Jan 6, 2011

#BDS: احذروا التطبيع: موزاييك... يا «سلام»!

"لا ضير في إعادة التأكيد أنّ المشروع الاستعماري الاستيطاني للكيان الصهيوني في المشرق العربي لا يكتمل بالهيمنة العسكرية والسياسية والاقتصادية. إن الهدف الأعلى لهذا المشروع هو تحوله من كيان غير شرعي وغير مقبول إلى كيان «طبيعي» ومقبول شعبياً. ولعل الخطورة تتضاعف إذا قُدِّم هذا الخطاب عبر العمل الإبداعي الذي يحفر عادةً في الوجدان العام للناس، ويشكّل خلفياتهم وأساساتهم الثقافية. هذا بالضبط ما يفعله مشروع «موزاييك» الذي أسّسه الأردني جميل سرّاج والإسرائيلية لي زيف ويتألّف من موسيقيين من الأردن

، وفلسطين، و«إسرائيل»، ولبنان. بعد تسجيلين، قدّمت الفرقة ورشة عام 2009 بعنوان «الموسيقى كأداة للتصالح والتواصل غير العنيف» لمشاركين من العراق، ولبنان، و«إسرائيل»، والأردن، وفلسطين، والجزائر، ومصر، والمغرب و... دبي!"
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#BDS: انخفاض صادرات إسرائيل إلى الأردن

"أظهرت أرقام وزارة الزراعة الأردنية أن استيراد الخضروات والفواكه من إسرائيل انخفض بشكل كبير خلال العام 2010، فيما حذر وزير الداخلية سعد هايل سرور من انه ستتم ملاحقة «مثيري الشغب» في معان أمس الأول غداة مقتل ثلاثة عمال على أيدي مجهولين.

وبحسب الأرقام، التي نشرتها صحيفة «الغد»، فقد «انخفضت المستوردات الأردنية من الخضار والفواكه الآتية من إسرائيل خلال العام الماضي بنسبة كبيرة، حيث استوردت 793 طنا من الخضار والفواكه، مقارنة بـ2768 طنا العام قبل الماضي». وتشير هذه الأرقام إلى انخفاض كبير في حجم الصادرات الإسرائيلية إلى الأردن، عما كانت عليه خلال الأعوام الماضية، حيث بلغ حجم واردات الأردن من الخضار والفواكه من إسرائيل 4300 طن في العام 2008، و11 ألف طن في العام 2007.



وبلغ حجم الصادرات الأردنية إلى إسرائيل من الخضار والفواكه خلال العام الماضي 5224 طنا، بلغت حصة الخضار منها 1701 طن، فيما بلغت حصة الفواكه 3523 طنا. ومن أبرز الصادرات الأردنية إلى إسرائيل الزيتون، حيث بلغ حجم صادراته 3462 طنا، فيما بلغ حجم صادرات التمر 61 طنا فقط خلال العام الماضي.

وكانت وزارة الزراعة الأردنية ألزمت العام الماضي التجار الأردنيين المتعاملين مع إسرائيل وضع علامة «منتج إسرائيلي» على المحاصيل الزراعية الإسرائيلية. وتدعو النقابات المهنية الأردنية الـ14 إلى مقاطعة المنتجات الإسرائيلية وخصوصا الفواكه والخضار. "


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#BDS: Bill being Drafted to Bar International Peace Activists from Entering Israel

Knesset Member Yariv Levin, of the right-wing Likud party, together with the pro-settlement group The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, are currently working on an “anti-subversive” bill aimed at anarchists and supporters of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).

If approved the law would allow Israel’s Interior Ministry to bar international activists from entering Israel. The law would apply restrictions to anyone who acts against Israel, denies the Holocaust, works to boycott Israel and/or attempts to place Israeli leaders on international trial for what they did in the line of duty, reported Arutz Sheva.

“The suggested legislation would apply to anyone who incites against the country, carries out verbal or physical attacks, organizes hostile activities or tries to interfere with foreign diplomatic and trade relations,” the news daily reported.

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#BDS: "Spin-off is great news for Motorola Israel"

"The spin-off is great news for Motorola Israel," Motorola Solutions Israel CEO Shimon Dick told "Globes", "because Motorola Solutions is expected to increase its investment in the technologies in which Israel has accumulated decades of world-class experience and expertise. This spin-off is therefore a lever for the growth of activity in Israel."
Work at Motorola Inc. began today as two separate companies: Motorola Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI), which will continue to develop, manufacture, and market mobile devices. The spin-off of the mobile division came after over two years of preparations aimed at refocusing the two companies on their core businesses.
Dick said, "We were too dispersed. This spin-off restores our focus. At the global level, Israel has a respected place, and the development center here is one of Motorola's largest in the world. We do a lot of innovative work here that I cannot comment on."

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#BDS: Disney invests in Haifa entertainment complex

"The city of Haifa is already on the tourist map of Israel, but now it's likely to get an even bigger chunk of the market with its new Disney-style theme park.
The Walt Disney Company investment arm Shamrock Holdings and the Israeli New Lineo cinema chain have announced plans to build a $168 million amusement park and a multiplex movie center in the port city.
The entertainment complex is said to open in 2013. It will include a 30,000 square meter amusement park and a 50,000 square meter compound with shops, 25 movie houses, and four theater auditoriums.
"The project, which is still in its development stages, reflects our goal of providing quality entertainment for the people of Israel," Avi Edery, Deputy CEO of New Lineo Cinema, told a news conference."
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#BDS: Macy Gray, Performing in Israel is Already Political – Stand for Human Rights and Cancel!

"Dear Macy Gray,
We are a group of Israeli citizens who support the Palestinian Call [1] for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Israel, as a means of bringing to an end Israel’s decades-long systematic oppression of the Palestinian people.
We are writing to you today to share with you our deep concern about your upcoming shows in Israel and urge you to cancel them. We know that you performed in Israel before, but some artists who come here are not fully aware of their performance’s implications when they choose to do so. In recent months, artists such as Carlos Santana, Gil Scott Heron, Elvis Costello, Gorillaz Sound System, the Klaxons, the Pixies, Devendra Banhart, Faithless, Leftfield, and Tindersticks cancelled their scheduled shows in Tel-Aviv after familiarizing themselves with the current socio-political reality in Palestine/Israel. Film stars Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman, and film director Mike Leigh cancelled their scheduled appearances in Israel as well.
In 1948 Israel expelled and confiscated the land and property of about 800,000 Palestinians. They and their descendants are still denied return and compensation as sanctioned by the UN General Assembly Resolution 194. The remaining Palestinians have been put for years under martial law, and until now, constituting 20% of Israel’s citizens, they are subjected to a systematic discrimination in violation of international law, and specifically, the crime of apartheid.
For decades, Israel has been keeping a population of four million Palestinians under martial law, and in the case of Gaza – a life-costing military siege. Palestinians living under Israeli military control have to endure house demolitions, the annexation of their agricultural fields and orchards, unlawful military invasions to their homes, and systematic denial of access to adequate medical services, high education and work; their villages are surrounded by checkpoints and a 26 ft. high wall, quashing their right to move freely, sometime even within their own villages. In the context of your show, this also means that a Palestinian girl, a fan of your music living under Israeli occupation, is not allowed by law – and denied by walls, fences and checkpoints – to come see you perform in Tel-Aviv."
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