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July 2002: Thanks to our wonderful PM, our army has re-invaded most of the occupied territories. The Palestinian Authority (PA) infrastructure has been destroyed by Sharon's soldiers, and now he expects them to deal with the hunger and desperation that our act causes. He insists that he will not return to the negotiation table till the PA is rid of corruption, as if the Israeli governments have not had their share of scandals.

I find it incomprehensible that while Sharon has failed to bring peace, has failed to bring economical stability, has failed to bring security - he still has the people's support. If elections were held today, Sharon would win again. We are indeed a stupid nation. Perhaps we deserve what we get.

April 2002: Sharon, our Prime Minister, has invaded Ramallah and Jenin. He pretends to want peace, but has ignored the Saudi offer of *total* peace with the *whole* arab world, in exchange for evacuating all the (illegal!) settlements.

The Israeli army's presence in Ramallah is illegal. Serving in this army is illegal. I applaud the soldiers / reserve soldiers who refuse to take part in these war crimes.

Israel is slowly becoming a fascist police-state. At a recent jewish-arab peace-march intended to bring food and medicine to Ramallah, the police/soldiers used tear gas and clubs to disperse the peaceful marchers, breaking bones and causing concussions. A few days later they used their clubs again to disperse a demonstration opposite the US embassy in Tel Aviv, because they did not like the fact that the demonstrators held the Palestinian flag. Israel is (supposedly) a democratic country and it is (supposed to be) legal to wave any flag you like. Apparently not.

The army in Ramallah and Jenin is reported to be plundering the palestinians' homes. They have cut off their electricity and water supply. They are not allowing them to treat their wounded or bury their dead. These are all war crimes, and I am ashamed to be Israeli. Will all the collaborators now later on say 'we didn't know' ???

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October 2000: Israel is considering war. Barak is talking about bringing Sharon (proven murderer) into an 'emergency government' which will most definitely kill any chance of a peace accord. Most Israelis are concentrating on the killings of Israelis while conveniently forgetting that more than 90 Palestinians have been killed in the past 2 weeks. Even (so called) left wingers are saying that we do not have a 'partner' to make peace with. I say we stop comparing the opressed with the opressor and just MAKE PEACE ALREADY.

Older stuff:
I like protesting. About most anything <G>... Seriously though - I'm *very* left-wing in my political opinions - very nearly a commie, in fact. I'm very much for returning the territories we have been occupying for so long, and may East-Jerusalem be the capital of Palestine, 'bimhera beyameynu' (sorry, this only works in hebrew).
Unfortunately, since Bibi (Benjamin Netanyahu) (read below) became prime minister, the situation in Israel is miserable - from the verge of a comprehensive Middle East peace, we've gone to the brink of war. I have left most of my political activities described below, and feel bad about that - but it just seems that there's nothing to do. (Which of course, is wrong - THIS is the time to do something!... )

The one thing I *can* do at least is to put a link here to Gush Shalom, an extreme left apolitical (?) organization I once 'belonged' to (well, I went to their demonstrations and put their stickers on my car).
and... some more links:
A site commemorating Rabin and expressing disgust at Bibi's existence - with a neat java thingy to kvetch Bibi's face
BibiWatch - an independent weekly newsletter, whose goal is to keep an eye on Bibi. Unfortunately, no longer updated, but you can read the archives.
Ariga/peace - so many links... including one to Rabin's last speech.

You can find me every friday between 1pm-2pm at the 'Tnuva junction' in Tel Aviv (obviously, only when I'm in Israel) protesting with other 'Women in Black' against the occupation. This brings me to another political interest of mine - feminism. More about that further on. (that is, when i get around to it... (when? when??))
I used to be a member of Ratz - the Israeli civil rights party - now part of Meretz. I was even a council member. However, that is in the past - Meretz has disappointed me in many ways but the main reason I left is my having realized that I am not a Zionist, while Meretz is still a zionist party. I still haven't found a party I wholly identify with, certainly not like I once identified with Meretz (I shudder to remember myself last elections in the Meretz tshirt and hat handing out fliers and trying to convince people on the apathetic israeli street to vote for Meretz - sheesh... talk about dedication <G>), but I probably believe most in Hadash. This of course means hardly anything to you if you're non israeli :) .
I'm writing this in a rather sad/panicky state of mind, as the results of the israeli elections held yesterday (May 29 1996) make me fear for the future of the arab-israeli peace process and generally for democracy in israel. I see no polite way of saying this - Israel now has a fascist moron (*very* dangerous combination) prime minister (Bibi Netanyahu, in case you haven't been following israeli politics all that closely). I've been looking forward to finishing my exams and going back home for the summer but now I'm not sure Israel is where I want to be... or live. Hopefully we will get through the next 4 years...
June 5th 1996 UPDATE:
A glimmer of hope - the Israeli Supreme Court is to decide whether (sp?) the elections for PM are to be cancelled or not, due to the high number (150,000) of blank votes - if these votes are taken into consideration, then neither candidate got more than 50% of the votes. We shall see... I might even start believing in God <G>. I'll keep you posted of course :)
later date UPDATE:
Sorry to say, we're still stuck with Bibi. (So much for believing in God). However, on a more humorous note, here are 10 ways to mispronounce Bibi's name, as presented on the Late Show with David Letterman and most kindly sent to me by amraam^ :)
A year and a half later (Dec 1997) UPDATE:
Everything I feared has come true. Bibi goes from one catastrophe to the other. *sob*

Much later - November 1998:
Bibi has finally gone one step towards peace, by signing the Wye Plantation accord. I really hope this works out.

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