A VICTORY is a victory. A big victory is better than a small one, but a small victory is better than a defeat. This week we won. Immediately after the Turkel Commission was set up to investigate the flotilla incident, Gush Shalom filed a petition to the Supreme Court of Justice against its appointment. We … Read more
Netanyahu gave inAnd agreed toEnlarge the powers.Of the Turkel commission,Just whenThe Supreme CourtWas about to decideOn our petitionTo disband it.That is not enough.OnlyA State CommissionOf Inquiry,Empowered toInvestigate everything,Can reveal theFull truth. Ad in Haaretz – July 2, 2010 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and the campaigns – to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, … Read more
Tomorrow, Wednesday June 30, the Supreme Court will hear our appeal to dismantle the Tirkel Committee and replace it with a Judicial Commission of Inquiry.Uri Avnery: “Even if the United States government was convinced to agree to a powerless, meaningless investigation, we as Israeli citizens, concerned for the future of our country, absolutely don’t agree.” … Read more
I AM composing these lines while looking through the window at the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and thinking about the young man who is being held not far from this sea, a few dozen kilometers from here. Can Gilad Shalit look out on the same sea through his window? Does he even have … Read more
The mayor of Jerusalem,An extreme rightist,Has announced his decisionTo demolish 22 Arab homesIn Silwan.The leader of the Labor Party,Ehud Barak,Has voiced someVague criticism of the“Timing” of this provocation.The Meretz fractionHas quitted theMunicipal coalition.Barak doesn’t dream ofQuitting the provocativeGovernment coalition. Ad in Haaretz – June 25, 2010 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and … Read more
NIGHT. UTTER darkness. Heavy rain. Visibility close to nil. And suddenly – a flash of lightning. For a fraction of a second, the landscape is lit up. For this split second, the terrain surrounding us can be seen. It is not the way it used to be. OUR GOVERNMENT’ action against the Gaza aid flotilla … Read more
OnlyA judicial inquiry commissionIndependent of the governmentWith powers to interrogateAll those involved –From Netanyahu and BarakTo the last commando soldier –Will be credibleTo Israeli and internationalPublic opinion.ThereforeGush Shalom has requestedThe Supreme CourtTo disbandThe Turkel commissionAnd appoint aJudicial committee. Ad in Haaretz – June 18, 2010 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and the … Read more
To the Labor Party, Party Headquarters, Beit Berl I would like to announce my resignation from membership in the Labor Party, effective immediately. The thought of taking such a step has been running through my head since the party accepted the role of “fig leaf” in the most right-wing nationalist government which this country had … Read more
I am one of the remaining veterans of the Haganah, who had served in the British Army and thereafter were among the initiators of the Ha’apala [illegal immigration] of Holocaust survivors, struggling with the forces of victorious Great Britain for the right to arrive at the shores of this country. Its warships and soldiers, those … Read more
Supreme Court Judge Neal Hendel stated that a bench of three judges will within 21 days hear the petition filed by the Gush Shalom movement. In the appeal lodged through lawyers Gaby Lasky, Lymor Goldstein and Neri Ramati, “Gush Shalom” asked the Supreme Court to order the dissolution of the Tirkel Commission which is ” … Read more