[Centraal] Conflict Palestina & Israel #55

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Op maandag 7 november 2005 05:20 schreef Lyrebird het volgende:
Kan iemand mij trouwens uitleggen waarom er zwangere vrouwen en kinderen in de Gazastrook wonen? Het toekomstperspectief in de Gazastrook voor een kind lijkt me niet je van het. Er zijn Nederlanders die bewust geen kinderen nemen, omdat ze denken dat het kind geen goede toekomst wacht. Maar we hebben het hier over de GAZASTROOK! Dat is andere peperkoek.

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Kerkleider beschuldigt Israel van Diefstal

Church leader accuses Israel of theft

The moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly has accused the Jewish state of "theft."

The Right Rev. David Lacy, said his visit to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, now separated by a concrete barrier, had left him "gobsmacked," the Scotsman reported.

"I was very much in sympathy with why the Israelis built a wall here, and still am to a certain extent," he said. "But when you actually see where it is, you see that it's not for security, it's for making political statements. It's theft of land and I don't know how you can justify it on the grounds of anti-terrorism."

Science Daily
 

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Op dinsdag 15 november 2005 07:27 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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En terecht, het is pure roof van grond. Voor mij bouwen ze een muur totaan de hemel rondom 'het beloofde land', zolang ze het maar binnen hun eigen grenzen doen. Die van vóór 1967 welteverstaan.

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Zesde dodelijke slachtoffer aanslag Hadera

Het dodental van de zelfmoordaanslag in de Israëlische kustplaats Hadera is opgelopen tot zes. Een 66-jarige vrouw stierf aan haar verwondingen afgelopen zondag. Meer dan 30 mensen raakten bij de aanslag in oktober gewond.

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GRENS GAZA EN EGYPTE MAG OPEN

Onder zware Amerikaanse druk en na marathon-onderhandelingen hebben Israël en de Palestijnse Autoriteit vandaag een akkoord bereikt over de opening van de grens tussen de Gazastrook en Egypte.
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Op dinsdag 15 november 2005 14:44 schreef Roi het volgende:

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Je laat wat weg .

Die man heeft duidelijk geen verstand van wat hij zegt, die muur heeft al zoveel terrorisme tegengehouden. Logisch dat ze nu ook zoiets willen in Tjetjenië.

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Not guilty. The Israeli captain who put 17 bullets into a Palestinian schoolgirl

· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice

An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.

The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago.

The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was "scared to death", made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died.

After the verdict, Iman's father, Samir al-Hams, said the army never intended to hold the soldier accountable.

"They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times," he said. "This was the cold-blooded murder of a girl. The soldier murdered her once and the court has murdered her again.

bron: The Guardian
 

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English football powerhouse to unveil 5 soccer schools across Israel in bid to bring Jewish, Arab communities closer together
Reuters

Arsenal will start next week with the twin aims of building momentum in the Champions League and building bridges between young Jews and Arabs in Israel.

While the spotlight will be on their Group B game against Thun in Switzerland, the north London club will officially unveil five soccer schools across Israel as part of a wider 'Arsenal in the Community' program.

Towns and cities in a dozen countries, ranging from Soweto in South Africa to the eastern Ukraine area still reeling from the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, have already benefited from the initiative.

Alan Sefton, head of the program, told Reuters the schools' launch on Monday would follow an earlier move to help reconciliation in northern Israel.

Drawing on the Arsenal brand and the worldwide popularity of the Premier League, Sefton said: "We feel we can do a lot of good using that opportunity in these places.

"We can bring people together and do good. It might be social good, like in Soweto, making places better to live in, creating role models and creating trainers - or in other places it might be bringing people together in the Arab-Jewish world."

Arsenal's involvement in Israel began at the request of the Misgav regional council in a previously untroubled area of Galilee which was hit by the intifada five years ago.

Israeli security forces shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs in October 2000 when they tried to quell demonstrations in the north in support of a Palestinian uprising that had grown violent.

In the aftermath, football has proved to be a way of reaching out to the Jewish and Arab communities.

"There were riots and people were a bit shocked it could happen in northern Israel -- this wasn't the West Bank," Sefton said.

"There were two ways the authorities could approach it -- either they could re-trench and everyone would go back into their own shell or we could try and improve the community relations.

Training trainers

"We did a program that was very successful," said Sefton, whose club's task was to pass on coaching skills by 'training the trainers'.

It was then expanded to include other Jewish and Arab towns and villages, as part of a summertime "Football for Peace (F4P)" program led by sports lecturers from Brighton University in southern England.

The F4P camp in July of this year brought together more than 200 coaches, 50 of them from Europe, and 1,000 children aged 10 to 14, drawn from 18 Arab and Jewish communities in Galilee.

Teams in the event, which is backed by the British Council, are mixed and each one has a European, Arab and Jewish coach.

Arsenal are now trying to take that further by encouraging more frequent training camps, mixing coaching and competitions for the participants.

