SJPUPDATES#6 Protest Israeli General visiting Auckland

Kia ora all,
In this update>>>>
(A) Protest Israeli General Moshe Yaalon visiting Auckland
(B) News, opinion and analysis from the web

(A) >>>>>Protest Israeli General Moshe Yaalon visiting Auckland>>>>>

Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon is currently touring Australia and will be coming to Wellington and Auckland. He is possibly one of the highest ranking military experts to visit New Zealand in the last 10 years. This is the same man who told Haaretz newspaper:

“The Palestinian threat harbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed. There are all kinds of solutions to cancer. Some say it’s necessary to amputate organs but at the moment I am applying chemotherapy.”

Moshe Ya’alon is known as the ‘butcher of Qana’ for his role as head of Israeli Army intelligence when they deliberately bombed the Qana UN compound in 1996, killing 100.

A protest outside his speech has been organised by  Students for Justice in Palestine and the Palestine Human Rights Campaign.

Support the protest – War criminals, like Ya’alon are not welcome in Aotearoa-New Zealand!
When: 6.45pm, Tuesday 28th November
Where: AA (Alexander Astor) Hall, Kadimah College, Greys Ave  (Opposite YMCA, near Pitt St. Intersection)

(B)>>>>>News, opinion and analysis from the web>>>>>>
1) Use of Human shields continues in Gaza
2)25 year old Palestinian shot for protesting for IDF’s treatment of women.
3)Video: Gaza’s reality.
4) 40% of settlements built on Arab land, study finds.
5)UN condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza strip
6)Hollow visions of Palestine’s future.

1)Use of human shields continues in Gaza
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serve as human shields to protect a home of a targeted terror operative. \n
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid\u003d1162378435257&pagename\u003dJPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull \n

2) 25-year-old Palestinian shot for protesting IDF\’s treatment of women
A critically wounded Palestinian youth is hospitalized at Beilinson, allegedly after Israeli soldiers shot at him for protesting their treatment of women. Heitham Yassin, \n
25 years old, has been under heavy sedation and on a respirator since the November 4 incident.
\nhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789513.html

3) Gaza\’s reality(Video):
\nhttp://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction\u003dvids.individual&videoID\u003d1380469430

4) 40% of settlements built on Arab land, study finds
A new study conducted by left-wing group Peace Now has found that approximately 40 percent of settlements, including long-standing communities, are built on private Palestinian land and not on state-owned land.  In a press conference held in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the \n
group presented a report asserting that out of a total area of 157,000 dunams used by West Bank settlements and industrial zones, 61,000 dunams (approximately 38 percent) are privately owned by Palestinians.
\nhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790748.html

5) UN condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza Strip
The top UN human rights official said yesterday Palestinians living in the Gaza strip had suffered "massive" human rights violations. Louise Arbour, the UN high commissioner for human rights, travelled to the town of Beit Hanoun, where Israeli artillery killed 18 members of a single family two weeks ago as they slept in their house. \n”,1] ); //–>Palestinian residents flocked to the home of a Hamas militant Monday to prevent the Israeli army from carrying out an airstrike. It was the latest instance of Palestinians volunteering to serve as human shields to protect a home of a targeted terror operative.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378435257&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

2) 25-year-old Palestinian shot for protesting IDF’s treatment of women

A critically wounded Palestinian youth is hospitalized at Beilinson, allegedly after Israeli soldiers shot at him for protesting their treatment of women. Heitham Yassin,
25 years old, has been under heavy sedation and on a respirator since the November 4 incident.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789513.html

3) Gaza’s reality(Video):
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1380469430

4) 40% of settlements built on Arab land, study finds
A new study conducted by left-wing group Peace Now has found that approximately 40 percent of settlements, including long-standing communities, are built on private Palestinian land and not on state-owned land.  In a press conference held in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the group presented a report asserting that out of a total area of 157,000 dunams used by West Bank settlements and industrial zones, 61,000 dunams (approximately 38 percent) are privately owned by Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790748.html

5) UN condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza Strip
The top UN human rights official said yesterday Palestinians living in the Gaza strip had suffered “massive” human rights violations. Louise Arbour, the UN high commissioner for human rights, travelled to the town of Beit Hanoun, where Israeli artillery killed 18 members of a single family two weeks ago as they slept in their house. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1952928

6) Hollow visions of Palestine\’s future \n
David Grossman\’s widely publicised speech at the annual memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin earlier this month has prompted some fine deconstruction of his "words of peace" from critics.
\nhttp://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6068.shtml

"Remember the solidarity shown to Palestine here and everywhere… and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights." – Edward Said, Palestinian/American historian/political commentator \n
http://www.ausjp.wordpress.com