| From Thursday, 23 December 2010 To Monday, 27 December 2010 |
by qumsiyeh |
Christmas season and with “Free Palestine” on their brightly colored vests, hundreds of international and Palestinian activists (Muslims, Jews, Christians and others) will be gathering in Bethlehem, Jerusalem and other parts of Occupied Palestine to work for the advancement of peace with justice. Between December 22nd and December 27th, this initiative is led by over a dozen Palestinian organizations, aims to bring attention to and confronts Israel’s regime of occupation, colonialism and Apartheid system through a non-violent direct action program in five Palestinian cities (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus) and several villages (including Beit Sahour, Bilin. and Al-Walaja). The action aims at using the world’s focus on Bethlehem at Christmas time to expose the continuing policy of ethnic cleansing and forced population transfer being committed against the people of Palestine. Media are highly encouraged to join these events especially on December 22nd in Jerusalem and on December 24th at noon to 2:30 PM in the Manger square in Bethlehem.
In this time of year, people around the world celebrate. They celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem Palestine. They celebrate a birth that was meant to propagate a set of ideals to make the world a better place. 2010 years later, that same birthplace is plagued by a regime that practices the exact opposite of those ideals. Bethlehem is surrounded by a racist wall of biblical proportions, by regime which is racist to biblical proportions. Yet people celebrate.
But that is OK. The people of Palestine also celebrate. They need to, as any other people would need to celebrate. After all it is the season to make exceptions. In this season, people make exceptions when it comes to their spending, to their diets, to the way they treat each other. So it is only logical to make an exception by putting an effort for the land, the homes and people of the birthplace of Christmas… for justice in Palestine…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
The politics of the peace process have emphatically ensured that the mere prospect for producing peace is nonexistent.
Richard Falk Last Modified: 18 Dec 2010
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| Netanyahu’s hardline stance on crucial issues is pushing both the US and Palestinian parties into a restrictive corner, potentially closing the current chapter of the ‘ill-fated book’ that is the peace process [AFP] |
It is astonishing that despite the huge gaps between the maximum that Israel is willing to concede and the minimum that the Palestine Authority could accept as the basis of a final settlement of the conflict, governmental leaders, especially in Washington, continue to pull every available string to restart inter-governmental negotiations.
Is it not enough of a signal that Israel lacks the capacity or will to agree to an extension of the partial settlement freeze for a mere additional 90 days, despite the outrageous inducements from the Obama Administration (20 F-35 fighter jets useful for an attack on Iran; an unprecedented advance promise to veto any initiative in the Security Council acknowledging a Palestinian state; and the assurance that Israel would never again be asked to accept a settlement moratorium) that were offered to suspend partially their unlawful settlement activity.
In effect, a habitual armed robber was being asked to stop robbing a few banks for three months in exchange for a huge financial payoff. Such an arrangement qualifies as a transparently shameless embrace of Israeli lawlessness on behalf of a peace process that has no prospect of producing peace, much less justice.
Justice here is conceived in relation to the satisfaction of Palestinian rights, especially the right of self–determination that has through the years been whittled down.
The continued division of Historic Palestine
The Palestinian acceptance of the 1967 borders (a decision ratified by the PLO in 1988) as the unilaterally reduced basis of the territorial claims associated with Palestinian self-determination, which is only 22 per cent of historic Palestine, and this is less than half of what the UN had proposed in its 1947 partition plan that was at that time quite reasonably rejected by the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours as a colonialist ploy in which the indigenous population was adversely affected and never consulted.
In retrospect, the Palestinian readiness to settle for the 1967 borders was an extraordinary concession in advance of negotiations that was never acknowledged by either Israel or the United States, casting real doubt on whether there was ever a credible commitment to end the conflict by diplomacy.
The shamelessness continues. Instead of castigating Israel for its refusal to show even a pretense of pragmatic flexibility that would make the Obama approach seem slightly less fatuous and regressively wimpy, the US government simply announced that it was abandoning its efforts to persuade Israel to extend the moratorium, and was now embarking on a resumption of the negotiations between the parties without any preconditions, that is, settlement expansion and ethnic cleansing could now continue uncontested.
