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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who arrived on Tuesday for talks in Israel, expressed the impression that Israel is no longer interested in a peace agreement. Previously there had been a large peace movement and a left that had stood for peace. He had the impression that "the desire for peace has completely vanished, as if the people no longer believe in it." That ensures that Israel has a kind of "witch hunt" against anti-government statements that "getting to feel very left academics in universities. I refer to this as a McCarthyite campaign," said David Newman, professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University of Beersheva, in conversation with journalist Jonathan Cook on groups that specifically denounce professors. On the website of IsraCampus (www.isracampus.org.il) the photos were published of 100 dissident professors and academic as a "fifth column called". One of them is Anat Matar, a professor of philosophy from the University of Tel Aviv. "Our society has become somewhat fascist," Cook cites him in his report.

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Israeli provocation - Tel Aviv wants to build in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, 900 new housing units. Project triggers global protests

By Karin Leukefeld
19.11.2009

A total of 900 new housing units will build Israel in the Gilo settlement in East Jerusalem. This was announced on Tuesday the Interior Ministry and thus triggered worldwide outrage. The settlement is located on 1967 land occupied by Israel, which formerly belonged to Bethlehem and was annexed in violation of international law. 40,000 settlers currently live there. From Israel displaced residents now living in the nearby Aida refugee camp. The settlements provoked violent resistance and a lawsuit on the Palestinian side. Both failed to stop the construction. Meanwhile, the Israeli wall nearby villages such as the location Budrus has completely sealed off to "the settlement of Gilo" to protect. Even non-violent resistance against the wall, was unsuccessful. The town of Beit Jala (12000 inhabitants) is now threatened not only by the expanding settlement of Gilo, but also of two other settlements.

The Israeli announcement of snubbing the U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, who had repeatedly called for a building freeze in the settlement of Gilo. Gilo is not a settlement, but "a suburb of Jerusalem," according to its official position. The mayor of Gilo, Moshe Ben Shushan, rejected "interference in Israeli matter": "For me it was never the Gilo settlement." Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli government said that would be built in the annexed areas further. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "is prepared to act with maximum restraint in the expansion (of settlements) to" so Regev. But this applies only to the West Bank. "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and will" remain so, Regev reiterated the government's position, which is internationally rejected. Pursue the strategy to separate Israel, East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank, said the Al-Jazeera's correspondent in Israel, Jacky Rowland. With the expansion should be "900 new facts are created," with which the hearing is to be legitimized all of Jerusalem.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the decision and pointed out that the country was built on the Gilo had, since 1967 occupied Palestinian territory. Criticism also came from Robert Gibbs, spokesman for the White House in Washington, who "was appalled." The spokesman of President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that Israel was not interested in peace and wanted to ensure "that the international efforts for peace and the two-state" solution to fail. The "permanent acceptance of the international community for such activities endanger the stability of the region, Israel and the foundations for the peace that we seek," added Rudeineh. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who arrived on Tuesday for talks in Israel, expressed the impression that Israel is no longer interested in a peace agreement. Previously there had been a large peace movement and a left that had stood for peace. He had the impression that "the desire for peace has completely vanished, as if the people no longer believe in it."

That ensures that Israel has a kind of "witch hunt&