I don't make the news, I just train the guys that do

I don’t make the news, but I train the guys who make the news?
July 3, 2002

Gee, when people take my training program for nonviolent direct action and civilian human rights protection, this is what happens to them. I guess I should attach a disclaimer to tomorrow's program. Guess I'll go find Darlene and spend a final night carousing. Eric, who is Jewish American, brought his mother over here with him. She is apparently taking it all rather well. Got to spend the last two days with a really cool Michigan Peace Team-er named Mike, am trying to recruit him to the team also if he doesn't get deported first. Add these to my guys in the Church of the Nativity and Muqataa last invasion-go-round. Well, I'm still firmly planted here for the meanwhile.
-Le Anne


[Press Release from ‘The Other Israel’ and Gush Shalom, the Israeli ‘Peace Bloc’]

Tomorrow: court decision regarding deportation order against two of the internationals
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 19:06:06 +0200

URGENT:

Only now was announced that tomorrow at 12 o'clock the Administrative Court in
Jerusalem is going to give its final verdict in the question of the deportation order against Josie Sandercock (UK) and Darlene Wallach (US). The two were among a group of internationals arrested several weeks ago at Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus - while trying to provide humanitarian help to inhabitant whose house had been taken over.

The two are represented by lawyers Mahmoud Jabbarin of LAW and Gaby Laski of
PCATI. The court is in the Disstrict Court building on Salah a-Din Street, East
Jerusalem. In an earlier session the presence of activists, journalists and diplomats
may have had an impact - there followed release on bail.

The decision of tomorrow is not only important for the fate of these two women, but
also as precedent. IF YOU FEEL THAT THE INTERNATIONALS DO AN IMPORTANT HUMANITARIAN JOB, THEN BE THERE.

(Based upon the information we just now got from Josie.)

A vivid description of the earlier session and about what these internationals stand for in Tom Segev's "Three Volunteers in Limbo" of Friday, June 14
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=176264&contrassID=2&
subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

The following is another ISM report out of the many we receive daily :

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
http://www.palsolidarity.org
July 3, 2002 1700
For immediate release

Two Americans, one Brit held captive by Israeli Army

Held in inhumane conditions, denied access to consulates

[NABLUS] At 1600 Monday July 01, 2002 Israeli soldiers took Eric Levine, an American human rights worker, Brian Dominick, an American medical worker, and Peter Blacker, a British medical worker to an army occupied house near Nablus where they were made to stay under inhuman conditions, with no explanation, for over 45 hours.

They were put in a small unfinished room, out in the open. They remained in the open
day and night without adequate shelter from the heat or nighttime cold. They were
given one meal a day consisting of canned food and not allowed to use toilet facilities. The men repeatedly asked why they were being held and requested to make phone calls to their family and consulates, but were denied. Soldiers yelled at them, pushed them and told them that if they tried to leave they would be shot.

Today at approximately 1600 the men were released in a remote location near
Nablus, whereby they made their way into Nablus on foot. The two medical workers are
now with the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) in Nablus,
and Eric is due to be on a flight back to the United States tonight.

The Israeli Army has thus far not given either the ISM or consular officials any explanation as to why these men were abducted, treated inhumanely and held
incommunicado for two days.