EU: vocal on settlements and silent of statehood
This was too much even for the normally passive European Union. A few days ago a meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels issued a statement insisting that all Israeli activity cease in what was called the “illegal settlements” and that the Gaza blockade be ended “immediately” by an opening of all the crossings to humanitarian and commercial goods, as well as to the entry and exit of persons.
The EU statement was impressively forthright for once: “Our view on settlements, including East Jerusalem, are clear: they are illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace.”
Regrettably, the EU statement was silent on the issue of recognition of Palestinian statehood, losing the opportunity to reinforce the symbolically important diplomatic step taken by Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay to accord Palestine recognition within its 1967 borders.
Nevertheless, the EU did distance itself from Washington, leaving the United States to the discomfort of its lonely solidarity with Israel. By refusing a diplomatic accommodation with Turkey in the aftermath of the flagrantly criminal attack last May on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered people of Gaza, Israel confirms this perception of its pariah status.
Underneath these dark clouds of deception and delusion, the peoples of occupied Palestine, as well as the several million refugees, endure their harsh daily existence while the world watches and waits, seemingly helpless.
The durable American envoy to the conflict, George Mitchell, continues to say that the objective of the talks is “an independent, viable state of Palestine..living side by side with Israel.” The incoherence of such an objective should be palpable. How can one honestly talk about such an envisioned Palestinian state as “viable” when the American leadership agrees with Israel that “subsequent developments” (the code phrase for settlements, land seizures, wall, ethnic cleansing, annexation of Jerusalem) need to be embodied in the outcome of negotiations?
And what sort of “independence” is being contemplated if the Palestinian borders are to be still controlled by Israeli security forces and a demilitarised Palestine is expected to live side by side with a highly militarised Israel? The American approach plays with lives as it plays with language, and yet most of the mainstream media swallows this latest bend in the river without raising even a sceptical eyebrow.
The value of retrospection
These considerations ignore some other problematic aspects of the current framework. The Netanyahu government demands PA acknowledgement of Israel as “a Jewish state,” thereby overlooking the human rights of the Palestinian minority in pre-1967 Israel, numbering about 1.5 million or about 20 per cent of the total population, to live as citizens under conditions of non-discrimination and dignity.
Sometimes history is useful. Even the notorious Balfour Declaration, a pure assertion of British colonial prerogative, promised the Zionist movement only “a homeland,” not a sovereign state. The workings of warfare and geopolitics and clever propaganda gradually shifted the parameters of understanding, allowing a homeland to be transformed into a sovereign state with disastrous chain of consequences for the indigenous population.
In this respect the most recent Hamas position of refusing recognition of Israel while agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders is a reasonable effort to draw a line between affirming the illegitimate and being reconciled to political circumstances. To expect more is to drive the Palestinians into an unacceptable corner of humiliation, in effect, endorsing the nakba, and all that has followed by way of dispossession and abuse.
Of course, the issue of self-determination is not for non-Palestinians to determine. Those who call upon Washington, even now and despite its partisanship and ill-concealed alignments, to impose a solution are thus doubly misguided. Even Hilary Clinton acknowledged days ago the impossibility of adopting such an approach.
What seems clear at present is that both the PA and Hamas seem ready to accept a state of their own within 1967 borders, more or less along the lines set forth back in 1967 in the Security Resolution 242, which remains an iconic document that supposedly embodies a continuing international consensus. What it would mean with respect to implementation is certain to be highly contentious, especially in relation to those infamous “subsequent developments,” better understood as massive encroachments on Palestinian prospects for separate statehood.
The mindlessness of diplomacy
Many in the Palestinian diaspora doubt whether a two-state solution is attainable or desirable. Instead they are calling for a single secular, bi-national democratic state that is co-terminus with the historic Palestinian mandate, and alone has the inherent capacity to reconcile contemporary ideas of democracy, human rights, and a belated realisation of Palestinian rights, including the long deferred claims of Palestinian refugees.
Geopolitics is stubborn, and is not moving in hopeful directions. Now arms are being again twisted by American diplomacy in the region to resume talks between the parties on what are being called “core issues” (borders, security arrangements, Jerusalem, settlements, refugees, relations with neighbours).
