From seth at resist.ca Fri Jun 2 10:21:56 2006 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:21:56 -0400 Subject: [Sethreports] Welcome - Post#1 Message-ID: <7231ADB8-4026-4FE3-83C2-068D142D4BBB@resist.ca> Hello and Welcome to this list! Over the next few months I will be posting audio reports, written articles, and sounds from the Occupied Territory intended to accurately reflect the reality of the situation in Palestine. For more information, or to send questions, comments and criticisms contact me at seth at resist.ca Reports are for non-profit use only and can be distributed or rebroadcast at any date. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- Post table of contents: 1. Update on the struggle in Bil'in 2. IMEMC podcast 3. Callout for anyone interested in donating a VoIP box 4. Bil'in Report embedded with pictures for your viewing pleasure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- 1. On May 28th 2006 the Outpost, built by the residents of Bil'in on the Israeli side of the wall, was partially burned to the ground in a massive fire believed to have been set by the nearby settlers of Moudin Illit. This is not the first time the Outpost has been attacked. Two months ago the settlers of Moudin Illit threw rocks at the Bil'in residents and Internationals who occupied the Outpost, and in a separate incident a Palestinian flag was burned (pieces of which were later found at the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) guard-post nearby). The village has held a demonstration at the wall every friday for 15, almost 16, months now. Each demonstration has been met with violence and arrests that have kept the people here in a constant rotation of jail time and hospitalization. They are currently making their case to reclaim their expropriated land in the Israeli Supreme Court, although there is no precedent for the kind of success they are hoping for. The Israeli Supreme Courts has continually ruled in contradiction to the International Court of Justice on matters regarding the annexation wall and the settlements. According to many of the people I have talked to here, Bil'in has become a kind of symbol for non-violent resistance in Palestine. Their persistence and endurance in continually confronting the wall that separates them from their land remains unshaken even while under the most intense repression. However, while Bil'in remains a symbol of the non-violent resistance in Palestine, it is continually in danger of becoming a symbol for something else: the failure and hopelessness of non-violent resistance under the longest and possibly most brutal occupation in the world. Wagi (wa-gee), a longtime Bil'in resident who I met at the Outpost spoke to me about this problem. Wagi has disabled son, who was shot with a "dum dum" bullet by an Israeli soldier while at a protest against the wall. The bullet shattered his spine. Another of his sons was shot in the shoulder while sitting down during a raid of Wagi's house, and a third is in prison for three months after attending a non-violent protest against the wall in Bil'in. While he continues to be committed to non-violent resistance, he spoke to me about his worry that the youth, including his sons, would abandon non-violent resistance as the consequences are often just as dire as those of picking up a gun. This seems to also be true for internationals, considering last weeks demonstration nearly claimed the life of Phil Reese from Australia. As Wagi put it - if people are not allowed to demonstrate peacefully, then what other option do they have but to become violent (paraphrasing)? It is a difficult question to answer, and one that remains a matter of personal choice two generations, and two intifadas, into this occupation. Wagi was arrested one week after our conversation at the friday demonstration against the wall and is now in prison. The shelter we took at the outpost to have our conversation is now burned to the ground. And the next demonstration is on friday. For more information on the history of the Outpost, you can find an audio report here: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/9843.php You can also find PICTURES embedded in a special enhanced podcast available for subscription in the itunes music store (for free of course). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 2. IMEMC has created a podcast now accessible through the iTunes music store. We at the IMEMC would like to discourage the purchasing of any iTunes music store products, as the global ipod/iTunes hegemony is highly revolting. However, making this podcast accessible through iTunes (for free) has provided two main advantages. 1 - It makes subscription to the podcast very simple and user friendly and 2 - it allows us to embed pictures into our podcasts which you can view in the iTunes video window while the podcast plays. We are still in the trail stage - so it is not certain to be an ongoing venture, but keep an eye out and I will send more in the next update. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 3. CALLOUT FOR A VOICE OVER IP BOX The IMEMC is in desperate need of a VoIP box. We are trying to set up a phone number where people in Palestine with news from their village can call directly into our studio and record an mp3 report on what's going on. This would provide a very valuable network for coordinating the daily news briefs. It is also, possibly, a preliminary step to IMEMC getting an open wire open publishing component to the site. It's like going indymedia without the whole indymedia brand name thing. People could phone in short audio reports for our site without having to have a computer, or software, or anything that is usually required to upload news to an indymedia site. All anyone needs is a phone, which almost everyone here has. Sound exciting? Have a VoIP box in the closet? Want to contribute funds towards the purchase of a VoIP box? please let me know... seth at resist.