"We believe football opens up people of different classes, social groups, races and nationalities," said Sefton, whose has a long-term vision for the club's programs.

"We'd like to see a thriving football community playing under the Arsenal banner with everyone, in a way, playing together. And in the Misgav area, it is working.

"The mayor of the Misgav has told us it is probably the only scheme where Jews and Arabs mix on equal terms and come together on a regular basis."

That will also be the philosophy of the soccer schools, a scheme involving Arsenal-trained coaches which is being put together by Amnon Raz, head of Israel's coaches' association.

Mixed team

Though the official launch is on Monday, Raz said the schools had been operating since the start of the season.

"There has been full cooperation and tremendous interest from the local authorities, both Jewish and Arab," Raz told Reuters. "They have shown great interest."

Players who stand out will be picked for a mixed Arab and Jewish team for next year's edition of the annual Arsenal International Soccer Festival in August in Surrey, south of London.

The festival brings together youth teams from around the world for matches and coaching under an Arsenal umbrella.

Israel is not the only Middle East country attracting the club's interest and Sefton said it was "totally irrelevant" that he and several Arsenal directors were Jewish.

The club has a soccer school in Egypt and is having talks with parties in Jordan and Dubai, home to the club's main sponsors Emirates airline, while an Iraqi team played at last year's Arsenal festival.

Closer to home, Arsenal organize similar bridge-building projects in London, with primary schools from Jewish and Muslim areas presenting their religious festivals to each other and then playing football together.

"That's one of the reasons why we're involved in this," Sefton said of the Israel initiative.

"Football can divide -- but we don't want it to focus on divisions and tribalism. We focus on things that can bring people together. Religion can and does divide -- but there are also many common threads in religion.

"We think there's more common interest in those who love football than the reverse."

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Op woensdag 16 november 2005 10:57 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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Nou prima toch? Zoals ik schreef, voor mijn part bouwen ze hun muur totaan de hemel, zolang ze het maar op hun eigen grondgebied doen.

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Secret British document accuses Israel

FO paper says international laws are being violated and peace jeopardised
Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Friday November 25, 2005
The Guardian

A confidential Foreign Office document accuses Israel of rushing to annex the Arab area of Jerusalem, using illegal Jewish settlement construction and the vast West Bank barrier, in a move to prevent it becoming a Palestinian capital.
In an unusually frank insight into British assessments of Israeli intentions, the document says that Ariel Sharon's government is jeopardising the prospect of a peace agreement by trying to put the future of Arab East Jerusalem beyond negotiation and risks driving Palestinians living in the city into radical groups. The document, obtained by the Guardian, was presented to an EU council of ministers meeting chaired by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Monday with recommendations to counter the Israeli policy, including recognition of Palestinian political activities in East Jerusalem.

But the council put the issue on hold until next month under pressure from Italy, according to sources, which Israel considers its most reliable EU ally.

Israel has described a recommendation for moving EU meetings with the Palestinian Authority from Ramallah to East Jerusalem in recognition of the Arab claim as "negative occurrence". It claims the eastern part of Jerusalem it occupied in the 1967 war is part of its "indivisible capital". Almost all governments maintain embassies in Tel Aviv because they do not recognise the Israeli claim.

The document, drawn up by the British consulate in East Jerusalem as part of the UK's presidency of the EU, says Israeli policies are designed to prevent Jerusalem from becoming a Palestinian capital, particularly settlement expansion in and around the city. It says Mr Sharon's plan to link Jerusalem with the large Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank by building thousands of new homes "threatens to complete the encircling of the city by Jewish settlements, dividing the West Bank into two separate geographical areas".

It adds: "Israeli activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap (peace plan) obligations and international law."

The Foreign Office also concludes that the vast concrete barrier, which Israel asserts is a security measure, is being used to expropriate Arab land in and around the city. "This de facto annexation of Palestinian land will be irreversible without very large-scale forced evacuations of settlers and the re-routing of the barrier."

The document says stringent Israeli controls on the movement of Palestinians in and out of the city are an attempt to restrict Arab population growth. "When the barrier is completed, Israel will control all access to East Jerusalem, cutting off its Palestinian satellite cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, and the West Bank beyond. This will have serious ... consequences for the Palestinians," it says.

"Israel's main motivation is almost certainly demographic ... the Jerusalem master plan has an explicit goal to keep the proportion of Palestinian Jerusalemites at no more than 30% of the total." All of this, the document says, greatly reduces the prospects of a two-state solution because a core demand of the Palestinians is for sovereignty over the east of the city.

"Palestinians are deeply alarmed about East Jerusalem," the document says. "They fear that Israel will 'get away with it', under the cover of disengagement. Israeli measures also risk radicalising the hitherto relatively quiescent Palestinian population of East Jerusalem."

The Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, Mark Regev, said: "Israel believes that Jerusalem should remain the united capital of Israel. At the same time Israel has committed itself that Jerusalem is one of those final status issues."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1650426,00.html

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Op zondag 4 december 2005 13:52 schreef Hallulama het volgende:

Mooi wat hier gebeurt, zou Kadima een nieuw hoofdstuk betekenen?

Ik hoop het van harte.

Laten we beide heren veel succes toewensen, en hopen dat ze nog een poosje bij ons blijven, immers, leeftijden van 77 (Sharon) en 82 (Peres) jaar zijn niet mis natuurlijk.

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Sharon: Israel to keep Jordan Valley under any deal

TEL AVIV, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday Israel intended to keep control of the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, signalling its insistence on retaining settlements there under any future peace deal.

Speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv, Sharon called the Jordan Valley, where Israel has built a string of small settlements, part of the Jewish state's "security zone". Palestinians say a continued Israeli presence there would deny them a viable state.

Sharon has made clear following a Gaza withdrawal in September that Israel plans to keep large West Bank settlement blocs, but has said that some isolated enclaves would have to be removed under any future peace agreement.

Reuters

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Op zondag 4 december 2005 14:27 schreef Hallulama het volgende:
People learn along the way, het is fantastisch.

Nou hopen dat die Palestijnen zichzelf ook een beetje kunnen beheersen, en elkaar tot rust manen.

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Op maandag 5 december 2005 12:19 schreef Roi het volgende:
Ja hoor weer hebben ze een aanslag gepleegt ! Ze hebben echt niks gedaan om het terrorisme te stoppen nadat Israel ze Gaza heeft teruggegeven, nee die palestijnen laten wel zien hoe graag ze vreden willen!

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Op maandag 5 december 2005 09:49 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

Een nieuw hoofdstuk.. suuuure.

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Op maandag 5 december 2005 21:00 schreef Hallulama het volgende:

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Heuh, zijn er niet minder aanslagen dan een tijdje geleden?

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Op maandag 5 december 2005 12:19 schreef Roi het volgende:
Ja hoor weer hebben ze een aanslag gepleegt ! Ze hebben echt niks gedaan om het terrorisme te stoppen nadat Israel ze Gaza heeft teruggegeven, nee die palestijnen laten wel zien hoe graag ze vreden willen!


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Israël bereidt grote militaire operaties voor
NETANYA - De Israëlische strijdkrachten bereiden nieuwe en harde militaire operaties voor tegen militante Palestijnen. Volgens Israëlische media gaat het onder meer om gerichte aanslagen op prominente aanhangers van organisaties zoals de Islamitische Jihad, het verwoesten van huizen van Palestijnse zelfmoordenaars en verdere inperkingen van de bewegingsvrijheid van Palestijnen.


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Een eerste grootschalige militaire operatie staat volgens Israëlische media op stapel in de Gazastrook, maar ook op de Westoever gaan er acties komen. Militaire bronnen zeiden tegen het dagblad Haaretz dat de operaties „enkele weken en mogelijk zelfs een maand” gaan duren. Het verwoesten van huizen was overigens eerder juist stilgelegd na aanhoudende kritiek van onder meer mensenrechtengroepen.

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Israeli stabbed to death near Jerusalem

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli to death at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

The Israeli was stabbed in the back of his head at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.

The attacker came to the checkpoint with a knife and inflicted critical wounds on his victim, who died of his wounds a short time later. A military doctor established the Israeli's death at the murder scene.

The Palestinian was taken into custody and was to be interrogated by Jerusalem police.

The attack came against the backdrop of mounting violence following a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed five Israelis outside a shopping mall on Monday.

Since the bombing, Israel has killed three Palestinian militants in air strikes in the Gaza Strip, drawing vows of revenge.

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Op maandag 14 november 2005 19:49 schreef zakjapannertje het volgende:
de Palestijnse bevolkingsaanwasin de bezette gebieden zijn trouwens niet zo hoog als werd gedacht volgens recent onderzoek, ligt meer bij dat van de israelische

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Op woensdag 16 november 2005 11:00 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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Welkom in Is:rael

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Iman al-Hams

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Op maandag 5 december 2005 16:46 schreef J_CDA het volgende:
Een groot deel van de Palestijnen blijven achterlijk onderontwikkeld kutvolk. Niet voor niks wil geen enkel Arabisch land Palestijnen opvangen, aangezien deze alleen maar voor problemen zorgen.

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Door een raketaanval van de Israëlische luchtmacht op de Gazastrook zijn vanmiddag twee Palestijnse leden van de Al Aqsa Martelarenbrigade om het leven gekomen. De slachtoffers bevonden zich in een bestookt pand in Jabalia. De Israeli's beweren dat in het huis aanvallen op de joodse staat werden voorbereid. Een derde ongelukkige raakte zo ernstig gewond dat hij klinisch dood is. Daarnaast is een vierjarig meisje in kritieke toestand opgenomen.