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17/10/2021
| | In Memeoriam Beate Keller Zilversmidt, 1942-2021
Adam Keller - a personal message on very deep mourning - and on
overcoming pain
As you may have noticed, during July and early August there had been
a complete cessation of articles hitherto posted by myself and by my
wife Beate Keller Zilversmidt on this website. Beate - my wife with
whom I spent thirty-five years of the happiest marriage imaginable
and with whom I was at least as much in love as on our first day,
was hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where she died on
the morning of Friday, August 6. Beate had waged a very long
struggle against cancer, won quite a few battles over the past two
decades, but it was cancer that had the final victory. I must admit
that in those weeks of hospitalization and of my wife`s final
struggle, and in the weeks of mourning that followed, I could simply
feel no interest in political events, struggles and demonstrations.
For some weeks, deep personal pain completely overwhelmed and
dominated my life, to the exclusion of everything else. [ak] | | | Conscientious objector: ‘I don’t want to wear a uniform that symbolizes violence and pain’
Oren Ziv - +972 Magazine - Shahar Perets, who was sentenced to prison
for refusing to join the Israeli army, talks about meeting Palestinians
for the first time, her visits to the West Bank, and how Israeli
society represses the occupation.[ak] | | | Protest tent in Tel Aviv`s Sarona compound: "Looking the Occupation in the eyes".
A protest tent calling on the general public of Israeli citizens to
face the realities of the Occupation will be set up in the Sarona
compound in Tel Aviv, at the corner of Kaplan and Leonardo da Vinci
streets, starting Wednesday at 14:00 noon and Friday at 16:00.
The tent, set up by citizens, women and men, not parties and
activists, not political pressure groups,
and not protest organizations, wishes to rattle the indifferent
Israelis, those who prefer to ignore, look the other way or bury
their heads in the sand, in the face of the horrors that occur daily
and hourly in the occupied Territories, where Palestinian shepherds
and farmers are persecuted on a daily basis With the help of the
army, they are displaced, their homes are destroyed, the water
sources for their flocks are looted, their orchards and vineyards
are uprooted or burned - and they, men, children, women and the
elderly remain forlorn in the fierce sun of the occupied
territories. [ak] | | | Settlements are War Crimes: Time to Hold South Africa’s World Zionist Organization Accountable
Iqbal Jassat - Palestine Chronicle - Michael Lynk, UN special
rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
(OPT), has made damning findings on Israel’s illegal settlements. In
his report on Friday to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), he made a
strong case for the settlements to be classified as war crimes.In his
argument, Lynk asserted that the settlements are a violation of the
absolute prohibition against “settler implantation” and insisted that
UN member states not ignore Israeli transgressions For Israel as an
occupying power to transfer its own population to the OPT, is not only
defiance of international laws, it directly prejudices Palestinians
who are confronted with brutalities at the hands of settlers including
ethnic cleansing. The injustices flowing from the implantation of
settlements are reprehensible, immoral and senseless. Yet despite
these obvious deviations of civilized values, Israel continues
regardless. (rh) | | | The world isn’t buying what Israel’s selling in the West Bank
Dan Perry - Times of Israel - n his famous thought experiment about
quantum mechanics, Erwin Schrödinger examined whether a cat can be
considered to be alive and dead at the same time. Israel’s West Bank
policy offers a modern variant that has in recent days hit the news.
When it suits Israel, the West Bank is part of the country. This is
the situation when Israel wants security control from the river to the
sea. Or when it wants Jews to be able to settle anywhere in the
historic Land of Israel. Or when it builds towns there essentially for
those Jews only. Or when it allows Israelis living in the same towns
to vote in Knesset elections (though Israelis living outside the
country cannot).(rh) | | | Report: Hezbollah commander, IRGC senior official killed in Israeli strikes
24NEWS - Ynetnews - Lebanese terror group confirms death of operative,
but does not specify circumstances; Iran yet to comment on killing of
Iranian official, with Al-Arabiya reporting he died in one of several
attacks in Syria this week.(rh) | | | Netanyahu: Israel will do all it can to counter Iran, even at expense of U.S. ties
Itamar Eichner,Yoav Zitun - Ynetnews - PM says confronting existential
threat posed by Tehran is most important issue; Gantz hits back at
remarks, saying differences of opinion with Israel`s greatest ally must
be resolved through direct dialogue and not damaging confrontational
comments.(rh) | | | Israeli Arabs fired for `political position` on day of general strike
Hassan Shaalan - Ynetnews - Employees of the Victory supermarket chain,
Israel Railways say they were dismissed for missing work on May 18, but
say the security situation, heavy police presence made it impossible for
them to leave their homes.(rh) | | | Lapid warns Poland ties ‘seriously’ harmed as Holocaust restitution law advances
TOI STAFF -Times o Israel - Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned Poland
on Friday that their actions were seriously harming ties with Israel
after a bill on Holocaust restitution advanced in the Polish Senate.
The Senate okayed a bill Friday that will place a 10-to-30-year cutoff
date on contesting past administrative decisions on restitution.
Critics of the law argue that it will effectively cut off the ability
of Jews to reclaim property that was seized before and during the
Holocaust. “The passage of the polish property law now in Warsaw will
seriously harm our relations with Poland. Poland knows very well what
is the correct and proper thing to do,” Lapid said in his latest
broadside in the escalating rift between the two countries.(rh)
| | | IDF: Palestinian hurling firebombs, rocks shot in West Bank; 2 others arrested
TOI STAFF - A Palestinian assailant who was throwing firebombs and
rocks at an Israeli car was shot in the West Bank on Saturday, the
army said.Two other suspects were arrested after a chase, the Israel
Defense Forces said. The military said the three Palestinians were
hurling Molotov cocktails and stones at an Israeli vehicle near the
settlement of Mevo Dotan. Soldiers moved to arrest them and thwart a
potential terror attack, opening fire in their direction and hitting
one suspect. His condition was not immediately known. (rh) | | | For previous articles since 2004 go to respective sections | |
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