In partial replacement of the printed bi-monthly, Adam Keller started a blog
 
Crazy Country 
Notes and observations from September 2009 till today
 
  see also:
August 1, 2010:
Is Israel singled out – and why?
October 1, 2011
The end of the Oslo years
and, written for New Politics, winter issue 2011/2012, pre-published with their kind permission
Wrestling on shaky ground
Israel, Palestine and the decline of a superpower
 
The Other Israel ARCHIVE 1983-2009 (complete from 1994-2009, earlier part under construction)
 

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Occupation Magazine  May 14,, 2012

Their Fate is in Our Hands

What we posted today:

Their Fate is in Our Hands
Thursday, May 17th: 24 hours of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
 
May 15 - Tel Aviv Commemoration of Nakba Day
Zochrot will commemorate the Nakba Day by doing what the police prevented at The Israeli Independence Day
 
`Judicial proceedings against Muhammad Bakri would be a severe Violation of the Freedom of Expression`
Vardit Shalfy and Rani Blair - Hundreds of Israeli public figures and concerned citizens wrote to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, calling upon him to reject the idea of prosecuting actor Muhammad Bakri over his film "Jenin, Jenin". Any such action � which the Attorney General is reported to be mulling - would "constitute a severe and completely unwarranted violation of the Freedom of Expression in Israel".
 
IDF closes Palestinian school to make way for West Bank training zone
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - In 1999, the residents were evicted but petitioned the High Court of Justice, which issued an interim injunction allowing them to return until it issues a final ruling. Ever since, the case has been stuck in court.
 
Activists blocking Maale Edumin entrance
Fadi Arouri - About 40 Palestinian, Israeli and International Activists succeed in closing the entrance of Ma`ale Adumin settlement, in support of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners
 
Visualizing Occupation: Freedom of movement
Michal Vexler - +972Magazine - Whereas West Bank settlers can travel freely between Israel and the West Bank, Palestinian movement is governed by the Israeli security establishment. This is the fourth in a series on the effect of the occupation on the Palestinian civilian population.
 
Clashes at Tel Aviv Univerity`s Nakba Day rally
Shahar Chai - Y-net - Ethan Bronstein of Zochrot: "After the end of the confrontation at Tel Aviv University, I had a chance for a short talk with the Kahanist KM Michael Ben Ari. I told him: `You can`t deny that there were many more of us then there were of you`. He said `No, but if you discount the Arabs and the homosexuals, there were more of us.` To which I replied: `Please let Hitler lie quietly in his grave`" (translated by Adam Keller from Bronstein`s message on Facebook).
 
Egypt brokers deal to end hunger strike
Ma`an - "We are waiting for the strikers� response on what was agreed on, the leaders of the strike will meet today in Ashkelon prison to discuss the issue and announce their final position, which will determine the future of the strike."
 
Apprehension of war crimes prosecutions moves Netanyahu to confront settlers
Chaim Levinson - Ha`aretz - Last month, PM Netahyahu ordered the evacuation of a Hebron house taken over by settlers. This week, he vetoed a bill which would have legitimised the takeover of private Palestinian land in the notorious Ulpana Hill settler "neighborhood". In both cases, his decision seems to have been grealy influenced by Attroney General Weinstein giving a warning that outright violation of Palestinian property rights could lead to Israeli generals and political leaders facing war crimes prosecution at the Hague.
 
Who`s afraid of Nakba Day?
Shaul Arieli- Ha`aretz - To the Palestinians in 1947, a state on only 45 percent of the land was unfair because they constituted a decisive majority of the population and owned 90 percent of its privately owned land. In the war which followed, the Palestinians became the main victims: 750,000 refugees were created, 11 mixed cities were emptied of their Arab populations and more than 400 villages and 4 million dunams (about 1 million acres) of land were lost to the Palestinians, (...) At present, we in Israel - like the Palestinians in 1948 - are holding an intransigent "it`s all mine" attitude, misreading the political map and the international mood.
 
