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The Wall Street Journal Israeli Official Warns
Against a U.S.
Timeline for Peace By JAY SOLOMON And CHARLES
LEVINSON April 13, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304506904575180133341668648.html?KEYWORDS=netanyahu JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
government said it would reject any moves by the Obama administration to
set
its own timeline and benchmarks for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks,
potentially establishing a new fault line between the U.S. and Israel. Key Arab leaders,
such as Jordan's
King Abdullah II, have publicly called
for U.S. President Barack Obama to impose on Israel the parameters for
negotiations, arguing that otherwise the process will stall
interminably.
Senior
White House officials, such as National Security Adviser James Jones,
have also
discussed recently the prospects of Washington
proposing its own Mideast plan, though U.S. diplomats stressed this past
week that such a move wasn't imminent or agreed upon. . . .
"I don't believe this will be accepted by the administration
because it will be a grave mistake...The solution has to be homegrown,"
Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview with
The
Wall Street Journal late Sunday.
Free Gaza Movement
Cementing Our Solidarity with the People of Gaza
WRITTEN BY FREE GAZA TEAM
12 APRIL 2010
POSTED IN NEWS
Israel’s blockade of Gaza is in its third year, and virtually no reconstruction materials have been allowed into the Gaza Strip, which is still in ruins after Israel's massive onslaught in Dec/Jan 2009 which killed over 1,400 Palestinians, almost 400 of them children. . . . This May, The Free Gaza Movement is answering the call for help by sending a flotilla of boats carrying building supplies, humanitarian relief, and human rights defenders from across the world to Gaza. . . . The Free Gaza Movement calls on communities, schools, hospitals, trade unions and families across Ireland and the world to sponsor bags of cement and school supplies to send to Gaza. They will be loaded onto our Irish cargo ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, as part of an international flotilla of ships sailing to Gaza in May. Normally we don't ask for donations for specific items, since all donations to our tax-exempt accounts in Cyprus or the U.S. are used to buy the boats or for operating costs However, we are sending out this special appeal to the hundreds of you who have said, "But can't I contribute to something specific, something that I can be proud to buy and know will help the people of Gaza?" Therefore, we have set up our PayPal account at http://www.freegaza.org/en/donate to accept donations for cement and book bags.
The Jewish Daily Forward
Anat Kam: I Stole IDF Documents To Expose War Crimes
By Ofra Edelman (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service
Published April 12, 2010.
http://www.forward.com/articles/127199/
Classified documents reveal that the Israel Defense Forces had committed war crimes in the West Bank, Anat Kam, the former soldier indicted for espionage over an alleged theft of top secret material, told the court earlier in the year, according to police documents released allowed for publication Monday at the request of Haaretz. In the newly released material documenting court hearings surrounding Kam’s arrest, the journalist and former IDF soldier said that the motivation behind her removal of sensitive military material was to expose “certain aspects of the IDF’s conduct in the West Bank that I thought were of interest to the public.” Kam added that her thinking behind taking the top secret papers was to ensure that “if and when the war crime the IDF was and is committing in the West Bank would be investigated, then I would have evidence to present.”
Salem-News.com
Israel: Walking in the Footsteps of Nazi Germany
Tim King and Gordon Duff Salem-News.com
Apr-11-2010 21:40
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april112010/israel-nizi-tk-gd.php
U.S. media wants you to ignore Israel's constant murderous genocidal campaign against people that takes place every day. (SALEM / CINCINNATI) - Gordon Duff published this amazing and uncanny set of photographs comparing the acts of the Third Reich in Europe, with the oppression of the Palestinian people under the hand of the occupying, militaristic state of Israel. . . . The pictures tell the story of an oppressed group of people who "grew up" to become the oppressors they once perished under. Today's Israel relies on a Biblical philosophy calling Jews "the chosen people" and that is the excuse used to take almost all of the land away from the Palestinians.