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- 4. Keep an eye out for an IMEMC podcast available through the iTunes music store. I have posted it, but it has yet to appear... I'm sure it will be up soon. The iTunes version of the report below is embedded with pictures of the whole demonstration, and of Abdullah and the Outpost etc.. to try and get a better picture of what I'm talking about. In case you've missed this report, or want some more background on the Outpost, I am including the previous report on Bil'in. Happy listening. From Palestine: A report on the West Bank Village of Bil'in Produced by Seth Porcello with the IMEMC.org production assistance from Ghassan Bannoura ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - To download or listen to this report: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/9843.php OR http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18208 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Friday May 12 Bil'in held it's weekly non-violent protest against the occupation, and against the wall that separates them from their agricultural land. Twelve people injured in this demonstration and one sustained life threatening injuries. Phil Reess from Australia was shot in the head by a rubber coated steel bullet which resulted in a brain hemorrhage. He had been filming the demonstration. BJ Lund from Denmark was also shot in the head and suffered a fracture in his jaw. Both are currently recovering. The people of Bil'in have been demonstrating every friday for the last 15 months, confronting the wall and the army, that stand between them and their land. But the resistance here in Bil'in has taken on many different forms. In December 2005, the people of Bil'in decided to do something never before done in the struggle against the anexation of Palestinian land. The Popular Committe Against the Wall in Bil'in decided that in order to oppose directly the continued construction of this settlement, they would build a settlement of their own, on their land. On December 15th, under cover of darkness a one room, one window, house was built on the Israeli side of the wall, approximately 100 meters from the settlement of Moudin Ilit. This small one room house built is still standing today, as it's demolition is tied up in the courts. The Israeli High Court is currently ruling on the legality of the Moudin Ilit settlement in Israeli law, and thus if the settlement is illegal, the house must remain. And so it does, under constant watch of Bil'in residents and internationals who stay there. There has never been a case in the Israeli High Court that has successfully challenged a settlement under Israeli Law, according to Michael Sfaoudi. But these legal challenges are only one avenue through which the people of Bil'in have taken their struggle, and it will surely continue regardless of what the Israeli High Court rules. This Report will address the history of the struggle in Bil'in, as well as the current methods of resistance. Includes interviews with: Abdullah Aburahmeh of the Popular Committee Against the Wall Muhammed Al Katib also with the PCAW and resident in Bil'in Michael Sfaodi the Israeli lawyer representing Bil'in in court. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seth at resist.ca Wed Jun 7 03:04:39 2006 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:04:39 -0400 Subject: [Sethreports] Report from the West Bank city of Jenin Message-ID: <50395E01-843F-4F28-AD09-23A26A216B30@resist.ca> ---------------------------------------------------------- Report from the West Bank city of Jenin: New Fateh led force created in the West Bank To download or listen to this report go to- http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10106.php OR For archived reports: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18421 ----------------------------------------------------------- For more audio reports, articles, and our daily news from Palestine visit www.imemc.org. In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday. The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains: This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. The security systems alone do their tasks, and yesterday as we positioned this force we didn't perform any formal tasks on the street at all. We didn't stop cars or arrest any people. We are a force intended to assist the authority legal system whenever we are called for duty by the general commander of the Palestinian forces in Jenin or the police commander General. We will be soldiers who follow the orders of the police commander. We started talks with President Mahmoud Abbas to enlist this force within the Palestinian police system. Since the creation of the force on saturday, the west bank has already seen a parallel Fateh force created in Tulkarem. I asked Atta Abu Rumeileh if he thought this trend might lead to violence in the West Bank of the kind already experienced in Gaza. We will not allow anyone to extend the crisis in Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We will prevent any organization, Hamas, Fateh which we are members of, or any other organization from causing trouble or crisis on the Palestinian street, the street cannot bear any more trouble. This force is not an alternative to the authority. This authority is the peoples' authority and we do respect it, and respect its legitimate institutions, and we are in communication with local leaders of Fateh in the West Bank to enable dispatching this force wherever there are attempts to make troubles or create illegal forces in the West Bank. Whenever they want to talk, they have to talk in one language and not claim that the force in Gaza is legal, and this force in Jenin is illegal. We are a force that does not claim to be legal, but will be legal as we become part of the Palestinian police. We are a force to assist the law, order, and the national project of independence, and national unity. While both Hamas and Israel have expressed alarm at the creation of these forces, neither has released any public statements indicating that there will be any retaliation. Still, what role these forces will come to play both in palestinian politics and day to day life is a matter of some concern. Grisan Andoni, Director of Bir Zeit University public relations office and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee shares his opinion on the new force, and contextualized these developments within the larger history of palestinian political oppositions. From the west bank city of jenin, I'm seth porcello with the IMEMC.org in palestine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seth.porcello at mail.mcgill.ca Wed Jun 7 08:27:31 2006 From: seth.porcello at mail.mcgill.