Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 1. januar 2005 / Time Line January 1, 2005
Version 3.5??/??/2005
Det amerikansk Maritime Secirity Programme udløber.
Programmet skal genforhandles og fortsættes.
01/01/2005
FNs 60 års jubilæum i år.
01/01/2005
Die Waffen nieder!
Bertha-von-Suttner Jahr, 2005/06.
01/01/2005
Albert Einstein år.
01/01/2005
Hundredåret for løsningen af unionskonflikten mellem
Sverige og Norge, 1905.
01/01/2005
Det er i år 60 år siden at de første atombomber
kastes over byerne Hiroshima og Nagasaki i Japan.
01/01/2005
Det er nu 20 måneder siden, at USAs præsident Bush
erklærede krigen i Irak for vundet.
01/01/2005
The British Freedom of Information Act 2000 enters into force.
You will be able to request information on current UK Defence
Procurement Agency equipment programmes by using this email
address:
DPA-FOI@dpa.mod.uk.
01/01/2005
Den militære værnepligt i Italien afskaffes.
01/01/2005
Nyt dansk forsvarsforlig 2004-2009 træder i kraft.
01/01/2005
Israel only accepts Jews who support settlements
An Israeli judge has agreed to a January 16
hearing on Jewish, lesbian activist Kate Raphael Bender's
appeal of her deportation from Israel. The judge's decision comes
at the same time that Israel's Internal Security Minister Gideon
Ezra has said, "We will not prevent them (Jews) from entering even
if we know they are coming to resist the (disengagement) plan.
There are people coming for worse causes such as to break down the
security fence and participate in ISM and radical left-wing
activities."
Raphael Bender says that: "Ezra's statement makes it clear that
Israel is determined to continue to flagrantly violate
international law. My appeal will challenge this double standard on
decisions of who to accept and who expel from Israel and the
Occupied Palestinian Territories."
The December 28 court decision came on Raphael Bender's 15th day of
incarceration. She was detained during a non-violent protest
against Israel's Apartheid Wall in the West Bank village of Bil'in.
Raphael Bender, a San Francisco-based activist, has spent twelve of
the last sixteen months in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
with the International Women's Peace Service (IWPS).
Raphael Bender expects that she will be held in Tsochar prison in
Sde Nitsan until the January 16 hearing where she will be represent
herself. She argues that it is illegal for the Israeli government
to prevent her from helping to implement the decision the world's
highest legal body, the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The
ICJ ruled in June that Israel must cease construction and remove
the Wall where it has been built on Palestinian land.
The Israeli Ministry of Interior based its deportation order on the
charges that Raphael Bender was participating in "a violent
demonstration", and that she was arrested and ordered expelled from
Israel one year ago. However, videotapes of the December 14 protest
in Bil'in show that the Israeli army was the only party that used
violence. Raphael Bender also argues that previous order to expel
her is illegitimate because the Israeli army has no jurisdiction in
the Palestinian Territories that it occupies illegally.
Raphael Bender explained that, "I am a Jew protecting the Jewish
people by insisting that those acting in our name respect
international law. Jews would not have said that the German
government had a right to deport foreign citizens for resisting the
Nuremberg laws in 1935."
U.S. peace activist in prison facing second deportation
By Daphna Berman
Ha'aretz Daily
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/521447.html
Kate Raphael Bender hadn't planned on spending New Year's
Eve in an Israeli prison, but the Jewish American peace activist
from San Francisco doesn't seem to mind it all that much either.
After all, she was in an Israeli detention facility last New Year's
Eve as well.
Raphael Bender, 45, who was arrested earlier this month during a
protest against the separation fence in the West Bank village of
Bil'in, is awaiting her January 16 court date to appeal the
Interior Ministry's deportation order against her. It her second
deportation order in less than a year.
"The idea of another three weeks or so in a prison is not what I
was hoping for," she said Wednesday from the immigration police's
Tzohar detention facility in the Negev.
Raphael Bender, who was raised in a traditional Zionist family in
Virginia, is one of the founders of Queers Undermining Israeli
Terrorism (QUIT!) and has been volunteering for the
International Women's Peace Service (IWPS) in Salfit since
2002. She was first arrested a year ago for her participation in a
demonstration in Boudrus and was released on condition that she
leave Israel. She returned to San Francisco, where she had her name
officially changed from Katherine Raphael to Kate Bender, taking on
her mother's family name.
Raphael Bender, as she is now known, would not comment on the
reasons for the name change.
She has briefly considered applying for Israeli citizenship under
the Law of Return, but said that she needed a "really overpowering
reason to assert [her] right to live here as a Jew" before doing
so.
"I realize that deportation means I won't be able to come back to
Israel and Palestine for a long time, if ever," she said. "It will
be hard because I've had a life here for quite some time."
A graduate of the Conservative Movement's USY youth program,
Raphael Bender is hoping that a victory next month will enable her
to return here and lead groups of American Jews on tours of the
West Bank. "The Jewish community wants to isolate and insulate
themselves from what's going on here," she said.
The Immigration Police refused several requests to interview
Raphael Bender at their detention facility in the Negev.
A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said that Raphael Bender's
deportation order was issued because of her interference with
Israel Defense Forces activity and because she entered the country
under a false identity.
Media Contacts:
Kate Raphael Bender: 972-(0)54-7870198
Lisa Belenky: 415-863-8604 (USA)
ISM Media Office: 972-(0)59-676782
01/01/2005
Attack North of Baghdad Kills U.S. Soldier
A Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed and another was injured
today when an improvised explosive device detonated north of the
Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
It was the second U.S. combat death in as many days. A Marine
assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed Dec. 31
while conducting security and stabilization operations in Iraq's
Anbar province, writes American Forces Press Service.
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