[NYTr] Gush Shalom: While the mouth speaks peace, the hands conduct war

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Gush Shalom - Oct 9, 2007
http://www.gush-shalom.org

While the mouth speaks peace, the hands conduct war 

Provocative Ma’aleh Adumim land confiscation lays bare the government
intentions. In government of the two Ehuds, the mouth speaks peace, the
hands conduct war and oppression

“In the government of the two Ehuds, the mouth of Ehud Olmert spews
peace cliches in highly-publicized meetings with Abu Mazen, but the
hands of Ehud Barak conduct ceaseless war and oppression: night raids
and detentions deep into the Palestinian cities, daily killings in the
Gaza Strip and outright rejection of any Palestinian cease-fire
proposal, and ceaseless extension of settlements and robbery of
Palestinian lands” says Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc. 

“The latest example is the confiscation of 1100 dunums of the lands of
Abu Dis, Arab al-Sawahra, Nebi Musa and Talhin Alhamar. Not only does
this confiscation directly rob many villagers of their sole livelihood,
but its main purpose is to facilitate the big annexation plan known as
‘E-1’, which is aimed at linking the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim with
Jerusalem and cut the West Bank in two.  The present confiscations are
aimed at constructing ‘a Palestinian bypass road’ which would push the
Palestinian traffic between Bethlehem and Ramallah deep into the desert
and effectively bar them from the central part of the West Bank. With
such policies enacted by the government, the famous Annapolis
Conference is emptied of all meaning, long before it convenes.”

Contact: Gush Shalom spokesperson Adam Keller, adam at gush-shalom.org

See:  
Akiva Eldar: IDF orders seizure of Arab land near East Jerusalem, 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/910763.html