While this mindless diplomatic spinning goes forth, other clocks are ticking madly: the settlements expanding at accelerating rates, new segments of the wall are being constructed, ethnic cleansing intensifies in East Jerusalem, the apartheid practices and structures in the West Bank are being steadily strengthened, the entrapped and imprisoned population of Gaza lives continuously on the brink of a survival crisis, the refugees in their camps endure their dreary and unacceptable confinement.
Netanyahu thunderously warns that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, that never will a single Palestinian refugee be allowed to return, that Israel is a Jewish state, and that whatever Tel Aviv calls “security” must be treated as non-negotiable. Given these predispositions, combined with the disparities in bargaining power between the parties, as well as the one-sided hegemonic role of the United States, who but a fool could think that a just peace could emerge from the such a deformed pattern of geopolitical diplomacy?
Is it not better at this time to rely on the growing Palestine Solidarity Movement, peace from below, and the related success being experienced in waging the Legitimacy War against Israel, what Israel itself nervously calls “the de-legitimacy project” that is viewed by its leaders and think tanks as a far greater threat to its illicit ambitions than armed resistance?
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades, most recently editing the volume International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice (Routledge, 2008).
He is currently serving his third year of a six year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.
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an open letter from the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Afghans for Peace
As the Obama administration releases its December review of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, along with Afghans for Peace, have issued a review of their experiences. To express support for their letter, click here.
To all the leaders of our world, the leaders of the US-led coalition, the Afghan government, the ‘Taliban/Al-Qaeda’ and regional countries,
We are intolerably angry.
All our senses are hurting.
Our women, our men and yes shame on you, our children are grieving.
Your Afghan civilian-military strategy is a murderous stench we smell, see, hear and breathe.
President Obama, and all the elite players and people of the world, why?
America’s 250-million-dollar annual communications budget just to scream propaganda on this war of perceptions, with its nauseating rhetoric mimicked by Osama and other warlords, is powerless before the silent wailing of every anaemic mother.
We will no longer be passive prey to your disrespectful systems of oligarchic, plutocratic war against the people.
Your systems feed the rich and powerful. They are glaringly un-equal, they do not listen, do not think and worst, they do not care.
We choose not to gluttonize with you. We choose not to be trained by you. We choose not to be pawned by you.
We henceforth refuse every weapon you kill us with, every dollar you bait us with and every lie you manipulate us with.
We are not beasts.
We are Afghans, Americans, Europeans, Asians and global citizens.
Yes, you have the false, self-appointed power to arrest us over expressing the public opinion of ordinary folk, students, farmers, shepherds, labourers, teachers, doctors….., people who now have nowhere to turn and nowhere to hide. (See Open Letter to our World Leaders)
This world public opinion against the Afghan war has been clearly expressed and is larger than any number of Wikileaks you seek to suppress. So, come arrest us all as we civilly disobey you. Come arrest us all. (See excerpt below from Wikipedia’s ‘International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan’ )
Yes, you have the army, police and apparatchik to smother us and to bribe those who are Pavlov-reflexed to money, but you cannot stop us from restoring our voice.
We refuse to prostitute our hearts and minds.
We refuse you.
Not you the human person, but you the greedy system of self-interested power.
Again and again here in Afghanistan, we have seen a hope for non-violence light up; every day we see a yearning for humane relationships, and because of this, love is how we now firmly take our stand.
We will listen to the People on December 19th, on the Global Day of Listening to Afghans and we invite every one of you to pick up your phone to call us, to share one another’s pain, and to call our world to urgent reconciliation. We invite the world public opinion to overwhelm us! (Email youthpeacevolunteers@gmail.com to arrange a call.)
We wish to invite all the people of the world because when the powers are not listening to the people, listening becomes an act of love, it becomes a solidarity of non-violent resistance.
How can we do any less?
14-year-old Abdulai’s father was killed by the ‘Taliban’ and so, like every other human being, he copes with sorrow, hate, fear and anger.
But, he wakes up to the chronic war days in his land sensing that ‘something is very wrong with the world I’m caught up in’, ‘these elders of the world are not getting it…..’.
How does trillion-deficit killing, followed by the strategy of escalated killing and yet another review for more killing, work?
How does it make anyone safer?
How does it solve the incorruptible corruption, unequalled inequality and inviolate violence we face daily?
