media Tell the Truth in Headlines
Israeli and Palestinian Culture
Letty Pogrebin Presents: New Book by Amos Oz and His Daughter Fania Oz-
Salzberger
END
ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS NEWSLETTER #13
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