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:27:31 -0400 Subject: [Sethreports] Report from the West Bank city of Jenin Message-ID: Report from the West Bank city of Jenin: New Fateh led force created in the West Bank To download or listen to this report go to- http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10106.php OR For archived reports: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18421 ----------------------------------------------------------- For more audio reports, articles, and our daily news from Palestine visit www.imemc.org. In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday. The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains: This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. The security systems alone do their tasks, and yesterday as we positioned this force we didn't perform any formal tasks on the street at all. We didn't stop cars or arrest any people. We are a force intended to assist the authority legal system whenever we are called for duty by the general commander of the Palestinian forces in Jenin or the police commander General. We will be soldiers who follow the orders of the police commander. We started talks with President Mahmoud Abbas to enlist this force within the Palestinian police system. Since the creation of the force on saturday, the west bank has already seen a parallel Fateh force created in Tulkarem. I asked Atta Abu Rumeileh if he thought this trend might lead to violence in the West Bank of the kind already experienced in Gaza. We will not allow anyone to extend the crisis in Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We will prevent any organization, Hamas, Fateh which we are members of, or any other organization from causing trouble or crisis on the Palestinian street, the street cannot bear any more trouble. This force is not an alternative to the authority. This authority is the peoples' authority and we do respect it, and respect its legitimate institutions, and we are in communication with local leaders of Fateh in the West Bank to enable dispatching this force wherever there are attempts to make troubles or create illegal forces in the West Bank. Whenever they want to talk, they have to talk in one language and not claim that the force in Gaza is legal, and this force in Jenin is illegal. We are a force that does not claim to be legal, but will be legal as we become part of the Palestinian police. We are a force to assist the law, order, and the national project of independence, and national unity. While both Hamas and Israel have expressed alarm at the creation of these forces, neither has released any public statements indicating that there will be any retaliation. Still, what role these forces will come to play both in palestinian politics and day to day life is a matter of some concern. Grisan Andoni, Director of Bir Zeit University public relations office and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee shares his opinion on the new force, and contextualized these developments within the larger history of palestinian political oppositions. From the west bank city of jenin, I'm seth porcello with the IMEMC.org in palestine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Report from the West Bank city of Jenin (Seth Porcello) 2. Report from the West Bank city of Jenin (Seth Porcello) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:04:39 -0400 From: Seth Porcello Subject: [Sethreports] Report from the West Bank city of Jenin To: CKUT Community News Collective , sethreports at lists.resist.ca Message-ID: <50395E01-843F-4F28-AD09-23A26A216B30 at resist.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ---------------------------------------------------------- Report from the West Bank city of Jenin: New Fateh led force created in the West Bank To download or listen to this report go to- http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10106.php OR For archived reports: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18421 ----------------------------------------------------------- For more audio reports, articles, and our daily news from Palestine visit www.imemc.org. In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday. The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains: This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. The security systems alone do their tasks, and yesterday as we positioned this force we didn't perform any formal tasks on the street at all. We didn't stop cars or arrest any people. We are a force intended to assist the authority legal system whenever we are called for duty by the general commander of the Palestinian forces in Jenin or the police commander General. We will be soldiers who follow the orders of the police commander. We started talks with President Mahmoud Abbas to enlist this force within the Palestinian police system. Since the creation of the force on saturday, the west bank has already seen a parallel Fateh force created in Tulkarem. I asked Atta Abu Rumeileh if he thought this trend might lead to violence in the West Bank of the kind already experienced in Gaza. We will not allow anyone to extend the crisis in Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We will prevent any organization, Hamas, Fateh which we are members of, or any other organization from causing trouble or crisis on the Palestinian street, the street cannot bear any