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Gush Shalom Mourns the death of 19 people
Anonym - 18.06.2002 23:01
Gush Shalom Mourns the death of 19 people in the suicide attack today, in Jerusalem.
19 more souls are lost in the vicious circle of blood and violence.
Operation "defense wall" is proven to be useless.
Assassinations, demolitions, siege and strangulation of the Palestinian people,
All just increase the level of hate and anger - just like drinking sea water.
Having exhausted all these bloody, futile quack medicine, is it not time to choose the alternative path?
The path of peace and reconciliation.
Peace based on Justice, understanding and international law, rather than "peace" based on brute force.
Nineteen new victims fell on the altar of the occupation Only the end of the occupation will dry up suicide bombings
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"Yet another nineteen innocent victims have today fallen on the vain altar of the ongoing occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" says Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc. "The occupation regime, which has lasted thirty-five years - nearly two thirds of Israel´ total history - is the hothouse of
despair and hatred, from which suicide bombers originate. The ongoing denial of basic rights to a population of three and a half million drives some of the occupied population to a despicable means of responding - the random killing of Israeli civilians - which deserves all condemnation and which plays directly into the hands of Sharon and the extreme right. Despicable as they are, there can be no military means of ending the suicide bombings, no way forward by main force: neither bombings from the air nor incursions and invasions on the ground. "Operation Defensive Shield" in April failed to put an end to the suicide bombings, and the same will prove true of the even more extensive and brutal operations envisioned in the IDF contingency plans and fervently advocated by the settlers and the extreme right. The "Separation Fence", recently proposed as a cure-all by some circles, will prove no real solution. The retaliatory and punitive raids by the army, of which some more are expected tonight, do manage to intercept some potential suicide bombers - but the very same raids and incursions, by demonstrating the brutality of the occupation, also increase on the Palestinian side the motivation for reribution and help the recruitment of new suicide bombers.
Only an end to the occupation by political means, allowing a fair expression of the basic Palestinian aspirations, can dry up the suicide bombing phenomenon at its source and provide new hope to the desperate young
Palestinians from whose ranks the bombers are recruited.
For further details:
Adam Keller, Gush Shalom spokesperson, +972 (0)3-5565804 or +972 (0)56-709603
 Website: http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html
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| supplements | | | some supplements were deleted from this article, see policy | | COEXISTENCE UPDATE | The Abraham Fund - 18.06.2002 23:07
An E-bulletin on Jewish-Arab Coexistence in Israel and the
Activities of The Abraham Fund
June 18, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE:
ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLS FOR ISRAELI ARAB EQUALITY
TAF AWARDS $1 MILLION IN GRANTS
BREAKFAST FOCUSES ON NEW INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE "SHARED CITIZENSHIP"
ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLS FOR ISRAELI ARAB EQUALITY
Speaking at a recent meeting of The Abraham Fund´s Israel Public Council advisory group, Israel´s Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein said that "Israeli Arabs are entitled to full rights as citizens. Those who want to maintain Israel as a Jewish and democratic state must guarantee civic
equality for Israel´s Arabs."
The Public Council also adopted a resolution calling on the government to take a more active role in promoting Jewish-Arab coexistence. As reported in leading Israeli newspapers, the Public Council urged the government to
assign a cabinet minister with the responsibility for promoting coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Israel. The Council also urged the government to disburse the sums allocated in this year´s budget from the four-year NIS 4
billion that both the Sharon and Barak governments assigned to improving conditions in the Arab sector. (The resolution can be viewed on The Abraham Fund Web site by clicking here.)
In his remarks, Attorney General Rubenstein also discussed the efforts his office is making to fight inequality and racism, particularly by providing assistance to Arab Israelis facing discrimination in such areas as housing,
education, health care and employment.
TAF AWARDS $1 MILLION IN GRANTS
The Abraham Fund awarded $1 million in grants to 62 organizations and projects advancing Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel at a festive ceremony at Kfar Hamaccabia, Israel on May 27.
Abraham Fund Chairman Alan B. Slifka told the audience that The Abraham Fund was "accelerating its advocacy efforts this year to increase Arabic studies in Israel´s school system, lobby the government to do more and to have an
impact on public opinion."
The Grants Awards Ceremony celebrated projects that have been operating in the current 2001-2002 grant-year. For the first time two regional projects initiated by The Abraham Fund received major grants totaling $176,000:
· "The Jaffa Kindergarten Program", a joint program of The Abraham Fund and the Arab-Jewish Center in Jaffa is now operating in 12 kindergartens -- four pairs of Jewish and Arab kindergartens and four integrated kindergartens.
