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March 2000 29 March 2000 Syrian Purges Pave Way For Bashar -- A Stratfor Report Power Struggle Brewing between Sons of Saddam - a Stratfor Report The Sleeping Giant News Reports Investigators found radio-controlled detonators, explosives, ammunition, raw material for bomb-making and nerve gas hidden at a farm outside Amman. Get the low-down at Sleeping Giant News B'Tselem Reports The High Court of Justice decided today that the hundreds of Palestinians who were expelled from their homes in St. Mount Hebron can return to live in their homes and graze their herds on their land. This interim decision will remain in force until an investigation is conducted by a person appointed by the litigants. More info at http://www.btselem.org On March 27, 2000 THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITIONS (ICAHD) announced a vigil at the Supreme Court on Wednesday March 29, when the court will hear the case of Palestinian families expelled from the cave-homes in the South Mount Hebron area last October/November. This expulsion has been termed a "crime against humanity" by writer David Grossman, and can be reversed with enough pressure on the Israeli government. Ariga offered users a background piece on the expulsion, including a sample letter to send to Prime Minister Barak about the case. March 15 2000 An Open Message to the Israeli and Jewish Public We, the undersigned Palestinian intellectuals, address to the Israeli and Jewish public this message clarifying our point of view on the current peace process. We are concerned that what is being contrived is not peace, but the seeds of future wars. The majority of Palestinians, including the undersigned, believed that the time was ripe for concluding with the Israelis a historic agreement that would allow us to live together finally in peace in one land, despite the injustice, suffering and dispossession inflicted on us over the decades by the Israeli side... To the full text March 10 2000 A new human rights/peace group, New Family, has been added to the index at http://www.ariga.com/humanrights/newfamily.htm And a new poem at Ariga: Visions: Poetry: MIGRATING BIRDS by Elisha Porat March 6 2000 With great sadness and shocked disbelief Ami Isserof reports that Hussein Issa, beloved friend and founder, director and principal of the Hope Flowers School in El Khader, Palestine, has died of heart disease. "According to information received from the community of Hope Flowers friends, Hussein died in an Israeli hospital on March 5, 2000, where he had been transferred after hospitalization in Bethlehem in poor and deteriorating condition. Hussein was but 51 years old. "Hussein devoted his life to teaching peace, democracy and coexistence. He grew up in the Deheisheh refugee camp. From these impossible beginnings that might foster hate and despair in another person, he emerged to become a renowned educator and fighter for peace. He built the El-Amal (Hope Flowers) school beginning in 1989 to show Palestinians the way to a better future, and travelled around the world to lecture on peace education. "Hussein fought fearlessly against the forces of darkness surrounding him on all sides, building his school and carrying on his work in the face of great financial need as well as the opposition of the authorities. Despite his illness, he was tireless. He frequently and jokingly welcomed me and others to "the club" - the club of those who go without in order to pursue the cause. He was never afraid to stand up to physical threats as well. "I flatter myself by thinking that from the first moment that I met Hussein, less than two years ago, it seemed to me that we were destined to become fast friends and soul-mates. Perhaps he made this impression on everyone. My participation in MidEast Web came about in large part because of the desire to help Hope Flowers school, not only as a good cause in the abstract, but out of admiration for the personality, dedication and warmth of Hussein. I had hoped to collaborate with him in raising funds for peace education projects. Now we shall not get the chance. "We all regret that we did not spend more time and effort helping Hussein with Hope Flowers. Now that he is gone, we shall build a living memorial to him by shielding and nurturing the small candle of hope that he lit, and making the light of peace education and brotherly love glow brightly in our corner of the world. "All friends of peace in the Middle East mourn the loss of a teacher and beloved brother." Ami Isseroff MidEast Web Rehovoth, Israel Ariga Note: Ami Isserof is the editor publisher of PeaceWatch at http://www.ariga.com/peacewatch. March 3 2000 The Gush Shalom Message this week is particularly sad: WHAT A PARLIAMENT! This week's Knesset vote about the Golan referendum cannot be dismissed as just another manipulation by party hacks. It must be taken for what it is: a vote against peace. As such it will be understood in the Arab countries and, indeed, throughout the world. This is much more than a ploy to exclude the Arab citizens from the democratic process. This time a dirty trick has been employed to prevent the majority, which wants peace, from deciding the issue. No such law exists in any democratic country. The decisive vote has been turned over to people who have emigrated from Israel long ago, citizens who have no interest whatsoever in the fate of the state and to the indifferent who do not vote at all. All these will be counted as having voted against peace. A state that has such a parliament does not need enemies. National Boycott of the Products of the Settlements! Visit the Gush Shalom site at http://www.gush-shalom.org Here is a stunning interview with Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme in which he explains the difficulty of diagnosing psychosis when the situation istelf is psychotic. Something the politicans on all sides of the conflict should read. The text was sent to Ariga from the Compassionate Listening Project New poetry at Ariga: Beth Laura O'Leary finds a blessing
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