more trouble. This force is not an alternative to the authority. This authority is the peoples' authority and we do respect it, and respect its legitimate institutions, and we are in communication with local leaders of Fateh in the West Bank to enable dispatching this force wherever there are attempts to make troubles or create illegal forces in the West Bank. Whenever they want to talk, they have to talk in one language and not claim that the force in Gaza is legal, and this force in Jenin is illegal. We are a force that does not claim to be legal, but will be legal as we become part of the Palestinian police. We are a force to assist the law, order, and the national project of independence, and national unity. While both Hamas and Israel have expressed alarm at the creation of these forces, neither has released any public statements indicating that there will be any retaliation. Still, what role these forces will come to play both in palestinian politics and day to day life is a matter of some concern. Grisan Andoni, Director of Bir Zeit University public relations office and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee shares his opinion on the new force, and contextualized these developments within the larger history of palestinian political oppositions. >From the west bank city of jenin, I'm seth porcello with the IMEMC.org in palestine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/sethreports/attachments/20060607/5889ca3c/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:27:31 -0400 From: Seth Porcello Subject: [Sethreports] Report from the West Bank city of Jenin To: sethreports at lists.resist.ca Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Report from the West Bank city of Jenin: New Fateh led force created in the West Bank To download or listen to this report go to- http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10106.php OR For archived reports: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18421 ----------------------------------------------------------- For more audio reports, articles, and our daily news from Palestine visit www.imemc.org. In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday. The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains: This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. The security systems alone do their tasks, and yesterday as we positioned this force we didn't perform any formal tasks on the street at all. We didn't stop cars or arrest any people. We are a force intended to assist the authority legal system whenever we are called for duty by the general commander of the Palestinian forces in Jenin or the police commander General. We will be soldiers who follow the orders of the police commander. We started talks with President Mahmoud Abbas to enlist this force within the Palestinian police system. Since the creation of the force on saturday, the west bank has already seen a parallel Fateh force created in Tulkarem. I asked Atta Abu Rumeileh if he thought this trend might lead to violence in the West Bank of the kind already experienced in Gaza. We will not allow anyone to extend the crisis in Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We will prevent any organization, Hamas, Fateh which we are members of, or any other organization from causing trouble or crisis on the Palestinian street, the street cannot bear any more trouble. This force is not an alternative to the authority. This authority is the peoples' authority and we do respect it, and respect its legitimate institutions, and we are in communication with local leaders of Fateh in the West Bank to enable dispatching this force wherever there are attempts to make troubles or create illegal forces in the West Bank. Whenever they want to talk, they have to talk in one language and not claim that the force in Gaza is legal, and this force in Jenin is illegal. We are a force that does not claim to be legal, but will be legal as we become part of the Palestinian police. We are a force to assist the law, order, and the national project of independence, and national unity. While both Hamas and Israel have expressed alarm at the creation of these forces, neither has released any public statements indicating that there will be any retaliation. Still, what role these forces will come to play both in palestinian politics and day to day life is a matter of some concern. Grisan Andoni, Director of Bir Zeit University public relations office and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee shares his opinion on the new force, and contextualized these developments within the larger history of palestinian political oppositions. >From the west bank city of jenin, I'm seth porcello with the IMEMC.org in palestine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/sethreports/attachments/20060607/12ff680e/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sethreports mailing list sethreports at lists.resist.ca https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sethreports End of sethreports Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2 ***************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Today's Topics: 1. Report from the West Bank city of Jenin (Seth Porcello) 2. Report from the West Bank city of Jenin (Seth Porcello) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:04:39 -0400 From: Seth Porcello Subject: [Sethreports] Report from the West Bank city of Jenin To: CKUT Community News Collective , sethreports at lists.resist.ca Message-ID: <50395E01-843F-4F28-AD09-23A26A216B30 at resist.