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Von Gideon Levi

Peace Is Justice, and Justice Doesn’t Need a Partner

One of the main claims of Israeli propaganda is also one of the worst — that there is no partner for peace. In fact there was, is and will be a partner. But we can leave that aside. No partner is necessary.

They so dearly want two states and are so against the occupation, say many self-righteous Israelis — and then comes the heartrending sigh, carrying all the sorrow of the Jewish fate — but there’s no partner. If only there were. If only. He is desperate for peace, but there’s no one to make it with. And so he must, he is forced against his will, miserable victim that he is, to continue the occupation. In recent years this shtick has become a central trick of the propaganda of Zion. With the exception of the extreme right, which says openly that it wants apartheid forever because the Jewish nation is superior, everybody uses it. ......
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.747655?&ts=_1476728244552

Women, children are not spared from the violence of occupation

On Wednesday, October 19th, Israeli forces shot and killed 23-year-old Rahiq Shaji Birawi near Za’atara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

A video claiming to show the killing circulated later that day. In the first few seconds of the clip, four Israeli soldiers, filmed from behind, take coordinated steps backwards as they shoot a dozen or so shots towards a motionless figure lying on the ground in the distance.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/231-women-children-are-not-spared-from-the-violence-of-occupation

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian schoolchildren, education officials

On Monday, October 17th, Israeli forces arrested 10 students from the Dar al-Aytam School in the Old City in Jerusalem.

According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Israeli forces pursued and arrested the students soon after they left the school grounds.

Three of the detained children are 15 years old, three others are 16, and four are 17.

The Palestinian News and Info Agency reports that the 10 children were released the following day under the condition of 20-days of house arrest.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/228-israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-schoolchildren-education-officials

Israeli forces detain 3 youths during raid in Ramallah-area village(27-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773758

Israeli forces detain 17 Palestinians, including two young children, in overnight raids(27-10)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773749

Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids(26-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773728

Israeli forces detain Palestinian merchant at Gaza border crossing(26-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773725

Israeli forces detain well-known Palestinian activist Salah al-Khawaja(26-10)

Al-Khawaja is a leader of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), a Palestinian political party aiming to provide an alternative to Fatah and Hamas, as well as an activist for the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements.

PNI Secretary-General Mustafa al-Barghouthi condemned the detention of al-Khawaja, adding that Israeli detention raids and its suppression of Palestinian activists would not break the will and determination of the movement to continue its fight for the freedom of Palestinians.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773723

Israeli forces detain 2 children, teenager in East Jerusalem raids(25-10)

Israeli police Tuesday evening released two Palestinian children from the neighborhood of Shufat in occupied East Jerusalem after hours of interrogations with Israeli forces for alleged stone throwing, while Israeli forces detained another teenager from the village of al-Issawiya during detention raids.

Sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces summoned 12-year-old Palestinian twins Muhammad and Sair Abu Khdeir after raiding their home in Shufat. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773720

2 Palestinian youths detained in Kafr Qaddum en route to pick olives(25-10)

Israeli forces Tuesday detained two Palestinians, ages 17 and 20, as the youths were en route to pick olives near a gate east of the village of Kafr Qaddum in the occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya.

Murad Shtewei, coordinator of a local popular resistance committee, told Ma’an that the two youths, identified as Rafe Muhammad Hussein, 17, and Muhammad Nidal, 20, were stopped by Israeli forces on their way to go olive picking and were held for several hours before being transferred to an unknown location.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773717

Israeli force detain 15 Palestinians, including Al-Aqsa security guard in raids(25-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773707

Video: Israeli soldiers throw stones at Palestinian children
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-soldiers-throw-stones-palestinian-children

Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian near Ramallah in alleged attack on Israeli soldiers(29-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773768

3 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli forces along Gaza border(28-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773767

12 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces during Shufat clashes(27-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773759

Gaza agriculture on brink of collapse

Unlike other manufacturing sectors, the farmers’ economic downfall will have immediate and dire consequences for residents of the Gaza Strip. Even now, the UN’s Relief and Works Agency regularly supplies more than half the residents with sacks of flour, rice, sugar and oil. Fruits and vegetables grown locally make up an important part of their meager diets.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/farmers-agriculture-gaza-strip-collapse-unemployment.html

Israeli army levels lands in Gaza 'buffer zone'
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773751

Palestinian Bedouins defy Israel’s bulldozers

The area around Bir Hadaj provides a stark illustration of how Israel runs an apartheid system.

