{"article":{"id":221409,"heading":"NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- PALESTINE FOCUS","author":"NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War","created":"2008-10-26 13:41:42","modified":"2008-10-26 13:41:42","last_modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:41:42","article":"
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NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War<\/span>
<\/div>NYCLAW<\/span> Antiwar<\/span> Digest -- <\/span><\/span>Palestine Focus\r\nOctober 25, 2008<\/b>
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POGROMS, ETHNIC CLEANSING & APARTHEID<\/u><\/span><\/b>
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Bitter harvest<\/b><\/u>
The olive harvest is in full swing\r\nat the moment; so too are the settlers' clubs and the soldiers' batons,\r\nas they do their level best to impede the farmers' attempts to harvest\r\ntheir meagre crops the length and breadth of the Occupied Territories.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/oct\/23\/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast

Settlers invade Nablus<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"Our hold on Joseph's Tomb strengthens our hold on the whole country.\"
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/24\/world\/middleeast\/24tomb.html?ref=world
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Blind woman sent to jail for harboring Palestinian<\/b><\/u>
A\r\nsingle mother of a 4-year old child was handed a prison sentence on\r\nWednesday after the Magistrates' Court in Rehovot found her to be unfit\r\nfor community service.
http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3611727,00.html

Palestinian death toll in Second Intifada<\/b><\/u>
\r\nIsraeli forces have killed 5,526 Palestinians over the past eight years\r\nincluding 1,010 children under 18 and 340 women and girls.
http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/en\/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32357
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Soldiers kill with impunity<\/b><\/u>
'The shocking truth is that Israeli soldiers kill civilians in Gaza with near-total impunity, week in week out'.
http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/news_details.asp?NewsID=17897
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Remembering Massacre at Beit Hanoun<\/b><\/u>
I am\r\nencouraged, but not satisfied by what Archbishop Desmond Tutu said\r\nafter his investigative visit to Gaza. . . . The following is the\r\ntestimony I wrote two days after I witnessed the massacre's aftermath.
\r\nhttp:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article9904.shtml

Israel threatens new war on Lebanon<\/b><\/u>
\"We\r\nwill wield disproportionate power against every village from which\r\nshots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1026539.html

Palestinian prisoners isolated for dozens of years<\/b><\/u>
Dozens\r\nof Palestinian prisoners held in isolation or in solitary confinement\r\nin Israeli prisons have developed sever mental disorders.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3607996,00.html

U.S. supports Jordanian torture<\/b><\/u>
[P]risoners in the small Arab\r\nmonarchy, whose ruler, King Abdullah II, is strongly allied with the\r\nUnited States, are regularly subjected to torture and that their\r\nabusers are rarely punished. . . . Last year, the U.S. provided Jordan\r\nwith $255.3 million, mostly in military aid.
http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-jordan9-2008oct09,0,1438510.story
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Silence towards Israel's racial discrimination unacceptable  <\/b><\/u>
While the Law of Return is generous towards immigration of Jews from\r\naround the world, it discriminates against Palestinians who were\r\nactually born on the land and their descendants.
http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article9902.shtml

The Palestinian left and the right of return<\/b><\/u>
\r\nThe Palestinian cause is the right of return for all refugees and nothing less.
http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/znet\/viewArticle\/19040



PALESTINIAN ECONOMY & WORKERS<\/b><\/u>
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Gaza's suffocating siege<\/b><\/u>
As the Gaza Strip enters\r\nits fifth month of \"calm\" with the Israelis, 80 percent of the\r\npopulation lives below the line of poverty.
http:\/\/www.freegaza.ps\/english\/index.php?scid=100&id=504&extra=news&type=40
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Gaza still stunted<\/b><\/u>
The ceasefire agreed between\r\nIsrael and Hamas on 19 June this year has made precious little\r\ndifference to the stunted economy of the Gaza Strip.
http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article9886.shtml
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West Bank hit hard by Israeli restrictions<\/b><\/u>
The\r\nWest Bank's economy is suffering from precarious lack of investment,\r\nlargely because of Israeli restrictions on movement and despite\r\nincreased international aid, the World Bank said on Thurday.
\r\nhttp:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jMdUTIbI96rzqEJSrKb1v7usu5dw

Palestinian workers exploited at W. Bank settlement factories<\/b><\/u>
\r\nAmongst the companies whose labor practices were criticized in the Kav\r\nLaOved report was Royalnight [whose] sheet sets, bed skirts, quilted\r\nblankets, and decorated pillows are exported to and marketed in the\r\nUnited States and Europe.
\r\nhttp:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article9871.shtml

