[GushShalom] The Beginning Of Change? + action news

[Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)]

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[] The Beginning Of Change? - Gush ad this Friday in Haa'aretz
[] REMINDER Saturday night, Rabin Square - Anti-Fence coalition meets at 6.30
[] Say NO to the policy of expulsion, Monday
[] Ongoing solidarity activities

[] The Beginning Of Change? - Gush ad this Friday in Haa'aretz
Gush Shalom ad published in Ha'aretz, November 1, 2002.

The Beginning Of Change?
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The Sharon-Fuad-Peres government has fallen apart, 
after leading us to political, military and economic 
disaster. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a partner in all its 
misdeeds, has abandoned it.

He did this in order to win his party’s primaries and 
remain at its helm.

This means he feels that the general public loathes this 
government, which loots the money of the poor in 
order to enlarge the settlements and willfully blocks 
every road to peace; a government that has nothing to 
offer but permanent war, economic decline and social 
degeneration.

That is why Ben-Eliezer has adopted, belatedly, a 
dovish agenda. One cannot believe him, but one can 
believe his calculation: that the public is fed up with 
the war and is longing for a leader with a message of 
peace.

The struggle of the peace forces has helped to create 
this situation. Let’s redouble our efforts, in order to 
achieve a real change. 

Gush Shalom,
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[The following two are actions in which Gush Shalom takes part.]

[] REMINDER Saturday night, Rabin Square - Anti-Fence coalition meets at 6.30

On Saturday night, Nov. 2, at 7.30 PM - the annual Yitchak Rabin Memorial
Rally in Tel-Aviv's Rabin Square. During this rally, we are going to distribute stickers showing 
the historic handshake between Rabin and Arafat - to remind those who tend to forget
why Rabin was actually murdered. 

Also, Gush  Shalom together with Bat Shalom, Kvisa Sh'hora and the Women's Peace 
Coalition, will recreate on the square the "Separation Fence" (Separation Wall is a more 
appropriate name) which is being currently built around the West Bank, involving the widespread
confiscation of Palestinian fields and olive groves, demolition of houses, etc. 
Conspicuous signs will themselves form a wall with the text: "The Evil Fence - A Ghetto for 
Palestinians, a Disaster for Israelis". 

N.B.: We meet on Saturday night, Nov. 2, at 6.30 - an hour before the rally opens -
near the stairs on the western side of the Rabin Square (the side facing
the Ben Gurion Boulevard).

(May strengthened opposition to the government start tomorrow at the square!!)

[] Say NO to the policy of expulsion, Monday

Invitation to an evening

Stop the transfer!!

Say NO to the policy of expulsion
Of Palestinians in the South Hebron hills!

Repeated expulsions, demolition of homes, caves and tents,
destruction of water sources, uprooting of fruit trees, prevention of farming 
and grazing, expropriation of land and the construction of new settlers’ 
outposts, and various restriction orders – all of these are the fate of the
Palestinian cave-dwellers who have lived for many generations in the South 
Hebron hills. Settlers also harass Palestinians working their fields and 
children on their way to school, while the security forces do nothing to stop 
them.

You are invited to an evening on the subject, to be held on Monday,
November 4th, 2002, at 8 p.m., at the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa, 10 
Mifratz Shlomo St. (next to the Hamam) in the Old City, Jaffa.

Among the participants: Dror Etkes, Gabi Eldor, Yossi Banai, Aviv Gefen, 
David Grossman, Tal Haran, DAM – Lod Rappers, Attorney Manal Hazan, 
Attorney Shlomo Lecker, Ruba Murkus, The Jaffa Arab-Hebrew Theater
MC – Roni Ninio

Bat Shalom, Gush Shalom, Israel Committee Against House Demolitions, The 
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Alternative Information Center, 
“Yesh Gvul”, Adalah, Coalition of Women for Just Peace, Rabbis for Human 
Rights, Peace Now, Ta’ayush.


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[] About ongoing solidarity activities

for olive-picking during the coming week

contact:
Yakov Manor - 09-7670801/7678457 / 050-733276 
Rabbi Arik Asherman 02-566281 / 050-607034 / 

for staying over the night in Hirbat Yanoun

Call: 
Ruthi 03-5739853 / 055-390402, Esti 03-5254525 / Isadora 03-5274071.

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