From: Mazin Qumsiyeh
Mr. Abbas agreed to go back to public negotiations with a pathological liar
(Netanyahu, see below). Private negotiations have been ongoing behind the
scenes. Public and private negotiations for the past 20 years produced
nothing tangible except increasing the number of colonial Jewish settlers
in the West Bank from 200,000 in 1992 to 650,000 today and subcontracting
Israeli security to Palestinian security officials. Israel will release
some prisoners (and replace them with others) and the US will give more
money to corrupt officials on all sides. The question is whether the only
two choices available to us are sitting around not doing anything or going
to fruitless unbalanced negotiations intended to liquidate Palestinian
rights? Do we really give up on resistance, on democratizing the PLO or on
freedom or on human rights? Below are some news showing that the BDS
movement is working thanks to global and local activists even as it is not
supported by Mahmoud Abbas and high level officials who continue to meet
and normalize with Israeli officials (the last was a high level meeting
with Likud and Shas leadesr at the PLO headquarters).
So that we are reminded who we are dealing with: Netanyahu, caught
of-camera speaking his mind (not hasbara) about how he scuttled peace etc
http://youtu.be/3-5hUG6Os68
Despite heavy Israeli pressure, the EU published new guidelines asking all
Eropean entities not to deal with any Israeli entity that works in the
areas occupied in 1967. Future agreements between the European Union and
Israel must include the explicit exclusion of Jewish settlements in the
West Bank or East Jerusalem, according to a new EU directive described by
an Israeli official as an "earthquake". This include the illegally annexed
Golan and Jerusalem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/eu-israel-settlement-exclusion-clause
Consensus wisdom: The boycott of Israel is working: The only way to stop
its spread is to end the occupation, say a growing number of prominent
voices (none of whom, by the way, support the boycott).
http://972mag.com/consensus-wisdom-the-boycott-of-israel-is-working/74297/
[USA] BDS Campaigns Nationwide: Use the map below to connect with groups
working on specific BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns.
You can also search groups by state and resources they offer. If you would
like your group's campaigns included, please email Ramah Kudaimi at
membership@endtheoccupation.org
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=3383
Kairos Palestine strongly condemns the planned displacement, dispossession
and eviction of tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouin citizens of Israel
http://www.kairospalestine.ps/sites/default/Documents/Letter%20of%20Condemnation%20-%20Pra
wer%20Plan.pdf
[action needed] Announcing the launch of the Freedom Stitchers project
to create self-sufficiency for marginalized and jobless women in Gaza.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freedom-stitchers
Stop the racist Prawer-Begin plan to ethniocally cleanse Palestinians of
the Negev
http://adalah.org/eng/?mod=articles&ID=1589
A visit to Al-Araqib, the desert village that refuses to be erased by Alice
Rothchild on July 1, 2013
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/desert-village-refuses.html
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
http://qumsiyeh.org
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