Malkit Shoshan and Eitan Bronstein, 6 February 2006

The Jewish state uses Jerusalem to define itself in the ever expanding
city. All buildings, including new ones, have to be made of stone in
order to show the eternal Jewish presence, in this process Jerusalem’s
Palestinian past is being appropriated. Malkit Shoshan, director of
FAST (the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory), and Eitan
Bronstein, director of Zochrot, examine the ways in which planning is
being used to create this fantasy heritage for Israel, at the expense
of Palestinian culture. The village of Lifta, which lies just outside
Jerusalem, has been abandoned since the Israeli army drove out the
last of its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4457.shtml


SECOND ATTACK IN 24 HOURS: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES TWO PALESTINIANS IN
GAZA 
PCHR, 6 February 2006

On Sunday evening, 5 February 2006, Israeli Occupation Forces
extra-judicially executed two members of the al-Quds Brigades, the
military wing of Islamic Jihad, in Gaza City. This attack came less
than 24 hours after a similar attack, also in Gaza City, which left 3
members of the Fatah movement dead. This escalation in violence
represents a confirmation of the Israeli official statement vowing to
continue to search for and target activists of Palestinian factions.
on Sunday, 5 February 2006, IOF aircrafts launched two missiles at two
civilian cars that were traveling near the Doula building in the
densely populated al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza
City.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4461.shtml


ISRAEL AIR ATTACK IN GAZA KILLS THREE PALESTINIANS 
PCHR, 5 February
2006

On Sunday morning, 5 February 2006, Israeli forces extra-judicially
executed three members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military
wing of the Fatah movement. Israeli aircrafts attacked a car, in which
two of the victims were traveling towards the hospital. They were
evacuating a person who had been wounded, when Israeli aircrafts
attacked a sports club in the densely populated Tal al-Hawa
neighborhood in the south of Gaza City. The club was totally destroyed
and one of its members, 30-year-old Hani Tal'at al-Qayed, was
seriously wounded. When two members of the club offered to help and
evacuate Qayed, their car was hit by a missile launched from an
Israeli aircraft. The three men were immediately killed.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4456.shtml


THE THIRD INTIFADA 
Sam Bahour, 4 February 2006

Welcome to the third Palestinian intifada. The first was with stones,
the second a mix between non-violent and more violent means, and this
one via a ballot box. With Hamas' landslide victory in the Palestinian
elections breaking years of political stagnation, we are witnessing,
right before our eyes, a chapter of history being made. In an attempt
to make sense of the rapidly moving situation following the elections,
I pose the following for consideration. Three ironies, three potential
failures and three challenges.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4455.shtml


A PARLIAMENT OF PRISONERS
Toufic Haddad, 4 February 2006

Most attention surrounding the 25 January 2006 election has focused
upon the sweeping victory of Hamas at the polls, and with good reason.
But there are other aspects to this year's election that will also
leave permanent impressions upon the future of Palestinian national
activity. Among the 132 Palestinians who won seats in the Legislative
Council, 15 of them are prisoners. 14 are imprisoned in Israeli jails,
and one sits in a Palestinian administered jail in Jericho, with CIA
and British Intelligence oversight. 11 of them are affiliated with
Hamas, 3 with Fateh, and one with the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4454.shtml


AID CUTS WILL HIT PALESTINIANS 
Christian Aid, 3 February 2006

The Middle East Quartet said on Monday that a new Hamas-led government
must commit to non-violence, recognise Israel and accept current peace
agreements, or it could lose the financial support it receives from
the international community. Christian Aid is deeply concerned about
the potentially crippling effect on Palestinian household economies if
this aid was cut. Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories
is the main cause of Palestinian poverty. While aid is a necessary
lifeline for the Palestinians, it can only address the symptoms of the
occupation rather than bring about a lasting solution to poverty.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4458.shtml