Our selection of earlier articles:
 
Operetta in 5 Acts
Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom - The main thing is that the elections have been postponed. It is up to the partisans of peace and social justice to use the time gained to put together a real political force, ready for the test. After having peered into the face of near-certain electoral disaster, they must now get together and prepare themselves for the fight.
 
Education minister: TAU Nakba event `outrageous`
JPost staff - Tel Aviv University approved the students` May 14 Nakba commemoration ceremony. The notoriously nationalistic Education Minister Gideon Sa`ar urged TAU President Professor Joseph Klaftner to reconsider.
 
Israel facing major West Bank uprising over Palestinian hunger strike
Adrian Blomfield - The Telegraph - Israel has been warned that it faces a major uprising in the West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners taking part in one of the largest and most protracted hunger strikes ever staged in its jails were said to be close to death.
 
Lobby waging war on campus speech
Steven Zunes says UC punishing criticism of Israel - gm
 
Palestinian children work for a pittance in Israel�s settlements
Jillian Kestler-D`Amours - The Electronic Intifada - "�It�s tiring,� said 15-year-old Ibrahim, deep lines running across his forehead. �But there is no alternative.� Ibrahim has been working full-time for three years already." - id
 
Court prevents eviction of Palestinian family by JNF
Mairav Zonszein - +972 - "The JNF, operating through its subsidiary organization Himnutah and together with the rightwing organization ELAD, claimed the Ruweidi�s home was legally seized by the state." - id  
 
Four Christian Brothers Jailed By Israel For Prisoner Solidarity Activism
Asa Winstanley - The Electronic Intifada - "�I went to hug my son, and I said, no, you�re not taking this one, you have three already, leave this one!�" - id
 
Egyptian presidential candidates in first television debate
Abdel-Rahman Hussein - Guardian - "Moussa said relations with Israel must be reconfigured until a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital was created. Abul-Futoh was more scathing, labelling Israel a threat to Egypt with its 200 nuclear warheads." - id
Netanyahu, Barak, and Mofaz are delegitimizing Israel
Gideon Levy - Haaretz - Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Mofaz are telling their nation and the world: We are leaders in a country of dwarfs, its citizens are all boors and idiots, and we can sell them any lie. If we tell them day is night and spitting is rain, they�ll believe it.-rh
 
`Back-to-Back` Procedure: Patients at Checkpoints
Tamar Fleishman - The Palestine Chronicle - At the checkpoint, regardless of the urgency of the case, an ambulance from Jerusalem is sent for, it is then parked by the Palestinian one, the patient is shifted from one stretcher to the other, from one ambulance to the other, the blanket from the occupied territories is taken off his body and a blanket from Jerusalem takes its place, while soldiers and security guards scan his body.-rh
 
Action alert: Stop The Wall office raided by Israeli military
Stop the Wall - Action alert -It is no coincidence that the Israeli authorities have chosen this moment to escalate their repression against the Stop the Wall grassroots network of civil resistance against the Wall and the settlements, choosing to act on the same day that the Israeli High Court rejected the appeals of Palestinian hunger strikers Bilal Diab and Tha��ir Halahleh, imprisoned without charge and without trial, effectively condemning them to death.-rh
 
Supreme Court Decides to Evict Palestinians from Their Homes In Jerusalem
Regina Qumsieh - IMEMC - "Extremist settler organization, "Ateret Cohanim", has enabled 900 settlers to reside in the Old City of Jerusalem in addition to the 3,100 Jews living in the Jewish quarter." - id
 
`Ulpana to serve as unity government`s first test`
Moran Azulay - Ynet - "Controversy over impending eviction, razing of contested Beit El neighborhood to become new, extended Coalition`s first true obstacle." - id
 
Israeli forces raid Palestinian NGO�s office in Ramallah
Mya Guarnieri - +972 - "Israeli military stole 2 laptops, 3 hard drives and 10 memory cards containing files and photos as well as archive material relating to the work that the organisation does in opposition to Israel�s apartheid wall and the attack on Palestinian human rights that the wall and the settlement represent." - id
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Crazy Country
 
Yes, state lands they were! By all sorts of very creative interpretations of Ottoman law which the Ottoman Sultans themselves never thought of.

 
 
 
 
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