· "The Carmiel/Bet Hakerem Valley Umbrella for Coexistence Educational Initiatives" advances community programs for coexistence between the Jewish city of Carmiel and the Arab towns, Baane, Deir Al Asad, Majd Al-Krum and Nahef.
BREAKFAST FOCUSES ON NEW INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE "SHARED CITIZENSHIP"
A new Abraham Fund initiative called the "Shared Citizenship and Public Policy Project" was the topic of the June 13 Conversations on Coexistence breakfast in New York. The breakfast featured Mike Prashker, founder and
executive director of Merchavim, an organization that promotes the concept of shared citizenship and which is partnering with TAF on the program.
The project will bring together a culturally diverse group of professionals and academics in six key policy areas -- education, public health, employment, housing, welfare and transportation -- with the goal of developing consensual public policy recommendations. These recommendations
will then form the basis for a national advocacy campaign. Merchavim will be responsible for building the consensual public policy platform while TAF will drive the effort forward through a broad-based awareness campaign.
"Fairness is an under-exploited concept," according to Prashker, who says the initiative is aimed at the "legitimization of equality."
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| | Demoniseringsalert! | 19.06.2002 02:12
Martelaar? 19.06.2002 00:37
En weer wordt een zelfmoordenaar, ditmaal met een offer van 19 jonge onschuldige joodse scholieren, met open armen door Allah ontvangen. ALLAH AL AKBAR! Door de plee ermee.
paparazza
| | Juist geen martelaars | Ada - 19.06.2002 10:14
Dear paparazza,
If you would have read this text more carefully, you could have easily seen that the Gosh Shalom is mourning the death of those people, and that they are condemning both: the occupation and the suicide bombing.
If you don´t even bother to give the Israeli Peace movement enough attention to read properly, there is certainly little hope left.
| | Dear Ada. | Paparazza - 19.06.2002 11:23
Dear Ada,
I have read the text as carefully as possible but that doesn´t make my anger less understandable. I feel sympathy for the way in which you and your fellow members are trying to resolve the tensions and uneasyness that exists between Israeli´s and Palestinians. Nevertheless, I detest suicide bombers. They seek those that are innocent and unaware of the fact that their lives will soon be over. But at the same time I pity them, because they probably are conditioned to do so, which makes them victims too. Young lives are lost and for what? Coexistence sounds great but will never be accomplished. Not as long as Muslim- and Jewish extremists have their say.
| | Suicide Bombers | 19.06.2002 12:08
I have more respect for them than for the cowards that do their "duty" inside the racist en murdereous iSSraeli Army.
The kill onmasse inocent people, deprive whole villages from their basic needs etc.
They are realy the filth of the earth in my humble opinion.
I like the refusenicks.
Down with zionism!
| | Palestina will be victorious! | 19.06.2002 13:04
Israelis rush to be naturalized Germans, fearing Intifada victory
by xenoi • Wednesday June19 , 2002 at03 : 16AM
Israeli rush for German passports is linked to the worsening Mideast crisis, as many Jews seek to have reassurances that they could leave the Zionist state, should the Palestinian conflict escalate.
Berlin, June15 , IRNA -- The number of Israelis, applying for a German passport, has risen steadily since the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada back in September 2000 the online site of the weekly Spiegel reported Saturday.
According to the German Embassy in Tel Aviv, some 498 Israelis have requested to become naturalized Germans last January and February which is twice as much as over the same corresponding period in recent
years.
In 2000 , the embassy had only 1253passport applications which went up to 1751requests a year later.
Diplomats believe the new Israeli rush for German passports is linked to the worsening Mideast crisis, as many Jews seek to have reassurances that they could leave the Zionist state, should the Palestinian conflict escalate.
Article 16 of the German Constitution guarantees those persecuted by the Nazi regime as well as their descendants the life-long right for re-naturalization in Germany.
| | reacties verplaatst | redactie - 20.06.2002 14:34
Momenteel gebruiken enkele personen artikelen op Indymedia NL voor in herhaling vallende discussies en scheldpartijen, met name over het onderwerp Israel/Palestina. Vaak hebben deze polemieken niets meer te maken met het open nieuwslijn artikel waaronder zij gevoerd worden. Daarom heeft de redactie besloten deze reacties te verplaatsen naar een andere pagina (  http://www.indymedia.nl/2002/06/4791.shtml ) om ruimte te maken voor constructieve reacties.
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