[GushShalom] Report on A-Ram struggle against the wall + many alerts

Thu Jun 17 00:09:57 IDT 2004

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - www.gush-shalom.org/

June 16, 2004

[] The wall that separates Palestinians from Palestinians 
   report on A-Ram protest
[] Struggle (against the wall/against house demolitions) on many fronts: 
   in Iskaka, the Negev, in courts, prisons + more
   English summary of attached alerts and reports

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[] The wall that separates Palestinians from Palestinians 
   report on A-Ram protest

[Hebrew attached - òáøéú îö"á ]

"I am speaking here as an Israeli, an Israeli patriot who loves this 
country and all who live in it, Israelis and Palestinians. When I see it 
torn to pieces, it is like seeing a thing of beauty destroyed" said 
former Knesset Member Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom at a press conference 
held inside the protest tent erected by the A-Ram municipality next to 
the ruined main street which is going to be replaced by an 8-meter high 
"Separation Wall." "This Wall has nothing to do with security; it does 
not separate between Israelis and Palestinians; it separates as anybody 
can see Palestinians from Palestinians in order to make their lives 
miserable.
Building a wall here is like building a wall right through Dizengov 
Street in Tel-Aviv or like a wall through 5th Avenue and Champs Elysees."

There were many other speakers: Kadura Fares, the Palestinian Minister 
for coordinating the anti-Wall campaign; Khatem Abdul Kader, member of 
the Palestinian parliament for the Jerusalem area; Knesset Member 
Muhammad Barake of Hadash; Sheikh Taysir Tamimi of the Supreme Muslim 
Court; Rev. Hannah Atallah, spokesperson of the Greek-Orthodox Church; 
Hannah Amira, member of the PLO executive. One recurring theme was: the 
silence of the Arab World.

While the press conference was winding up Israeli and Palestinian women 
arrived, carrying signs and starting a protest march up to the Kalaniya 
Checkpoint to the north. During the march bulldozers stopped working and 
moved aside, and the police did not interfere, contenting themselves with 
closing the road further to the south by barbed wire.

However, later in the afternoon police tear down the protest tent, 
claiming that "it has been built illegally on Jerusalem municipal land". 
A-Ram mayor Sirhan Salayme: "This is A'ram land and I personally as mayor 
approved erecting the tent. As if it not enough that they build a wall 
cutting us off from jobs, businesses and schools in Jerusalem, they also 
want to gag us and prevent the possibility of non-violent protest."

On June 28, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of the A-Ram 
inhabitants, joined by Israeli organizations. Till then however, the army 
is allowed to do all the preparatory work, though not build the wall 
itself.

[] Struggle (against the wall/against house demolitions) on many fronts: 
   in Iskaka, the Negev, in courts, prisons + more
   English summary of attached alerts and reports

-- òáøéú / Hebrew
   "David Nir" <d-nir at zahav.net.il>
   Bail needed for 15 imprisoned Palestinian workers
   for details David 052-991-379 Yakov 050-573-3276  

-- òáøéú / Hebrew
   Yacov Manor <manor12 at zahav.net.il>
   Friday protest of house demolitions 
   in the aftermath of brutal invasion this week of villages in the Negev
   and ongoing discrimination of "unrecognized" villages
   10.00am at Tel Shoket Junction
   transportation 
   Tel-Aviv 8.30 - Arlosorof Train Station ph: 09-7670801,  050-733276

-- òáøéú / Hebrew + English  
   Eitan Bronstein <eytanb at netvision.net.il>
   re planning of Zochrot events

-- [English]
   Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) <emma at hdip.org> 
   complaint about shooting at its ambulance

-- [English]
   B'tselem <noamh at btselem.org> 
   New report calls permit system to Cross Separation Barrier 'Racist'

-- [English]
   Palestine Media Center <pmc at palestine-pmc.com> 
   on: Hunger Strike of P10K Activist Ken O'Keefe 
   in Israeli Jail and with pending deportation

-- [English]
   "IWPS House" <iwps at palnet.com> 
   On how today the villagers of Iskaka along with internationals and     
   Israelis managed to stop the bulldozers. 
   And on continuation of struggle tomorrow and Friday

# The "Breaking the Silence" soldiers' exhibition continues in Tel Aviv 
(until June 25th)
  link for details [in Hebrew only] : http://www.shovrimshtika.org/hebrew/

# Arna's Children June schedule at:
  http://www.arna.info/Arna/movie.php?lang=heb

# Video footage of mass uprooting of olive trees 
  and the women's resistance in Az Zawiya, June 7 
  available at:

  http://www.womenspeacepalestine.org/news8junazzawiya.htm
  (International Womens' Peace Service - IWPS)

# Palestinians draw the map for understanding the Disengagement Plan
  http://www.nad-plo.org/images/maps/pdf/gaza.pdf

# Truth against Truth - opposite views on the history of the conflict
  in 101 steps 

Hebrew / òáøéú
http://www.gush-shalom.org/Docs/Truth_Heb.pdf

English
http://www.gush-shalom.org/Docs/Truth_Eng.pdf

# Boycott List of Settlement Products (newly updated)

Hebrew / òáøéú
http://gush-shalom.org/Boycott/boycheb.htm

English
http://gush-shalom.org/Boycott/boyceng.htm

# Refusniks 

Constantly-updated refusniks lists:

English - http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english/prison/
Hebrew / òáøéú - http://www.yesh-gvul.org/prison/

English - http://www.newprofile.org/default.asp?language=en
Hebrew / òáøéú - http://www.newprofile.org/

Help us free our children from the military prison! (parents of The Five)
          For ENGLISH details please click 
http://www.refuz.org.il/help.html 
          For HEBREW please click 
http://www.refuz.org.il/hebrew/help.html 
          Homepage with lots of information: 
http://www.refuz.org.il/

# Eye-witness reports from the Occupied Territories:

http://www.machsomwatch.org 
  (Israeli women monitoring the checkpoints)
http://www.palsolidarity.org/pressreleases/pressreleases.php
  (internationals throughout OT)

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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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