WHAT HAPPENS when one and a half million human beings are imprisoned in a tiny, arid territory, cut off from their compatriots and from any contact with the outside world, starved by an economic blockade and unable to feed their families? Some months ago, I described this situation as a sociological experiment set up by … Read more
Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, demands of the government to reopen immediately the border crossings to the Gaza strip, which are its vital lifeline. “It was the state of Israel which decided to keep in its hands all the keys for entry into and exit from the Gaza Strip, and deny to Gazans the … Read more
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You have caused a disasterWhen you broke offNegotiations with SyriaJust before reaching an agreement.You have caused a disasterWhen, after your failureAt Camp David,You declared that”We have no partner for peace”.Now you have been givenA rare opportunityTo repair the terrible damage. Ad published in Haaretz, June 15, 2007
“The Six Day War has already lasted forty years – it is time to end it” was the expression used by Shauki Hatib, head of the Monitoring Committee, political leadership of Israel’s Arab citizens, and quoted on the Y-net news website. He was not the only one who felt this way. Israel has now kept … Read more
Good evening. It is a great honour for me to stand on this stage beside my friend and brother Bassam Aramin, a man of the Palestinian peace camp, one of the founders of the Combatants for Peace movement of which two of my sons, Alik and Guy, are members of. Only last week, on Tuesday … Read more
“REST HAS come to the tired / Repose to the toiler / A pale night covers / The fields of the Jezreel valley / Dew below and moon above / From Kibbutz Bet-Alfa to Moshav Nahalal…” This is what we sang when we were young. Now it is a TV nostalgia show, youngsters of the … Read more
Generals, politicians and journalistsAre predictingA war against SyriaIn the summer.There is no reason for war,Neither in the northNor in the south -Except Olmert’s refusalTo achieve peace agreementsThat will oblige himTo give backThe occupied territoriesAnd to dismantleThe settlements. Ad published in Haaretz, June 8, 2007
http://gush-shalom.org.toibillboard.info/breakingthesilence_ruИзраильская организация «Прервать молчание» (Breaking the Silence), вошедшая в 2010 году в число номинантов Премии имени Сахарова, выпустила на иврите и на английском языке книгу свидетельств израильских солдат, которые в 2000-2010 году проходили службу на оккупированных Израилем территориях.«Гуш Шалом» знакомит русских читателей с этой книгой.
“NOTHING SUCCEEDS like success,” says a typical American adage. The Israeli version, also typical, is: “Nothing succeeds like failure.” It seems that no one has any chance of winning an election here until they have proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that they are a total failure. So it is quite possible that in the next … Read more