Israeli MANIACS Attack Palestinian Civilians

http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=475:israeli-maniacs-attack-palestinian-civilians&catid=59:west-bank&Itemid=183

Sunday, 05 April 2009

Jerusalem, April 6, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - As part of the ongoing Israeli measures in Jerusalem, hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked Al-Sadya neighborhood in east Jerusalem. The attackers tried to storm houses of the Al Jabir family.

Bloody clashes erupted in the area as the settlers, backed by the Israeli army, surprisingly came into the area on Sunday evening. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered to challenge the settlers who tried to advance into the area.

Israel escalated its repressive bloody actions as the new fundamentalist mayor, Nir Barka, recently took office.

The settlers attacks resulted in 10 Palestinians wounded and 4 Palestinians captured by the Israeli army.

The mayor has requested the demolition of tens of Palestinian houses in Kafir Silwad to minimize the Palestinian polulation of occupied Jerusalem.

More than 150 Israeli settlers armed with guns and heavy military equiptment attacked Hebron city. Many houses were stormed in towns of Jabir, Wadi Nasara and Wadi Ehsan near the holy mosque of Abarahm.

Four Palestinian shops were occupied by maniac settlers in the old market of Hebron City. Dogs, animals and other means are being used by Israeli settlers to force Palestinians into leaving their houses.

Thousands of Hectares of Palestinian land were confiscated as successive Israeli governments implemented plans of Judaizing Jerusalem. Thousands of houses were occupied and tens of Israeli settlers forcibly dwelled in the occupied houses.

Haaretz said that new rightist Israeli government plans to encourage settlement expansion across the West

Italians boycott Israeli goods for 3 days

 

Rome，2009 Mar 28，IRIB

 

In a move in support of the Palestinian nation and in protest against the recent crimes of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, the Italian people boycotted Israeli goods for three days.

 

According to IRIB reporter from Rome, Italians residing in different cities descended on supermarkets and urged people not to buy Israeli goods.

 

They are also scheduled to gather in front of the United Nations office in Rome to hold an anti-Zionism demonstration.

 

 

 

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Innocent drinks offer a taste to Coca-Cola

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/06/innocent-drinks-sell-stake-coca-cola
 
Innocent, the defiantly non-corporate maker of fruit smoothies, juices and veg pots, has finally lost its innocence after selling a stake to US giant Coca-Cola for £30m.
 

Innocent, which markets itself as eco-friendly and distributes drinks in vans made to look like cows, has sold a minority stake of between 10% and 20% to Coca-Cola in order to raise funds so it can expand into Europe.

 
The sale of the stake marks a watershed moment for the 10-year-old company as it becomes the latest high profile success story to sell-up to a corporate giant.

 
Innocent joins alumni which include UK sandwich chain Pret a Manger, which sold a minority stake to McDonald's, ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry's, which sold up to Unilever, and Cadbury, which took over trendy organic chocolate company Green & Black's.

 
Based at Fruit Towers in West London, Innocent markets itself by running "village fetes" and the Fruitstock festival in Regent's Park and defended Coca-Cola's investment by saying it would not crush the company's ideals and eco-friendly positioning.

 
"Every promise that Innocent has made, about making only natural healthy products, pioneering the use of better, socially and environmentally aware ingredients, packaging and production techniques, donating money to charity and having a point of view on the world will remain," said co-founder Richard Reed. "We'll just get to do them even more."

 
Reed stressed that the founders, which include two friends from Cambridge University Adam Balon and Jon Wright, were not seeing the investment as an exit strategy and that all the funds were remaining in the business to fund European expansion.

 
"The founders will continue to lead and run the company, we will be the same people in the same offices making the same products in the same way," he said. Innocent employs around 250 staff.

 
When asked if Coca-Cola had an option in the future to take a controlling stake in the company, Reed would not be drawn beyond saying that "nothing is definite in the future but of course both sides hope the relationship will prosper".

 
In 2007 Innocent came in for flack from many of its fans for agreeing to a trial partnership of its children's smoothies in US fast-food giant McDonald's Happy Meals.

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Motorola drops bomb-fuse unit after boycott campaign

 

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10450.shtml 

5th April, Press release, The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel.  

Motorola has sold a controversial unit that produced bomb fuses and other equipment for the Israeli military, according to the Israeli financial newspaper Globes. The sale rids Motorola of some activities that had made it the target of a growing boycott in the US and worldwide. No explanation was offered in the media reports for the sale by Motorola Israel -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola -- of its unit called Government Electronics Department (GED) to the Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd.

The sale came just days after a 30 March protest in Brooklyn by The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) kicking off a city-wide campaign to boycott Motorola over its support for Israeli apartheid. Ryvka Bar Zohar from NYCBI commented, "We are heartened that Motorola has eliminated at least its production of bomb fuses for bombs that Israel dropped on the Palestinian and Lebanese people. But we will continue our campaign to boycott Motorola until it is clear that it has eliminated production and sale of all products used to support Israeli apartheid."

Human rights advocates in Boston and California also recently protested against Motorola. These campaigns build on the national "Hang Up on Motorola" campaign initiated by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, as well as initiatives by the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. University students have also recently taken up the call to boycott Motorola, achieving a divestment success at Hampshire College. Previously, Motorola had been the target of a successful boycott campaign for its support of the government of apartheid South Africa.