Located in the Naqab (Negev in Hebrew) region of present-day Israel, Bir Hadaj hosts an agricultural community of around 7,000 Palestinian Bedouins. They are crammed into 6,500 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters).

By contrast, approximately 1,000 Jews live in the neighboring kibbutz of Revivim. It covers an area of 30,000 dunams, one-sixth of which is reserved for olive trees.

Unlike the residents of Revivim, the Bedouins of Bir Hadaj have been repeatedly attacked by the Israeli authorities.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-bedouins-defy-israels-bulldozers/18351

Clashes break out in Bedouin village after Israeli police deliver demolition orders(26-10)

Clashes broke out on Wednesday between Israeli police and local youth in the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj in Israel’s Negev desert, after Israeli police affixed demolition orders on some villagers’ homes.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a number of people during the clashes, and that some Bir Hadaj residents were injured in the process.

They added that Israeli police issued demolition notices for homes belonging to the Abu Murayhil family ordering that the houses be demolished within 24 hours.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773739

Israeli forces raid Palestinian home, use it as temporary military post
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773750

Israel displaces 45 Palestinians in Jerusalem (27-10)

On Wednesday morning, Israeli forces demolished a building in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Thirty Palestinians were consequently displaced, most of them children.

The site was demolished under the pretext that it was built without a construction permit. The multi-unit building stood two stories tall and included four apartments, each spanning 125 square meters.

Issa Jaafreh, the owner of the apartment, told reporters that an official from the municipality of Jerusalem visited the building on Tuesday and informed him that the demolition would commence the following day.

The building was constructed 17 years ago and Israeli authorities issued a demolition order against it nine years ago. Since then, the family has tried to secure a permit for the building, but the Jerusalem municipality repeatedly rejected their efforts.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/236-israel-displaces-45-palestinians-in-jerusalem

Israeli settlers cut down 18 trees on private Palestinian land near Bethlehem(29-10)

Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

Journalist Hani Fanun, whose family owns the trees, said his family went to harvest olives on their land in the Wadi al-Hariq area of Nahalin, and found that settlers from the nearby illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc had cut down over 18 large olive trees.

Fanun told Ma’an that the family’s land is closest to the Bat Ayin settlement -- which is part of the cluster of Israeli settlements that make up the Gush Etzion bloc -- and was reclaimed by the family after an order by the Israeli Supreme Court proved that it belonged to them.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773769

Palestinian succumbs to wounds after a vehicular accident with Israeli settler(26-10)

A Palestinian man succumbed on Wednesday to wounds sustained when an Israeli settler’s vehicle hit his horse-drawn cart a day earlier in the northwestern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya.

Muhammad Daoud, 61, was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening, while his wife Naela Hassan Ali Daoud remained in the Darwish Nazzal hospital in Qalqiliya for treatment of her moderate injuries.

The incident took place on the main road near the village of al-Nabi Elyas while the Palestinian couple was on their way to their farm east of Qalqiliya, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The illegal Israeli settlement of Alfei Menashem is located in the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773746

Israeli court accuses slain Palestinian's twin brother of social media 'incitement'

The public prosecution of Israel’s Jerusalem magistrate court presented on Thursday a list of indictments against the brother of a slain Palestinian youth, accusing him of incitement on social media.

The prosecution accused 20-year-old Muhammad Shuyukhi of inciting “terrorism” on social media following the killing of his twin brother Ali by Israeli forces during clashes in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Silwan on Oct. 11.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773762

Liberal Democrats Expel British Peer for Supporting Palestinian Rights

For decades I’ve joked about an institution I “founded” called the Spinoza Society. It’s a group of distinguished Jews who, over the ages, have been ostracized or excommunicated from their respective Jewish communities for holding views outside the mainstream. They were dissenters who chose a different path. One that took them outside the mainstream, but resulted in ultimate vindication. Of course the first, and charter member was Baruch Spinoza. He was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish Community in the 17th century for speaking heresies in which he denied the Afterlife and that God acted outside the natural order. His co-religionists deemed such views as dangerous and sent him packing.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/10/28/british-peer-latest-member-spinoza-society/