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ---------------------------------------------------------- Report from the West Bank city of Jenin: New Fateh led force created in the West Bank To download or listen to this report go to- http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10106.php OR For archived reports: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18421 ----------------------------------------------------------- For more audio reports, articles, and our daily news from Palestine visit www.imemc.org. In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday. The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains: This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. The security systems alone do their tasks, and yesterday as we positioned this force we didn't perform any formal tasks on the street at all. We didn't stop cars or arrest any people. We are a force intended to assist the authority legal system whenever we are called for duty by the general commander of the Palestinian forces in Jenin or the police commander General. We will be soldiers who follow the orders of the police commander. We started talks with President Mahmoud Abbas to enlist this force within the Palestinian police system. Since the creation of the force on saturday, the west bank has already seen a parallel Fateh force created in Tulkarem. I asked Atta Abu Rumeileh if he thought this trend might lead to violence in the West Bank of the kind already experienced in Gaza. We will not allow anyone to extend the crisis in Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We will prevent any organization, Hamas, Fateh which we are members of, or any other organization from causing trouble or crisis on the Palestinian street, the street cannot bear any more trouble. This force is not an alternative to the authority. This authority is the peoples' authority and we do respect it, and respect its legitimate institutions, and we are in communication with local leaders of Fateh in the West Bank to enable dispatching this force wherever there are attempts to make troubles or create illegal forces in the West Bank. Whenever they want to talk, they have to talk in one language and not claim that the force in Gaza is legal, and this force in Jenin is illegal. We are a force that does not claim to be legal, but will be legal as we become part of the Palestinian police. We are a force to assist the law, order, and the national project of independence, and national unity. While both Hamas and Israel have expressed alarm at the creation of these forces, neither has released any public statements indicating that there will be any retaliation. Still, what role these forces will come to play both in palestinian politics and day to day life is a matter of some concern. Grisan Andoni, Director of Bir Zeit University public relations office and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee shares his opinion on the new force, and contextualized these developments within the larger history of palestinian political oppositions. >From the west bank city of jenin, I'm seth porcello with the IMEMC.org in palestine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/sethreports/attachments/20060607/5889ca3c/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:27:31 -0400 From: Seth Porcello Subject: [Sethreports] Report from the West Bank city of Jenin To: sethreports at lists.resist.ca Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Report from the West Bank city of Jenin: New Fateh led force created in the West Bank To download or listen to this report go to- http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10106.php OR For archived reports: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18421 ----------------------------------------------------------- For more audio reports, articles, and our daily news from Palestine visit www.imemc.org. In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday. The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains: This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. The security systems alone do their tasks, and yesterday as we positioned this force we didn't perform any formal tasks on the street at all. We didn't stop cars or arrest any people. We are a force intended to assist the authority legal system whenever we are called for duty by the general commander of the Palestinian forces in Jenin or the police commander General. We will be soldiers who follow the orders of the police commander. We started talks with President Mahmoud Abbas to enlist this force within the Palestinian police system. Since the creation of the force on saturday, the west bank has already seen a parallel Fateh force created in Tulkarem. I asked Atta Abu Rumeileh if he thought this trend might lead to violence in the West Bank of the kind already experienced in Gaza. We will not allow anyone to extend the crisis in Gaza Strip to the West Bank. We will prevent any organization, Hamas, Fateh which we are members of, or any other organization from causing trouble or crisis on the Palestinian street, the street cannot bear any more trouble. This force is not an alternative to the authority. This authority is the peoples' authority and we do respect it, and respect its legitimate institutions, and we are in communication with local leaders of Fateh in the West Bank to enable dispatching this force wherever there are attempts to make troubles or create illegal forces in the West Bank. Whenever they want to talk, they have to talk in one language and not claim that the force in Gaza is legal, and this force in Jenin is illegal. We are a force that does not claim to be legal, but will be legal as we become part of the Palestinian police. We are a force to assist the law, order, and the national project of independence, and national unity. While both Hamas and Israel have expressed alarm at the creation of these forces, neither has released any public statements indicating that there will be any retaliation. Still, what role these forces will come to play both in palestinian politics and day to day life is a matter of some concern. Grisan Andoni, Director of Bir Zeit University public relations office and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee shares his opinion on the new force, and contextualized these developments within the larger history of palestinian political oppositions. >From the west bank city of jenin, I'm seth porcello with the IMEMC.org in