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Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Palestinian peace means freedom from apartheid!
Cartoon of the Day is an Israeli Watch feature which offers a cartoon on a day, and calls it “Cartoon of the Day”. This is not to imply that this is a regular feature, nor that this cartoon is truly the mother of all cartoons for the day in question. Usual disclaimers apply.
One of those rare occasions. Need we say any more?
U.S. criticizes Israel over settlement plans
By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press
Dec. 27, 2006, 3:05PMWASHINGTON — Israel’s plan to construct a new settlement on the West Bank drew rare criticism today from the Bush administration.
If Israel goes ahead, it would violate Israel’s obligations under the roadmap for peacemaking, a State Department spokesman said.
“The U.S. calls on Israel to meet its roadmap obligations and avoid taking steps that could be viewed as predetermining the outcome of future negotiations,” the spokesman, Gonzalo R. Gallegos, said.
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A reduced immigration to Israel is always good news. Well, we have the reasons why this is so: Intifada and Hizbullah. They will deny it but of course its true.
Immigration to Israel falls to 18 year low
Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:54pm ET137
By Steven ScheerLOD, Israel (Reuters) - Immigration to Israel hit its lowest in 18 years in 2006 due to a drop in the number of Jews arriving from former Soviet states, although immigration from North America edged higher, figures showed on Wednesday.
Some 21,000 made “aliya”, the Hebrew word for immigrating to Israel, according to the Jewish Agency, which promotes immigration. The 2006 figure was the lowest since 13,000 in 1988. A total of 22,657 people moved to Israel in 2005.
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Sherri Muzher
With “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid”, former President Jimmy Carter, the statesman who oversaw the first Middle East peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, has provoked a much-needed discussion that rarely ever transpires in U.S. politics and media.
Not surprisingly, some politicians took issue with the book’s title before it was even released, including U.S. Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, a cherished friend to the Arab-American community. He said the use of apartheid “does not serve the cause of peace and the use of it against the Jewish people in particular, who have been victims of the worst kind of discrimination, discrimination resulting in death, is offensive and wrong.”
Conyers went so far as to call Carter “to request that the title be changed. President Carter does not build upon his career as a proponent of peace in the Middle East with this comparison and I hope he and his publisher will reconsider this decision.”
Perhaps he felt South Africans who lived under a brutal apartheid regime would be offended. Yet, interestingly, South Africa’s own Bishop Desmond Tutu and others have referred to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Christians and Muslims as “Israeli apartheid.”
In a 2002 speech in the United States, Tutu said he saw “the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about.” Back in 1999, former South African statesman Nelson Mandela told the Palestinian Assembly: “The histories of our two peoples correspond in such painful and poignant ways that I intensely feel myself at home amongst my compatriots.”
South African author Breyten Breytenbach, who spent nine years in prison for resisting apartheid, wrote in 2002, “I recently visited the occupied territories for the first time. And yes, I’m afraid they can reasonably be described as resembling Bantustans, reminiscent of the ghettoes and controlled camps of misery one knew in South Africa.”
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