The realIsraeli patriotsAre hoping -If not praying -That President ObamaWill bendPrime Minister Netanyahu –And notThe other way round Ad in Haaretz, May 15, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
ON MAY 25, 1967, twelve days before the Six-day war, I published in Haolam Hazeh, the news magazine of which I was the editor, an article entitled “Nasser Has Fallen Into a Trap”. That sounded crazy, because, at the time, all Israel was in the grip of mortal fear. A few months earlier, I was … Read more
Next weekThe occupation will be40 years old -More than two thirdsOf the life of Israel.Every year of occupationCauses the stateTo be more corrupt and sleazy,More cruel towards the occupied,More callous towards the occupiers.The occupation must end -For our own good,And not only for the sakeOf the Palestinians. For information about the many protest actions commemorating … Read more
THE BLOODY battles that have erupted around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon remind us that the refugee problem has not disappeared. On the contrary, 60 years after the “Nakba”, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, it is again the center of attention throughout the world. This is an open wound. Anyone who … Read more
Again:The ministers arePushed by the generals.Again:They chooseMilitary solutionsWhich have already failedDozens of times.Again:People dieIn SderotAnd in Gaza.We need a cease-fireThat will bind thePalestinian organizationsAnd the Israeli army -Not only in the Gaza StripBut also in the West Bank. Ad published in Haaretz, May 25, 2007
In the course of the Shavuot Holiday, marked in Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday, activists of Gush Shalom distributed at various spots stickers reading “Talk to Hamas – Peace is made with enemies!”, of which a large quantity had been printed. “We have gone out for this action with some trepidation, preparing for sharp confrontations, … Read more
The Winograd committee of inquiry is not a part of the solution. It is a part of the problem.Now, after the first excitement caused by the publication of the partial report has died down, it is possible to evaluate it. The conclusion is that it has done much more harm than good. The positive side … Read more
We have isolated Gaza.We have starved Gaza.We have expropriated hundreds of millions that belong to them.We have convinced the world to impose a blockade on them.We have humiliated Mahmoud Abbas.We have boycotted Hamas.We have pushed them into a fratricidal war.Now there is anarchy.The price is paid bySderot. Ad published in Haaretz, May 18, 2007
For the ‘Our Jerusalem’ text in three languages click here Among the signatories are: 70 university professors 131 other faculty members, doctors, lecturers and researchers 89 poets, authors, translators and editors 54 painters, sculptors and other artists 59 journalists 41 actors, moviemakers and theater directors and critics 13 psychiatrists and psychologists 32 jurists 16 architects … Read more
In a letter to the Defence Minister Gush Shalom protests the new policy whereby army roadblocks in the North Dead Sea region completely deny West Bank Palestinians from having access to the Dead Sea shore. Many Palestinian families and groups of school children, on their way to bath in the sea, were turned back by … Read more