Motorola Israel produced fuses used in cluster, "bunker-buster," and other bombs. Cluster bombs are specifically condemned by an international consensus of human rights organizations, and banned by many countries. The US government has voiced concern over the use of these bombs and recently took steps towards a complete ban on their use. Human Rights Watch researchers reported that they found Motorola parts at the site of the bombing that began Israel's latest assault on Gaza that killed around 1,400 Palestinians, more than 400 of whom were children.

While the sale of GED eliminates Motorola's production and sale of bomb fuses, it has not yet been verified whether the sale of GED will rid Motorola of all other products that are boycott targets. Motorola Israel acquired a $100 million contract to provide a data encrypted cellular network, "Mountain Rose," to allow the Israeli army, which consistently and severely violates Palestinian human rights, to communicate securely anywhere they operate. Motorola supplied the Israeli military with the Wide Area Surveillance System (WASS) and other high-tech configurations of radar devices and thermal cameras. These surveillance systems are installed around Israeli settlement/colonies and the apartheid wall, both of which Israel has constructed in the Palestinian West Bank in violation of international law.

On 30 March, NYCBI organized more than 50 New Yorkers in a morning protest outside the Motorola office in Brooklyn. Protest chants included: "No More Fuses, No More Bombs, Moto's Killing Kids and Moms," and "Motorola You Can't Hide, You're Supporting Apartheid." Signs read "Goodbye Moto! Goodbye Apartheid!," and "Israeli Apartheid, We Don't Buy It, Boycott Motorola." The protest coincided with Palestinians' annual commemoration of Land Day, and was part of the Global Day of Action for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel, that included more than 40 events worldwide. An NYCBI online Motorola boycott pledge has very quickly gained over 160 signatories.

In 2005, following 13 years of fruitless negotiations that were accompanied by continued Israeli human rights abuses, hundreds of Palestinian civil society organizations called on the world to implement campaigns of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli institutions and businesses. Supporters of the growing worldwide BDS movement argue that a moral campaign of nonviolent public pressure like that used to topple apartheid in South Africa will pressure Israel to change its treatment of Palestinians. Adalah-NY, a member group in NYCBI, has carried out a highly successful New York campaign to boycott diamond mogul and Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev.
 

 

 

 

 

 

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1346 children lost one or both parents during Israel’s assault on Gaza

http://www.imemc.org/article/59779

 

The Islamic Relief Organization in the Gaza Strip reported that 1346 Palestinian children lost one parent or both during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

 

Mohammad Abu Darraz, head of the Child Center at the organization, reported that in most cases orphaned children lost their fathers.

Darraz stated that there are 5200 orphans in the Gaza Strip, and added that the organization received so far 500 forms asking for sponsorships for orphaned children, but the organization only managed to approve 200.

Israel is facing accusations if committing war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza as it shelled civilian areas and used White Phosphorous shells.

Numerous eyewitness accounts revealed that Israeli soldiers used civilians as human shields during the war which is a direct violation to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

This is besides the shelling of homes, schools, universities, UNRWA facilities, and even mosques.

Israel embarked the war against Gaza on December 27 2008, and ended it in a "unilateral ceasefire" declaration on January 18, 2009. 1340 Palestinians were killed, more than half of them were children and women. At least 5000 Palestinians were wounded.

 

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Belgian campaign targets bank financing Israeli settlements

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10434.shtml
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 1 April 2009

A demonstrator in Brussels takes out his anger at Dexia's funding of settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, January 2009. (Han Soete)

In a remarkably short period of time, activists in Belgium have built a strong basis for the campaign "Israel colonizes -- Dexia funds," asking the bank to divest from its subsidiary Dexia Israel because of its financing of the expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Israeli settlements violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, prohibiting the Occupying Power to deport or transfer parts of its civilian population into the territory it occupies, as well as Article 53 prohibiting the destruction of property on occupied territory. The Dexia campaign is flourishing in Belgium and may potentially spread to other countries where Dexia subsidiaries are based.

The French-Belgian bank Dexia bought the Israeli Municipality Treasure Bank in 2001 and established Dexia Israel. Centrum voor Ontwikkeling, Documentatie en Informatie Palestijnen (CODIP), an organization focusing on Palestine, raised its concern about the transfer in a letter to Dexia's board of directors in April 2001. The organization argues that Dexia's investment in an Israeli bank involved in public loans might give the impression that the bank "supports Israel's policy of occupation, colonization and discrimination."

Seven Belgian organizations decided to join forces in the Dexia Committee in 2008. The committee summoned the help of the Who Profits from the Occupation? project to investigate the relationship between Dexia and Israel's occupation. In late October 2008, Who Profits informed the Dexia Committee that Dexia Public Finance Israel is involved in activities in the illegal settlements. This was clear from statements by the CEO of Dexia Israel to the Israeli parliament, that since 2005 long-term loans and other financial services were given to at least seven Israeli municipalities in different regions of the occupied West Bank, including Ariel, Alfei Menashe, Beit Aryeh, Beit-El, Elkana, Har Hebron, Kedumim and Givat Zeev.

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Adri Nieuwhof is a consultant and human rights advocate based in Switzerland.