Die Pseudo-Zionisten und ihr schmutziger Krieg gegen die Wahrheit

Es geht um das politische Totschlagargument des Antisemitismusvorwurfs, was natürlich gerade in Deutschland auf fruchtbaren Boden fällt, erreicht mit schmutzigen Unwahrheiten und Diffamierungen gegen aufrechte Menschen, die sich nicht einschüchtern lassen wollen. Das Resultat ist immer das gleiche: Die Pseudo-Zionisten erreichen sofort Gehör und die Medienhoheit, während die Kritiker der israelischen Politik an den Pranger gestellt, ja nicht einmal „öffentlich-rechtlich“ gehört werden.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19138

Auswanderung aus Israel als politische Tat

Die Einwanderung junger Israelis nach Berlin ist beunruhigend „denn es sind genau diese jungen Frauen und Männer die in Israel gebraucht werden“, erklärte der Linksaktivist Uri Avnery neulich in einer Gastkolumne in der Zeitung Haaretz (Young Israelis in Berlin, Return Home!). „Es sind genau diejenigen, die voller Energie, Unternehmergeist und Freiheitssuche sind, die benötigt werden um den Staat aus den Händen Netanjahus und seiner Kollegen zu befreien“.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19209

Why I left the cult

Dear Israel and Israeli Jews,

Maybe it’s pointless writing to you, and I guess I am not expecting a response. I am writing because I feel a certain sense of duty. After all I come from you, so maybe, maybe some of you might listen to me, might get curious, take a risk and entertain what is currently unthinkable to you.

I left what seems like a very long time ago, twenty-five years. I don’t think you’ve changed much since, except for the worse maybe. Psychologies like yours have the nasty habit of getting worse if left untreated. I always remember you as harsh, defensive, hot around the collar and ready to explode at every opportunity, loud and unforgiving. You had pockets of calm and maybe even kindness, but they were reserved for those who lived in the nicer greener places, and they had more money than we did.http://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

Palestinians join Standing Rock Sioux to protest Dakota Access Pipeline
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/palestinians-standing-pipeline/

Aboriginal artist’s message resonates in Palestine

“Survival is a very strong instinct.”

Such words resonate with Palestinians, even when spoken in a different language by a man who embraces a different struggle and lives halfway around the world.

Indeed, much of what Richard Bell, the indigenous Australian artist, had to say in Jerusalem on 14 October could have come from any Palestinian in the city, Gaza or in the diaspora.

And in the sense of showing there is a shared language among the oppressed of this world, Qalandiya International, the biennial contemporary art event, which this year is entitled This Sea is Mine, was a success.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/aboriginal-artists-message-resonates-palestine/18291

Israel breaching Palestinians’ right to development amid ‘epic’ unemployment and poverty, UN report says

“Israel’s occupation is denying Palestine’s right to development and severely hampering its ability to attain even the minimum targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.
“Poverty is rising. Unemployment is rising to epic levels. Food insecurity is becoming more acute. The Palestinian economy is becoming more stifled and less viable under the occupation.

“Israel’s deliberate fragmentation of the OPT and lack of development has negatively impacted human rights.”

Unemployment in the Palestinian territories – the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip – stands at 27 per cent, more than double the rate in 1999.

In Hamas-controlled Gaza, the figure is 42 per cent, rising to 58 per cent among the youth population.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-un-report-palestians-right-to-development-epic-unemployment-poverty-food-west-bank-gaza-a7385186.html

U.N. voted to partition Palestine 68 years ago, in an unfair plan made even worse by Israel’s ethnic cleansing
Palestinians were 2/3rds of the population but offered 43% of land. Then, Israel ethnically cleansed it & took more

The front page of the November 29, 1947 edition of the New York Times read “[General] Assembly Votes Palestine Partition; Margin Is 33 to 13; Arabs Walk Out; Aranha Hails Work as Session Ends.”
Why were the Arabs angry? Because, for the indigenous Palestinians, the deal was a thoroughly bad one. Palestinians comprised approximately two-thirds of the population, yet were offered just 43 percent of their land in the deal.

“Aranha” refers to Osvaldo Aranha, a Brazilian diplomat. As president of the U.N. General Assembly, Aranha lobbied strongly on behalf of the Zionist movement (a settler colonialist Jewish nationalist political movement that called for the creation of the state of Israel). He delayed the vote on resolution 181 by two days in order to give the U.S. and other pro-Israel countries more time to pressure U.N. member states to vote for the plan. Scholar Fred Khouri writes that, in these two days:
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/30/u_n_voted_to_partition_palestine_68_years_ago_in_an_unfair_plan_made_even_worse_by_israels_ethnic_cleansing/