OCCUPATION MAGAZINE

Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies – Despite orders from the Civil Administration of the Israeli Defence Ministry issued in 2011 to stop construction in the Miztpeh Cramim outpost, homes have been completed and are now occupied by Israeli settlers, reported Haaretz. The settlers ignored the order; the Israeli army ignored the ongoing construction, and the defence establishment took no positive action to stop the construction.-rh

Tanzil Chowdhury – The Electronic Intifada – There is a nuance in the nature of the occupation. It is not just overt aggression, it is something more sinister. It is bullying, picking on the weak, shoving it in their face. Just a few minutes in al-Walaja with Sheerin al-Araj illustrates how the occupation is the absolute salt in the wound.-rh

Raphael Ahren – The Times of Israel – “I don’t think Yad Vashem should be the gateway through which every official guest should go through, because that’s emotional blackmailing rather than confidence building,” said former Knesset speaker and Jewish Agency chairman Avraham Burg.-rh

Harriet Sherwood – The Guardian – But, now, in the last years of her life, Ros is ashamed. One of the 198,000 Holocaust survivors still alive in Israel, she is also one of the growing proportion who cannot make ends meet, who struggle with insufficient funds on a daily basis. Wiping a single tear with a shaking hand, she says: “For the first time, I don`t have enough money for food or clothes. I used to have pride, now I am ashamed.”-rh

Haaretz – Editorial – If in the past Israelis looked away so as not to see what was happening in the state`s backyard, now they`re doing the same when the offense takes place in the state`s shop window, right in front of their lounge chairs.-rh

Yotam Shlomo – New Profile – In her refusal declaration Noam wrote:”I refuse to join an army that has, since it was established, been engaged in dominating another nation, in plundering and terrorizing a civilian population that is under its control.-rh

Haggai Matar – +972 – Of course, mine is not the Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner, deputy commander of the Jordan Valley brigade who rammed his rifle in face of Danish activist on Sunday. The person who sent me to the hospital with his blows was another soldier, in reserve service, whose name I still do not know to this day. It was a generic Shalom Eisner, a Shalom Eisner like any other soldier of the occupation who ever attacked, shot, broke, beat, arrested, kicked, twisted, detained, tortured, step on, sprayed or humiliated unarmed civilians.-rh

Amira Hass – Haaretz – The only excessive stupidity of which deputy brigade commander Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner can be accused is hitting a young blond man in front of a camera. Other commanders and their subordinates will learn the lesson. They`ll check for any subversive cameras before going on to do what is unexceptional in the Wild East.-rh

Julie Holm – MIFTAH – Luckily, this case shows that sometimes, a camera is a better weapon than an M-16. As the Danish activist pointed out, a blow to the head heals in a couple of days but what the Israelis do to the Palestinians does not disappear that easily. In other words, Andreas has unwittingly contributed to exposing the real face of the occupation in ways the Palestinians never can.-rh

Moriel Rothman – +972 – The eviction itself was carried out early Wednesday morning by the police, who detained or arrested all of the male members of the Natche family, leaving only the mother, who is pregnant, and her daughters to watch as a rented moving company loaded all of the family’s belongings onto a truck and drove off. The settlers are expected to move into the Natche house as early as Wednesday evening.-rh