palestine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/sethreports/attachments/20060607/12ff680e/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sethreports mailing list sethreports at lists.resist.ca https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sethreports End of sethreports Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2 ***************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seth at resist.ca Thu Jun 15 07:42:10 2006 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:42:10 -0400 Subject: [Sethreports] Children and Resistance: When a Fighter Dies Who is Lost? Message-ID: Children and Resistance: A short radio documentary from the refugee camp in the West Bank City of Jenin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ To Listen or Download Visit: http://radio.indymedia.org and click or search Children and Resistance OR for .ogg file download at: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18554 For a complete archive of Reports from Palestine by Seth Porcello Visit: http://www.radio4all.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ When a fighter dies who is lost? When a young man ends his life strapped to a bomb who is left behind? And where do the new generations find a place from which to start? This short radio documentary looks at the relationship between children and the situations of conflict they inhabit. Here the line between external and internal violence is blurred as children in the Jenin refugee camp struggle to reconcile the death and loss they are surrounded by on a daily basis with the simple reality of childhood. These realities are filled not only with conflict but also with contradiction. I tried to fill this documentary with contradiction. In the northern west bank city of jenin, there is a road that leads from the large arabic coffee pot sculpture in the center of town straight to Haifa. In the past, jenin was one of the wealthiest cities in the west bank, but now, it is one of the poorest, and the road that leads to Haifa, is virtually abandoned. Like so many cities, towns, and villages here, Jenin has been isolated economically, as well as physically by the wall constructed by israel, and residents from the wealthy port city of Haifa, now in Israel, no longer bring to Jenin their disposable income. At present, Haifa's major contribution to Jenin consists of refugees who have filled the camp that borders the city to it's west. The Jenin Refugee camp is currently an autonomous territory in Palestine. It is governed and policed not by the Palestinian Authority, but internally, by the resistance. In 2002, the Israeli Army occupied Jenin in an attempt to wipe out this resistance, resulting in what some call the battle of Jenin, and others call the massacre of Jenin. A large portion of the camp was completely razed to the ground durring the invasion. And it is this invasion that so colors life in Jenin today. It was a new Nakba for the displaced descendants of 1948. Yet another generation has lost everything, and yet another generation will grow up in the chaos and aftermath of such a loss. This new generation is what concerns Abdullah Mousa, Director of the Torture Victims' Center in Jenin. Children's behavior has change completely, after the Jenin camp 2002 massacre. Their play became violent. They play the game of soldiers and fighters. (Palestinians Vs Israelis) So, unlike children in other countries they do not play fun games. The Palestinian children, and more specifically children of Jenin camp have gone through a very tough experience. This affected them very badly, and was also reflected on their personalities. They became more violent and very afraid and aggressive. There are many cases of in-voluntary urination in the camp. This also makes the children behave in such a way as to seem much older than they really are, in order to adopt with the environment around them. So, Palestinian children and especially children from the camp, are childless, because they did not live their childhood. Anybody in the world will be the same if subject to similar situation. Many children suffer from social phobia because of the physical violence they were subject to by the Israeli soldiers. Everybody knows that the victim acquires the morals of the victimizer, which means that Palestinian children are acquiring the morals and the behavior of the Israeli soldiers. Ahlam Nouah is 10 years old and lives in Jenin camp. I talked with her after school with the help of one of her teachers Mohaned Sarhmoud who translates. Interview with Girl at School in Jenin Camp.WAV After speaking to Ahlam, I wanted to talk to people who work with kids in Jenin. And as it seemed to be more and more of a reasonable question to ask, I wanted to try and understand the relationship between the kids and the resistance. So I sought out the children's theatre, which recently reopened in 2005. It was started in 1993 by Arna Mer-Khamis, a Jewish Israeli peace activist after she won the alternative nobel prize for her work in Jenin. She used the 50,000 dollars she received to build a children's theatre seating over 200 people, in the refugee camp. Arna died in 1995 but the theatre continued to run until 2002 when it was destroyed along with most of the camp itself durring Operation Defensive Shield. In 2005, local community leaders partnered with staff of the child rehabilitation center in the camp to start the theatre up again. Juliano Mer-Khamis, Arnas son, left a successful career in theatre in Israel to work on the project, now called Freedom Theatre, as it's director and currently run's speech therapy workshops and various other therapeutic drama programs. They don't have a new theatre yet, but according to Juliano, they will. I spoke with him in his car, as we were leaving Haifa. For more information on the freedom theatre visit their website www.thefreedomtheatre.org. Also - for an incredible documentary find "Arna's Children" directed by Juliano Mer-Khamis Reporting from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, I'm Seth Porcello with the IMEMC.