[Marxism] Update From The Electronoc Intifada

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UPDATE FROM THE
ELECTRONIC  INTIFADA

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Human  Rights
HOW ISRAELâS JEWISH TERRORIST BECAME A VICTIM
Jonathan Cook, The  Electronic Intifada, 14 June 2006

Imagine the following scenario. A  Palestinian gunman
boards a bus inside Israel and rides it to the city  of
Netanya. Close to the end of the line, he walks over to
the driver,  levels his automatic rifle against the
manâs head and pumps him with bullets.  He turns and
empties the rest of the magazine -- one of 14 in his
backpack  -- into the passenger behind the driver and
two young women sitting across  the gangway. As
bystanders in the street outside look on in horror,  our
gunman then reloads his weapon and sprays the bus with
yet more fire,  injuring 20 people.

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4805.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4805.shtml)   



Coverage Trends
WAITING TO EXHALE
Zachary Wales, The  Electronic Intifada, 14 June 2006

On Tuesday, state mouthpiece Israel  News Agency
delivered the verdict the world was waiting for: Israel
was  not guilty of the shelling on Beit Lahiya's beach
that wiped out a family of  eight last Friday. The trend
is distinctly Orwellian yet familiar. The  harder
reality bites, the bigger Israel lies. But the story
the media  missed rests less in the allegations and
disputed facts, and more in the  space where the world
waited to exhale. That is, while the media  interrogated
all the possibilities -- or in the above examples, only
one  -- it forgot to interrogate itself. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4804.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4804.shtml)   



Human Rights
ISRAELI POLICE COMMANDER PROMOTED DESPITE  
ROLE IN DEATHS OF ARAB CITIZENS
Report, I'lam, 14 June 2006

The  head of Israel's paramilitary Border Police, Benzi
Sau, has been promoted to  a senior position in the
Public Security Ministry in defiance of the  findings
of a state inquiry that implicated him in the chain of
events  that led to the killing of 12 Arab citizens and
a labourer from Gaza by the  security forces in October
2000. This is Sau's third promotion since the  deaths,
despite a recommendation from the Or Commision of
Inquiry that Sau  not be considered for promotion again
until September 2007. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4807.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4807.shtml)   



Human Rights
MINISTRY PLANS âUNIVERSALâ IMMIGRATION LAW TO  BAN 
ARABS FROM RESIDENCY RIGHTS IN ISRAEL
Report, I'lam, 14 June  2006

The Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, has ordered his
department to  hurriedly draft the country's first
immigration law to protect Israel's  Jewish majority. He
said a Basic Law was needed within eight months,  the
expiry date of the temporary Nationality and Entry into
Israel Law.  The Knesset has repeatedly renewed the law
since the it was first passed in  July 2003 to prevent
Palestinians from the occupied territories who marry  an
Israeli from gaining residency or citizenship rights in
Israel.  

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4809.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4809.shtml)   



Development
OLMERT COOKS THE BOOKS TO DEPRIVE 
ARAB  FAMILIES OF CHILD BENEFITS
Report, I'lam, 14 June 2006

In an attempt  to lure the small ultra-Orthodox party
United Torah Judaism into his new  government, the
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to pay
extra  child allowance to religious Jewish families with
many children in a way that  guarantees the extra
payments do not also go to large Arab families. This  is
the latest in a long line of manoeuvres by successive
Israeli  governments to ensure that Jewish and Arab
citizens receive differential  child allowances so that
higher birth rates among Jewish families can  be
encouraged without also encouraging increased fertility
among Arab  families. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4808.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4808.shtml)   



Activism News
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Open  Letter, JATO, 14 June 2006

We are writing to you as deeply committed Jews  to ask
the Presbyterian Church of the United States to honor
its  commitment to doing justice and seeking peace,
and, in so doing, to act as a  true friend to our own
people. We hope and pray that you will continue  to
disavow Christian Zionism, to condemn Israel's
continuing effort to  extend and consolidate its hold
on Palestinian land and water in the Occupied  West
Bank, and to begin selective divestment of holdings in
multinational  corporations enabling those efforts. 

_http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4806.shtml_ 
(http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article4806.shtml)   



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