[GushShalom] Not in our Name ! ìà áùîðå last chance to sign & more

[Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)]

GUSH SHALOM  pob 3322, Tel-Aviv  61033 âåù ùìåí, ú.ã.,3322 úì àáéá 

Gush Shalom and the other groups forming together the Anti-Wall 
Coalition invite you to TWO EQUALLY IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES: 

-- Signing the petition (if you didn't yet) which has to published already  
   Monday (start of proceedings re the wall by the International Court) 
-- Showing up at the protest rally Monday 7.30 pm outside the PMs    
Residence J'lem

[Read also about an action Sunday & important developments in the 
refuser movement]


1# Not in our Name ! ìà áùîðå

   Does your name appear already among Israelis Against The Wall?
   Sign up Hebrew/English      / /  çéúîå òáøéú/àðâìéú
   <http://www.gush-shalom.org/petitions/stop/index.html>
  or by sending email to: <gader_ad at yahoo.com>
  checks made out to  “Ha’aretz Newspaper” to the address:
  POB 2030, Jerusalem  91020 [NB: earlier we had a mistake in the 
zip!] .   Further information: Itay 067-300697.     

2#  Monday 23.02 at 7.30 pm - Protest Rally outside the Prime 
Minister’s Residence J'lem
      N.B.: There will be transportation from Tel-Aviv and Haifa. 
     

3# Refusers-update & action Sunday
  

1# Not in our Name ! ìà áùîðå

We, the undersigned, citizens of Israel, completely reject Sharon  
government’s claim that the “Separation Fence” which is being built in 
the occupied territories is intended to defend our  safety and security.  

This fence is being built deep inside the Palestinian territory. It is  
cutting through towns and villages, it is destroying and confiscating  
fields and olive groves, it separates between farmers and their  lands, 
between students and their schools, between patients and  hospitals, 
and it is turning the life of a whole population into hell.  
This fence is annexing settlements to Israel and imprisoning the  
Palestinians in enclaves with the aim of preventing any future  
possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state. While the  government 
is wasting billions of dollars from the almost empty  treasury in order to 
construct the fence, it is cruelly slashing  welfare allocations, thus 
dealing a lethal blow to the poor and  disadvantaged Israeli citizens.  

This is not the way to prevent suicide bombings, but rather to  further 
aggravate the misery, despair and hatred and to perpetuate  the 
conflict for further generations. 

Today we say to the Israeli government: this evil wall is not being  built 
in our name! 

The true and only way to stop the suicide bombings and  bloodshed is 
through a mutual agreement that will end the  occupation and 
oppression, which give birth to the endless  bloodshed. 

   Does your name appear already? If not you can stilkl do it:
   Sign up Hebrew/English      / /  çéúîå òáøéú/àðâìéú
   <http://www.gush-shalom.org/petitions/stop/index.html>
  or by sending email to: <gader_ad at yahoo.com>
  checks made out to  “Ha’aretz Newspaper” to the address:
  POB 2030, Jerusalem  91020 [NB: earlier we had a mistake in the 
zip!] .   Further information: Itay 067-300697.     

2#  Monday 23.02 at 7.30 pm - Protest Rally outside the Prime 
Minister’s       Residence J'lem
      N.B.: There will be transportation from Tel-Aviv and Haifa. 
      RESERVE YOUR SEAT *and* receive details re where & when 
      via  the Gush answering machine:  03-5221732

3# Refusers-update & action Sunday

A new refusenik, Laura Milo - join us on Sunday

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:           	"Anat Matar" <matar at post.tau.ac.il>

“On Sunday, I’ll report to the induction base and say once again that I
refuse to enlist.”

Laura Milo, age 19,
Ending a year of community service in Yerucham
Will report to the main induction base (“Bakum”)

On Sunday February 22nd, at 7.30 a.m.

We’ll accompany Laura with a protest vigil

At the gate to the Tel-Hashomer induction center (“Lishkat hagiyus”)

Affirming her right to exemption from service on grounds of conscience;
Calling the army “Conscience Committee” to retract its decision that, 
“Her
problem isn’t one of conscience.”

Laura wrote:
I cannot take part in the injustices that our country carries out through
the IDF. I am not a pacifist; my objection is to the occupation.

I went to Yerucham … with a sense of pioneering,
forming a new model of community work
Through the young people I worked with and my personal experience
I encountered the ugliness of our society
The injustice guiding the policies of our government
The work … reinforced my sense of duty to create something different.

It is my conscientious duty to tell my truth fully.
I will refuse out of a deeply personal motive:
So I can go on living in this country
At peace with what my conscience tells me.
***

Inbal Gelbert is serving a third term in military prison;
Adam Maor, Haggai Matar, Matan Kaminer, Noam Bahat and Shimri 
Tzameret are serving a second year in prison - All denied the right to 
exemptions on
grounds of conscience.

The “Shministim”; New Profile; The Refusers’ Parents Forum; Yesh Gvul Ask
you to join the our call for: Freedom to live by one’s conscience -
Freedom to refuse crimes of oppression and occupation.

For additional details: Lotahn 053-257242        
Buses to the “Bakum” gate: 45, 55, 64, 70 
Donations to New Profile and to The Refusers’ Parents Forum Can be sent 
to: POB 3454, Ramat Hasharon 47100

P.S. 
re the exemption of the army (at last) of Yoni Ben-Artzi

English
<http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=396360>
Hebrew
<http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=396490>

and re the five being transfered to a civilian prison:

English only
<http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/395885.html>


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http://www.gush-shalom.org/ (òáøéú/Hebrew)
http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html (English)
http://www.gush-shalom.org/arabic/index.html (selected articles in Arabic)

with
\\photos of recent actions 
\\the weekly Gush Shalom ad 
\\the columns of Uri Avnery 
\\Gush Shalom's history & action chronicle  
\\position papers & analysis (in "documents")
\\and a lot more

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