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From seth at resist.ca Sat Jun 17 06:40:32 2006 From: seth at resist.ca (Seth Porcello) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:40:32 -0400 Subject: [Sethreports] Post #4 URGENT Message-ID: ---IMEMC NEEDS A VoIP BOX--- Hello everyone - We are initiating a very exciting project here at the IMEMC in Beit Sahour Palestine but we need a VoIP analog converter. Can you donate? We only need to raise 150 US dollars. -------------------------------------------- Please send donations to: Alden Penner 189 Rose-de-Lima Montreal QC,Canada, H4C 2L1 OR for all you Montrealers, just drop by this address - find Alden Penner and stuff some money in his pocket. NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL. Support the non-violent resistance in Palestine. -------------------------------------------- WHY WE NEED THE VoIP BOX: A VoIP analog converter allows anybody with a phone (cell phone or land line) to call our computer at our studio in Beit Sahour Palestine and record an MP3 message. We are currently setting up a network of community leaders, palestinian activists, village mayors, town councils, etc. all across palestine who would be able to phone in the news to our VoIP box whenever anything happens in their area. They would be able to give an up to date, real-time account of the news as it happens which we could then use to update our english language website, and in the semi-near future, create a live web stream of the phone-in reports for people to listen to. WHY THIS WILL WORK: Because this model of news reporting is one which is already in place in various forms all across palestine. Unlike our media in the west, Arab TV and Radio stations are always open to people who may have news to report or a personal story to tell. Many times people will have seen something particularly horrible at a checkpoint somewhere, and they will go to their local TV station and tell them about it. During the siege of the Nativity here in Bethlehem, TV stations were constantly informed of where the army was by local residents, so they would know where to film. This meant that if the army was going to do something, they would have to do it on camera. This is a very common tactic in the resistance here. I might also mention that nearly everyone in Palestine has a cell phone, which means that the potential for the breadth of coverage to be generated is enormous. NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL! If you are willing to donate, I would appreciate it if you would send me an email telling me how much you intend to donate. This will help me coordinate the purchase in a more timely manner. Much Love and resistance, Seth From jenka at indymedia.org Sun Jun 18 16:25:56 2006 From: jenka at indymedia.org (sing and dance) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:25:56 +0300 Subject: [Sethreports] Post #4 URGENT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20060619022556.56fa7886.jenka@indymedia.org> http://cgi.ebay.com/Linksys-Sipura-SPA-3000-Analog-VOIP-Adapter-FXS-FXO-SIP_W0QQitemZ9743356054QQcategoryZ99269QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:40:32 -0400 Seth Porcello wrote: > ---IMEMC NEEDS A VoIP BOX--- > > Hello everyone - We are initiating a very exciting project here at > the IMEMC in Beit Sahour Palestine but we need a VoIP analog > converter. Can you donate? We only need to raise 150 US dollars. > > -------------------------------------------- > Please send donations to: > Alden Penner > 189 Rose-de-Lima > Montreal QC,Canada, H4C 2L1 > > OR for all you Montrealers, just drop by this address - find Alden > Penner and stuff some money in his pocket. NO DONATION IS TOO > SMALL. Support the non-violent resistance in Palestine. > -------------------------------------------- > WHY WE NEED THE VoIP BOX: > A VoIP analog converter allows anybody with a phone (cell phone or > land line) to call our computer at our studio in Beit Sahour > Palestine and record an MP3 message. We are currently setting up a > network of community leaders, palestinian activists, village mayors, > town councils, etc. all across palestine who would be able to phone > in the news to our VoIP box whenever anything happens in their area. > They would be able to give an up to date, real-time account of the > news as it happens which we could then use to update our english > language website, and in the semi-near future, create a live web > stream of the phone-in reports for people to listen to. > WHY THIS WILL WORK: > Because this model of news reporting is one which is already in place > in various forms all across palestine. Unlike our media in the west, > Arab TV and Radio stations are always open to people who may have > news to report or a personal story to tell. Many times people will > have seen something particularly horrible at a checkpoint somewhere, > and they will go to their local TV station and tell them about it. > During the siege of the Nativity here in Bethlehem, TV stations were > constantly informed of where the army was by local residents, so they > would know where to film. This meant that if the army was going to > do something, they would have to do it on camera. This is a very > common tactic in the resistance here. I might also mention that > nearly everyone in Palestine has a cell phone, which means that the > potential for the breadth of coverage to be generated is enormous. > NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL! > If you are willing to donate, I would appreciate it if you would send > me an email telling me how much you intend to donate. This will help > me coordinate the purchase in a more timely manner. > > Much Love and resistance, > Seth > _______________________________________________ > sethreports mailing list > sethreports at lists.resist.ca > https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sethreports ----------------------------- http://www.jenkasjourneys.org -----------------------------