[Salon] Why did Lapid suddenly remember the Two States? / Masafer Yatta under constant danger / US senators refuse to forget the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh / The West Bank on a verge of explosion

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

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From: Adam Keller <1453ak@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2022

 

Why did Lapid suddenly remember the Two States?

A  littlemore than a year ago

Bennet and Lapid established

The "Government of Change"

And instituted a firm policy:

Not to deal with

The Palestinian issue,

Not to negotiate

And of course not to come

To  any agreement.

 

And so it was, indeed.

During the whole time

Of the government's existence

There were no negotiations.

What definitely did happen

Was ever-increasing

Oppression in the Occupied Territories.

 

But the Palestinians

did not disappear.

Nor did they wait patiently

For Israel to graciously

Notice their existence.

 

More and more Palestinians

Took up arms

To resist the raids of

The occupation army

Into their cities and villages.

 

The death toll continues to mount.

Tensions continue to increase. 

By all accounts

The situation is escalating

Towards a big explosion.

And then, suddenly -

Prime Minister Lapid

Makes a huge u-turn

And tells the United Nations 

Of his intention to promote

The Two-State solution!

But there is a condition:

The Palestinians must

Lay down their arms. 

Lay down their arms?

But, if not for the

Palestinian militias 

Starting to shoot at

Israeli troops, and to

Undermine the stability

Of the occupation rule - 

Would Israel’s PM

Have bothered at all

To refer to them

And their problems? 

Gush Shalom Statement, Oct. 2, 2022

Contact: Adam Keller, +972-(0)54-2340749 

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What is Happening in Masafer Yatta? 

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Hear from residents and activists about the resistance efforts in Masafer Yatta, life under the threat of settler violence and forced evictions.
 
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‘Every day is worse than the one before’: a Palestinian community fights for survival

One of the biggest expulsion decisions since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories began in 1967 has left an entire community at risk

by Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Masafer Yatta, West Bank

Wed 28 Sep 2022 13.34 BSTLast modified on Wed 28 Sep 2022 19.04 BST

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The new school year has started and harvest season is just around the corner, but some of the men and boys of Masafer Yatta are busy working on a different project – moving into a cave.

In Khribet al-Fakhiet, a remote village deep in the occupied West Bank, residents were using an improvised winch mounted on a pickup truck to help clear out a cavern housing sheep and goats. Buckets lowered through the entrance and a hole in the ceiling came back out filled with straw and dung; the dusty, hot interior was lit by lamps powered by a generator. Faced with the demolition of their home, livestock pens and other structures, one family is preparing to relocate into the cave before winter comes.

Full article 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/28/every-day-is-worse-than-the-one-before-a-palestinian-community-fights-for-survival

US senators refuse to let Israel forget the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh 

A mural of the slain Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot dead during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, adorns a wall in Gaza City. Photograph: Adel Hana/AP

The state department seems keen to avoid questions about the Palestinian American journalist’s shooting by an Israeli soldier

Chris McGreal

 

Israel has declared the case closed. The US state department has done its best to duck difficult questions. But leading members of the US Congress are refusing to drop demands for a proper accounting of the death of the Palestinian American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, four months ago.

The longest-serving member of the US Senate, Patrick Leahy, recently upped the ante by warning that Israel’s failure to fully explain the Al-Jazeera reporter’s killing could jeopardize America’s huge military aid to the Jewish state under a law he sponsored 25 years ago cutting weapons supplies to countries that abuse human rights.

Full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/shireen-abu-akleh-us-senators-israel

‘It’s going to explode’: young Palestinians look to the gun amid Israeli offensive

Israel’s Operation Breakwater aims to reduce the Palestinian  ability to launch attacks, but seems to be galvanising a new generation of fighters

Palestinian members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which has rearmed in recent years. Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA

Bethan McKernan and Sufian Taha in Nablus, West Bank

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There is almost nothing left of the Ottoman-era house in the old city of Nablus where Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, an 18-year-old fighter with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, made his final stand against the Israeli army.

Every inch of the remaining walls and ceiling is pockmarked by bullet holes; witnesses said that after a gun battle lasting hours, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) used shoulder-launched rockets to blast open the metal doors. The missiles brought down heavy stonework that crushed the immensely popular young “Lion of Nablus”, wanted for shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

Full article
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/its-going-to-explode-young-palestinians-look-to-the-gun-amid-israeli-offensive