[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [GushShalom] Ominous year's end / Action requested re
imprisoned COs
Alfred Kagan
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Thu Jan 2 09:29:25 CST 2003
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>Dec. 31, 2002 - five minutes to twelve
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>International release
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>[] Ominous year's end
> Banning of Arab Knesset Members / Random brutality in Hebron
>[] Immediate action requested re imprisoned COs
>
>[] Ominous year's end
> Banning of Arab Knesset Members / Random brutality in Hebron
>
>- Tonight, the Central Elections Committee is on its way to ban
>Knesset Member Azmi Bishara
>and his Balad Party - one of the three main parties active among
>Israel's Arab citizens - from
>running in the current elections. The decision is based on
>"evidence" provided by spies and
>agent provocateurs of the Israeli Security Services - evidence whose
>veracity was in no way
>checked in these proceedings.
>- This followed upon the same comittee banning Knesset Member Ahmed
>Tibi and the
>conspicious non-banning of the notorious racist Baruch Marzel, an
>outspoken advocate of the
>wholesale expulsion of Palestinians. Unless these scandalous
>decisions are overturned by the
>Supreme Court, it would mean that Israel's Araab citizens would lose
>much of the (always
>limited) political rights they had, while anti-Arab racists are
>given a free run of the Israeli
>political system. It could also mean a large-scale abstention by
>Arab voters in the the January
>28 elections, which would of course leave no further doubt of
>Sharon's re-election.
>- On the same day, we got from Palestinian friends in Hebron a
>gruesome tale of a 18-yeaar old
>youth being taken for "a ride" on an Israeli police jeep, from which
>his horribly battered dead
>body was thrown two hours later. The B'tselem human rights
>organization, which started
>investigating the case, got the clear idea that it was a case of
>random brutalit.
>- Also today: the decision to deport from Israel the
>internationally-known British activist Angie
>Zelser, declared by Judge Ruth Eliaz to be "a danger to the state" -
>as it seems for no other
>reason then her humanitarian work among Palestinians, especially
>helping in the olive harvest
>in groves threatened by settlers.
>
>[] Immediate action requested re imprisoned COs
>
>The two longest-serving imprisoned CO's, Yonathan Ben-Artzi and Uri
>Ya'akoby, were informed
>a week ago that they would be interviewed by a military commission -
>which had been the way
>out of the army for many previous CO's. This morning - a day before
>the appointed time - they
>were informed that the interview had been cancelled, with no reason
>given. The two therefore,
>now face a seventh term, which may be followed by an eighth and a
>ninth, in effect an indefinite
>imprisonment, stretched out in installments of 28 to 35 days each.
>The present 18-year olds have the bad lack to come of age in a
>period of increased
>oppressiveness and intolerance. The refusniks are actually the
>"frontline soldiers" of the
>struggle for peace and deserve our support. This Saturday, there
>will be a Yesh Gvul
>demonstration in Athlit*, but there is something important which you
>can do now, straight from
>your computer.
>
>The fact that Ben Artzi and Ya'akobi were first promised access to
>the comission and then
>denied it may indicate divisions and hesitations within the military
>and politicasl establishment.
>Therefore, it may be effective to let the army get AS MANY PROTESTS
>AS POSSIBLE
>BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT SUNDAY (Jan. 5), when Ya'akobi is likely to
>face a new order to
>enlist and a new trial for his refusal. We ask you to send protests
>to Colonel Deborah Chassid,
>commander of the army's Induction Center at Tel Hashomer - who on
>previous occasions was
>directly responsible for the CO's "instant trials" (held in camera
>without lawyers or witnesses).
>You can you use the sample letter or compose your own.
>
>Deborah Chassid
>Commander of Induction Base, Tel-Hashomer
>Military Postal Code 02718, IDF
>Israel.
>Fax: +972-3-7376052
>
>Copies of appeals in can also be sent to:
>
>Head of Incompatibles Unit
>Induction Base (Baqum)
>Tel-Hashomer
>Fax: ++972-3-737-67-05.
>
>You can use the following sample or make your own text:
>
>To:
>Deborah Chassid
>Commander of Induction Base, Tel-Hashomer
>
>
>Dear Madam
>
>We got the worrying news that the invitiation to Yoni Be-Artzi and
>Uri Ya'acobi - to appear
>before the Incompatibility Commission - was withdrawn.
>
>Over the past months, you and your subordinate officers have condemned young
>conscientious objectors to repeated terms of imprisonment. I urge you to
>allow them, after 100 days or more, to see at last the commission,
>which in the
>past provided discharge for conscientious objectors. There is no
>justice to keeping serious
>youngsters behind bars indefinitely. No amount of imprisonment will
>convince them to change
>their deeply held convictions, for which several of them were
>already recognized as Prisoners of
>Conscience by Amnesty International.
>
>The four longest serving COs:
>
>Yonathan Ben Artzi, 6th sentence, total of 161 daysí imprisonment;
>Uri Yaakobi - 6th sentence, total: 133 daysí imprisonment;
>Dror Boimel - 5th sentence, total: 119 daysí imprisonment;
>Yoni Yehezkiel ñ 4th sentence, total: 98 daysí imprisonment.
>
>
>[your name / profession / address]
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>Tel Aviv (Arlozoroff/Namir) 11:15
>Contact: Peretz Kidron" <cherryk at zahav.net.il>
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