Arab women textile workers in the Galilee, Israel: No bread and no roses<\/b><\/u>
\r\nIn the past decade, more than 30,000 textile workers lost their jobs in\r\nthe Israeli textile industry, and most of them are Arab women.
\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/laborers-voice.org\/files\/081007_textile.pdf



PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT<\/b><\/u>
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PA minister does CIA bidding<\/b><\/u>
\"You are not here to\r\nconfront Israel, the conflict of Israel has until now led nowhere. You\r\nmust show the Israelis that you can do the job.\"
http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/oct\/24\/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
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Behind Hamas' election<\/b><\/u>
The electoral victory of\r\nHamas in the Palestinian legislative elections held at the beginning of\r\n2006, far from de-railing a viable process of diplomatic negotiations,\r\ninstead signaled a widespread Palestinian rejection of those leaders\r\nwho would allow policies of occupation, dispossession and\r\nextra-judicial killings to be packaged in a farcical 'peace process'.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/znet\/viewArticle\/19033

U.S. uses same equipment at home and Gaza<\/b><\/u>
The\r\nAmericans had used some of the equipment to thwart smuggling across the\r\nMexican border, and recently transferred it to the Egyptian army to\r\nstrengthen its hold on the Philadelphi Route separating Egypt from the\r\nStrip.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1030246.html

Palestinian police help Israelis destroy tunnel in Hebron<\/b><\/u>
Palestinian\r\npolice discovered a tunnel running under a shop in the Occupied West\r\nBank city of Hebron on Tuesday that was subsequently dynamited by\r\nIsraeli sappers.
\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=96838

Teachers strike: partisan stab at Hamas or fight for rights?<\/b><\/u>
\r\nNonpartisan\r\ncritics of the strike, including NGOs working in human rights, say that\r\nit is political in nature and should not be used to pit one party\r\nagainst another at the expense of the students
http:\/\/english.pnn.ps\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3754&Itemid=1
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Fatah: Eject traitors from your ranks<\/b><\/u>
[T]he Fatah\r\norganization, nearly in its entirety, been reticent and done next to\r\nnothing to punish, expose or even rebuke these men who have committed\r\nwhat amounts to be national apostasy.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.uruknet.info\/?p=m47784&hd=&size=1&l=e



ZIONISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM ABROAD<\/b><\/u>
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International Jewish network condemns Israel and Zionism<\/b><\/u>
IJAN\r\ndistinguishes itself from Jewish and other peace groups that do not\r\nreject Zionism or the continuation of an exclusionary Jewish State.
http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article9887.shtml

UK trade unionists denounce supporters of Israel's attempt to suppress free speech<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"Opposition\r\nto this motion can be interpreted as little else than a determination\r\nto support an illegal occupation, and to prevent any debate or\r\ndiscussion of Israeli policy in the occupied territories, or of\r\nIsrael's human rights record in those territories.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.pacbi.org\/boycott_news_more.php?id=820_0_1_0_C

Nov. 7 NYC Awda Protest v. Gaza Siege<\/b><\/u>
In\r\nfront of the Egyptian Consulate, E59th st. and 2nd ave. 3-5pm. Followed\r\nby a march to the Egyptian Mission to the UN and to the Zionist\r\nConsulate 5-7pm.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.al-awdany.org\/

Israel hires PR firm on 60th birthday for a political facelift<\/b><\/u>
\"Our research shows that Israel's brand is essentially the conflict.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/oct\/11\/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast
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Guardian capitulates to Islamophobic demands<\/b><\/u>
[T]he\r\nGuardian last week dismissed an Iranian contributor after a group of\r\npro-war, Islamophobic Neocons accused her of anti-Semitism.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2008\/10\/guardian-held-hostage-by-islamophobic-pressure-group\/

\r\nCanadian media muzzles criticism of Israel<\/b><\/u>
\r\nCanWest's attack must also be seen in the context of the larger\r\ncampaign to restrict free public debate on Palestine and Israel in\r\nCanada.
http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article9879.shtml
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AIPAC targets US workers<\/b><\/u>
AIPAC has a history of directing US trade policy against the interests of American producers and workers.
http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2008\/09\/from-irgun-to-aipac-israel-lobbys-us-treasury-follies-hurt\/
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Susan Sarandon, what will tip your conscience?<\/b><\/u>
Only one word can describe Sarandon's conduct: hypocrisy.
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