Your policies, skewed-ly ‘diagnosed’ and ‘reviewed’ in a cold clinical manner divorced from reality, have been deaf to the concerns and needs of the people, thus we endeavour to have a People’s Afghanistan December Review, because that’s what ordinary people can do.
We would try not to ‘throw’ our shoes at you. We would try to recognize the better side of all human beings and thus continue to serve our commoner’s tea and bread to one and all. But we do ask, plead and demand that you stop your unsustainable, superpower militarism.
We want peace.
We want you out.
With singular sincerity,
Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog
Afghans for Peace http://afghansforpeace.org/
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My people, the suppressed millions, are my heroes. They are the real source of any positive change in Afghanistan and their power is stronger than anything else. And anti-war protesters around the world, those who are standing against the destructive policies of world powers. There is a superpower in the world besides the US government — world public opinion.”–Malalai Joya
Notes from Wikipedia:
International public opinion is largely opposed to the war in Afghanistan.
The 25-nation Pew Global Attitudes survey in June 2009 reported that majorities or pluralities in 18 out of 25 countries want U.S. and NATO to remove their military troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible.
Despite American calls for NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, there was majority or plurality opposition to such action in every one of the NATO countries surveyed: Germany (63% opposition), France (62%), Poland (57%), Canada (55%), Britain (51%), Spain (50%), and Turkey (49%).
In Europe, poll after poll in France, Germany and even Britain show that the European public want their troops to be pulled out and less money spent on the war in Afghanistan.
According to the ABC News/BBC/ARD/Washington Post poll of 1,691 Afghan adults from Oct. 29-Nov. 13, 2010:
Afghans indicated they were more pessimistic about the direction of their country, less confident about U.S.-led coalition troops providing security and more willing to negotiate with the Taliban than a year ago.
More than half of Afghans interviewed said U.S. and NATO forces should begin withdrawing from the country in mid-2011 or sooner.
There are the occupation forces from the sky, dropping cluster bombs and depleted uranium, and on the ground there are the fundamentalist warlords and the Taliban, with their own guns.
If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.”–Malalai Joya
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Leading Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni yesterday received the 100,000LE “Arabic Novel Award” at the closing ceremony of the Cairo Novel Conference.
The prize, awarded by Egypt’s Ministry of Culture, is handed out every two years.
Al-Koni announced, after receiving the award from Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, that he would donate the prize money to the Mali- and Niger-dwelling children of the Touareg tribe. Al-Koni himself hails from the Touareg of Libya.
The selection process apparently considered 23 competing works, although there was no indication, at least that I could find, as to how those 23 were selected.
The first Arab Novel Award went to Saudi author Abel-Rahman Munif. The second round in 2003 went to Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim, who took the stage to refuse the award, ending his brief speech by saying he would not accept a literary prize from “a government that, in my opinion, does not possess the credibility to grant it.” He then left the prize and walked out.
The third award in 2005 went to Sudanese author Tayyeb Saleh, and, in 2008, the prize went to Egyptian author Edward Kharrat.
A number of Al-Koni’s books have been translated into English: the beautiful Bleeding of the Stone, translated by May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley; Gold Dust, which earned Elliott Colla a runner-up citatoin from the 2009 Saif Ghobash Prize for Arabic Literary Translation; Anubis: A Desert Novel and The Seven Veils of Seth, both translated by William Hutchins; and The Puppet, released this fall, also translated by Hutchins.
The Puppet was one of my ten favorite Arabic books (in English translation) of 2010. Of it, I said:
Libya’s leading contemporary author, Ibrahim al-Koni is attracted to ancient struggles, the desert landscape of his childhood, and the power of commerce. The Puppet, first published in Arabic in 1998, is populated by a number of folklore-like characters. Among them are: Aghulli, the “sage and leader”; Ahallum, the “warrior hero,” and Chief Merchant, “the man with two veils.” Aghulli is compelled by oasis residents to take over leadership of the tribe. When he tries to enforce the old laws, there are disastrous effects. Al-Koni, who has published more than forty novels, is one of world literature’s truly original writers.