POLITICS, LANGUAGE AND THE PALESTINIANS 
Saree Makdisi, 3 February 2006

After Hamas' election victory, the organization's exiled leader Khaled
Meshal wrote an article that was printed in several western
newspapers. EI contributor Saree Makdisi says "what was refreshing
about Meshal’s piece was his use of a defiant language of struggle—one
appropriate to their desperate circumstances—rather than the
meaningless, empty, bankrupt language all but handed to current and
previous Palestinian leaders by a team of American and Israeli
script-writers." Makdisi writes that whether one disagrees with Hamas
or not, the article reminds us of the importance of redefining the
Palestinian struggle and the language used to shape it.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4452.shtml


MUNICH, OR MAKING BAKLAVA
Joseph Massad, 3 February 2006

"The best baklava is made by the Arabs in Jaffa," insists the Mossad
case officer to his chief agent in charge of assassinating those
Palestinians Israel claims planned the Munich operation of 1972.
Besides being excellent baklava-makers, we learn little else in Steven
Spielberg’s film "Munich" about Jaffa’s Palestinians, the majority of
whom were pushed into the sea by Zionist forces in May 1948. Columbia
University professor and EI contributor Joseph Massad examines
Spielberg's film and finds that it continues a tradition started by
Otto Preminger's 1960 film "Exodus," and ultimately serves to justify
rather than question Israeli terrorism and violence.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4449.shtml


WEEKLY REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
PCHR, 3 February 2006

This week, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians, including a
mentally-handicapped child. At least 13 Palestinian civilians,
including a child were wounded. Israeli forces conducted 27 incursions
into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Israeli forces raided
Palestinian homes and 53 civilians, including six children were
arrested. Israeli forces transformed six Palestinian homes into
military outpost. Israel continues to impose a total siege on the
occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli forces have imposed severe
restrictions on movement. Despite international criticism, Israel
continues to construct the Apartheid Wall. Israeli forces razed land
in Hebron. Israeli settlers continue attacks on Palestinian civilians
and property. Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes in
Bethlehem.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4448.shtml


THE END OF A POLITICAL FICTION?
Adam Hanieh, 2 February 2006

Hamas's landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat
Palestinian Legislative Council is an unprecedented turning point for
politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. Arguably for
the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948, an official
administrative power in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has strong
popular support and is not directly beholden to Israeli or Western
interests. The Hamas victory helps to dispel the myths surrounding the
negotiations of the last decade. Hamas's victory expressed a political
sentiment and desire for a real alternative to the Oslo straitjacket.
The Hamas leadership clearly recognizes this and has shown little
inclination to implement far-reaching social changes along religious
lines.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4447.shtml


WASPR DELEGATION DIARY 6
STUCK AT ERETZ CROSSING, HAVING COFFEE WITH KAREEM
Dr. Bill Dienst, 2 February 2006

Have I been blacklisted? What will happen when we are separated from
the rest of the group? After fumbling through my bags on the terminal
floor to find the gifts going into Gaza, I am flabbergasted, and a bit
panicky. I am sent back to the desk to pick up a piece of paper so I
can disembark on the Israeli side of the checkpoint. I feel nervous. I
leave the desk and then return, thinking that the soldiers have not
given me back my passport. They say they can't find it, and after a
cold sweat, I discover it in my shirt pocket, right where it belongs!
Part of the art of living in this part of the world is being
appropriately paranoid, without being excessively so. We all miss the
mark at times. That goes for Israelis, Palestinians, and also human
rights activists.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4396.shtml


WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS 
Laila El-Haddad, 1 February 2006

Yesterday, after a trip around Bait Hanun, Gaza's northern
breadbasket, I headed to the Erez Crossing to give some journalist
friends a lift. They were headed to Jerusalem, where they were based,
and to where I am I unable to travel.I hadn't been to Erez in a while,
namely because there is no point. I am forbidden from entering the
West Bank based on the arbitrary decision of some official in the
Israeli security matrix. Or maybe not so arbitrary. Because obviously
with a pen in one hand, a dirty diaper in the other, I am a very real
and potent threat to the Israeli security establishment.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4446.shtml




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