The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
Rosner's Domain: The old Israel consensus "is breaking down"
Posted by SHMUEL ROSNER
Sunday Apr 11, 2010
http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entry/the_old_israel_consensus_is
"The old political consensus that brought Republicans and Democrats together in support of the Middle East's only flourishing democracy is breaking down". Look at the disparity that emerges when those results are sorted by party affiliation. While support for Israel vs. the Palestinians has climbed to a stratospheric 85 percent among Republicans, the comparable figure for Democrats is an anemic 48 percent. (It was 60 percent for independents.) And behind Israel's "Top 5" favorability rating lies a gaping partisan rift: 80 percent of Republicans - but just 53 percent of Democrats - have positive feelings about the world's only Jewish country. . . . From Zogby International, meanwhile, comes still more proof of the widening gulf between the major parties on the subject of Israel. In a poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute last month, respondents were asked whether Obama should "steer a middle course" in the Middle East - code for not clearly supporting Israel. "There is a strong divide on this question," Zogby reported, "with 73 percent of Democrats agreeing that the President should steer a middle course while only 24 percent of Republicans hold the same opinion."
The New York Times
Netanyahu Cancels Trip to U.S. Nuclear Summit
By ETHAN BRONNER and ISABEL KERSHNER
April 8, 2010
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has canceled his plans to attend the Nuclear Security summit meeting in Washington next week and will send a minister in his place, Israeli and American government officials said Thursday.
The official declined to explain the last-minute cancellation. But Israeli news media reported that the prime minister feared that Muslim states were planning on using the occasion to raise the question of Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear armed power in the Middle East, but it refuses to discuss the issue and has declined to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The New York Times
Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance
By ETHAN BRONNER
April 6, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Senior Palestinian leaders — men who once commanded militias — are joining unarmed protest marches against Israeli policies and are being arrested. Goods produced in Israeli settlements have been burned in public demonstrations. The Palestinian prime minister has entered West Bank areas officially off limits to his authority, to plant trees and declare the land part of a future state. Something is stirring in the West Bank. With both diplomacy and armed struggle out of favor for having failed to end the Israeli occupation, the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, joined by the business community, is trying to forge a third way: to rouse popular passions while avoiding violence. The idea, as Fatah struggles to revitalize its leadership, is to build a virtual state and body politic through acts of popular resistance. . . . “It’s about putting facts on the ground,” he said in an interview. “The occupation is not transitional so we need to make sure our people stick around. If we create services, it gives people a sense of possibility. I feel we are on a path that is very appealing both domestically and internationally. The whole world knows this occupation has to end.”
The Jewish Daily Forward
Israel Builds Another Barrier, This One To Bar Illegal African Immigrants
By Nathan Jeffay
Published April 05, 2010
http://www.forward.com/articles/127071/
TEL AVIV — Seven years after starting work on the controversial West Bank security barrier, Israel has decided to build another barrier — along its border with Egypt. In March, the Cabinet approved a plan to seal Israel’s southwest border, which is currently secured only by patrols and monitoring devices. Egypt has not raised any objection. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented the decision as necessary to protect Israel’s Jewish majority. In statements released by his office, he argued that the problem with Israel’s southwest border is that, since it is one of the few places where people journeying on foot from Africa can enter a Western country, many Africans go there to sneak into Israel. Since 2005, there has been an influx of Africans to Israel, the vast majority of them Sudanese and Eritreans. Upward of 15,000 Sudanese and Eritreans have reached Israel via Egypt, according to politicians who decry the situation and to activists who defend the entrants. Police estimate that there are currently 100 to 200 illegal immigrants a week. Many leave Egypt out of a fear of deportation by the authorities — a practice highlighted by Human Rights Watch.
Tikkun Jewish Magazine
ZIAD ABU ZIAD, PALESTINIAN LEADER, CALLS FOR STRATEGY OF NON-VIOLENCE
The power of nonviolence
By Ziad AbuZayyad
Last update - 13:26 05/03/2010
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20100304170652338
There are signs of mounting distress among the Israeli police and other security forces in the way they are dealing with the Palestinians who stage weekly demonstrations in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. . . . Disseminating a culture of passive resistance against the oppression and atrocities of the occupation is the most efficacious method for fighting it: It should be promulgated and its circle expanded. It must not remain restricted to pockets of protest here and there, but should become a generalized modus operandi that encompasses all points of contact with the occupation and the settlements, which are trying to gobble up the land and obliterate all features of Palestinian identity. It must be clearly said that nonviolence is morally superior to force. Spreading such a culture is not an easy matter: Palestinians have grown accustomed to opting for force in all its forms in opposing the occupation.
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