Also: In June of 2011, al-Koni’s sweeping novel The Animists, should be out from AUC Press, translated by Elliott Colla. From the AUC Press promotional blurb:
Renowned as Ibrahim al-Koni’s masterpiece, The Animists is an epic story of the many winds sweeping north and south across the Sahara—of the struggles between devils and humankind, worldly traders and Sufi ascetics, monotheists and animists, nomads and city dwellers, life and death. Al-Koni’s depiction of the Saharan crossroads is at its richest in this novel—nowhere else is his portrayal of humanity’s spiritual and existential battles so complex and compelling, nowhere else are his unique storytelling skills so evidently displayed.
Yes, Controversies at the Conference!
Al Arabiya notes, in its coverage of the prize and conference, that a number of writers boycotted this year, and that there was almost a complete absence of young authors.
Alaa al-Aswany went further, and dismissed the event—according to Al Masry Al Youm––as “a waste of public money.”
In a statement with which I really can’t agree, al-Aswany announced:
This is a farce? Has the forum ever improved the Arab novel? Novels would improve only when individual novelists can write good novels in their houses… We do not have to spend millions that come from Egyptian taxpayers.
Prominent Egyptian author Gamal al-Ghitani defended the forum:
Forums are a good opportunity for Arab writers to meet and exchange ideas. Spending money on cultural events where respectable Arab writers are invited–isn’t that better than wasting public money on other stuff?
Bahaa Taher added:
The state spends on culture one tenth of what it spends on football and TV.
(And we shan’t go into what-all else the state spends its money on.)
Other Lit-Prize Controversies: Yes, That’s Me, Ms. ‘Rose-Tinted Glasses’
Lastly, in a Reuters piece about the beleaguered and controversy-sieged Arabic Booker, I stand up for the blessed thing. Sigh.
Ali Abunimah
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Highlights from The Electronic Intifada 2010
- Gaza’s thin red line one year later
Eva Bartlett, 22 January 2010 - “Palestinian journalists can’t work freely or safely”
Sarah Irving, 22 January 2010 - Israel bombs Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink
Eva Bartlett, 15 February 2010 - Grassroots organizer targeted by PA, Israeli forces
Nora Barrows-Friedman, 13 April 2010 - Israel’s repression of its Palestinian citizens unites us in struggle
Ameer Makhoul, 6 May 2010 - Quartet ex-envoy’s investment helps Israel greenwash settlements
Ali Abunimah, 6 May 2010 - A day in Jerusalem
Yasmeen El Khoudary, 11 May 2010 - International solidarity and the Freedom Flotilla massacre
Editorial, 31 May 2010 - The day the world became Gaza
Ali Abunimah, 4 June 2010 - The crimes I saw on the Mavi Marmara
Lubna Masarwa, 8 June 2010 - The Last Queen of the Night
Yasmeen El Khoudary 5 July 2010 - Youth re-imagine life through short films
Kara Newhouse, 20 August 2010 - An artist’s pledge to boycott
Dave Lordan, 27 August 2010 - No reconstruction despite siege “easing”
Rami Almeghari, 27 August 2010 - Washington peace talks: democracy need not apply
Matthew Cassel, 15 September 2010 - Indigenous resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
Anna Baltzer, 16 September 2010 - Activists face broad PA crackdown in West Bank
Nora Barrows-Friedman, 22 September 2010 - Palestinians take to Jerusalem streets after killing
Joseph Dana, 22 September 2010 - “Why aren’t the Bedouin treated like Jewish citizens?”
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, 24 September 2010 - Days before birthday, my son sees Gaza’s horror
Rami Almeghari, 30 September 2010 - Dutch company raided over involvement in occupation
Adri Nieuwhof, 20 October 2010 - Police repress convergence on UK weapons factory
Bridget Chappell, 22 October 2010 - The great book robbery of 1948
Arwa Aburawa, 9 November 2010 - US activists face new repression as political prisoners fight for justice
Nora Barrows-Friedman and Maureen Clare Murphy, 15 November 2010 - Book review: An Israeli academic’s struggle against McCarthyism
Raymond Deane, 17 November 2010 - Photostory: somber holiday under occupation
Sanne Winderickx, 25 November 2010 - Why NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifada
Report, 30 November 2010 - The Carmel wildfire is burning all illusions in Israel
Max Blumenthal, 6 December 2010
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