All Hail the Israeli Resistance part 8

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IN COLLOQUIAL Israeli Hebrew, when someone discovers something that everybody else already knows, we say: "Good morning, Elijahu!"

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[url=http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1223200150/]Summing Up[/url]

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Fathiya Barghouti, the mayor of Qarawat Bani Zeid, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, has to lie every time she submits the draft budget to the ministry for local government – under the law, it cannot be approved if it shows a deficit. She is not the only one: not a single local council has managed to avoid a chronic deficit, especially since 2006, when the international boycott of the Hamas government began and the impact of the Israeli siege hit more severely than ever. “They promised us they would change the law and make it correspond to reality,” says Barghouti. “But they can’t, because the Legislative Council [parliament] isn’t functioning.”

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[url=http://mondediplo.com/2008/10/11ataleof]A tale of two parliaments [/url]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG_ckGo8grI]Three Wise Women[/url]

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Recently I was asked by the German Else-Laker-Schueler-Gesellschaft, which commemorates the German-Jewish-Israeli poetess, to describe how peace would look like. On the eve of Yom Kippur, the day of reconciliation, I would like to distribute it instead of my weekly article.

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[url=http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1223418879/]A Fairy Tale [/url]

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THROUGHOUT ITS thousands of years of history, Akko has never been an Israelite town.

Even according to the mythological story of the Bible, the Israelites did not conquer the city, which was already an ancient port. The first chapter of the Book of Judges, which contradicts much of the description given in the Book of Joshua, states unequivocally: "Neither did [the tribe of] Asher drive out the inhabitants of Akko. (Judges 1:31)

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[url=http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1224366421/]Is Akko Burning?[/url]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-555kp79X6k]Amira Hass in Italy(this video is in Italian and Hebrew)[/url]

[url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4064644359948110436&hl=en]Jeff Halper - From Apartheid to Warehousing[/url]

[quote]The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said yesterday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. He spoke at a meeting with 11 European parliamentarians who sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip to protest Israel's naval blockade of the territory. Haniyeh told his guests Israel rejected his initiative. [/quote}

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1035434

 

Haniyeh: We will accept Palestinian state within '67 borders

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GAZA - Since yesterday morning, Gaza City has gone back to readying for long blackouts. In the Tel el Hawa neighborhood in the southern part of the city, the electricity went out at 8 a.m. When children came home from school, the lights had still not come back on. When their parents returned from work, the electricity was still out.

 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1035960

 

Powerless in Gaza, residents rely on tunnels

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There was not a single public commemorations in Gaza of the fourth anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death (November 11, 2004). The rallies scheduled for Gaza Strip cities were canceled by order of the police, Fatah officials said. However, a spokesman for the Hamas government said there had been no request made for a permit for the demonstrations.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1036442

 

No ceremonies for Arafat in Gaza

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The tag "extremist" is best to be avoided; being essentially relative, its main function is defamatory. "Extremists" are those who are on the farthest margin; but margins are relative and volatile. Many Israelis would say a person supporting full Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines is an "extremist," just because this position – shared, in fact, by most states and people on the globe, as well as by international law and the United Nations – is marginalized within Israel. I guess in Saudi Arabia, supporters of women's right to drive a car are "extremists" too.

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http://antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=13730
  
Black Israeli Voices on Obama's Victory

GAZA - Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip are strengthening the stance of extremists there, the director of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the coastal territory, John Ging, told Haaretz last week. By not easing restrictions at crossings into the Strip during the months of the cease-fire, Israel bolstered extremists' claims that the closures represent a political, rather than security-related move.

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UNRWA head in Gaza: Israel's policy strengthens extremists

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1037543

Let's not be dragged into calculating how many tons of rice, flour and cooking oil there are in the Gaza Strip 10 days after Israel once again hermetically sealed all the crossings into the enclave. Let's not count the number of children who wait for a nutritious meal at UN Relief and Works Agency schools, and the number of families to whose doorstep Hamas delivers boxes filled with grocery staples. (There are those who swear that these groceries are only given to Hamas members and supporters.) Let's not calculate the number of people dependent on their families for sustenance. There is food in the Gaza Strip, and there will continue to be. Does anyone really think that Israel, the state of the Jews, would allow 1.5 million people to be tossed, crowded and crammed, behind the barbed-wire fences and watchtowers surrounding the narrow strip and starve to death?

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1037879

Is Israel deliberately strengthening Hamas?

repeat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyANdnpb4Ek

Policeman Head-butts Palestinians in Jerusalem

The ongoing power struggle between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and Hamas' government in Gaza may prevent several thousand Palestinian Muslims from the Gaza Strip from fulfilling their religious obligation of visiting Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1041320

Hamas government in Gaza seeks to bypass PA on death penalty

If it's not the power getting cut, leaving entire neighborhoods in darkness, then it's the water not reaching the top floors or the cooking gas running out. If you have an electric generator, some small part of it is bound to be broken and unfixable, because even before the hermetic three-week siege, Israel prohibited bringing in any spare parts for cars, machines and household electric appliances.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1041345

This Is Gaza

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THE ISRAELI OBAMA. What will he look like, the Israeli counterpart of Barack Obama? What will be his attributes?

That is a tantalizing question. It goes without saying that one cannot construct a human being according to a recipe, like a cake from a cook book. But one can, at least, consider a few of the desired traits.

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1228046555/

Barak Ovadya, Candidate

 

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O27ZJ6c0V8

Jerusalem municipality demolishes houses

 

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Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york

GAZA - The Hamas government is preventing thousands of Muslims from leaving the Gaza Strip to go on the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca - a religious duty - on the Id al-Adha (feast of the sacrifice) holiday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1043042

Hajj in exchange for power

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Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york

 

 The committee coordinating the struggle to free Gilad Shalit went all the way to Auschwitz where, it is reported, its members distributed 888 yellow flowers. That was in October, and we can only hope that this media gimmick will not be repeated, either because an agreement will be reached in the near future or because the organizers will understand how lacking in taste that move was.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1045662

Instead of Auschwitz

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Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york

 

Wooden handles for brooms, metal rulers for graphics classes, study books and public library books, refrigerators, musical instruments and needles

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1046055

UNRWA struggles for permits to import musical instruments, textbooks into Gaza  

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 Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york