photo gallery On Saturday, 26 October, we held the first joint Israeli-Palestinian-Internationaldemonstration. The demonstration was held in Kalquilia, on both sides of the separation wall. One group of Palestinians and internationals was on a roof of a school (see enlarged section of photo), while another group demonstrated on the other side of thewall, at a … Read more
photo gallery On Saturday, 26 October, we held the first joint Israeli-Palestinian-Internationaldemonstration. The demonstration was held in Kalquilia, on both sides of the separation wall. One group of Palestinians and internationals was on a roof of a school (see enlarged section of photo), while another group demonstrated on the other side of thewall, at a … Read more
photo gallery In the framework of the “Olive Picking Coalition”,Gush Shalom activists took part (together with activists of Ta’ayush,the Women’s Coalition and the Committee against House Demolitions in a massive action ofpicking the olives of Hirbet Jabara village.360 activists came in seven buses and privare cars from all over the country.The work went on at … Read more
“Whom do you believe?” asked General Ya’akov Amidror on TV with subdued anger, “the armyspokesman or Hamas?” General (reserves) Amidror is the highest religious officer in our army. In the past he hasraised several public storms with some utterances denigrating secular Israelis, sayingthat they are not real Jews. He has a sharp mind, much above … Read more
photo gallery In the framework of the “Olive Picking Coalition”,Gush Shalom activists took part (together with activists of Ta’ayush,the Women’s Coalition and the Committee against House Demolitions in a massive action ofpicking the olives of Hirbet Jabara village.360 activists came in seven buses and privare cars from all over the country.The work went on at … Read more
The Beilin-Abed-Rabbo agreement is the latest hit on the Middle Eastern market. This week I made a short visit to Germany, where a book of mine has come out, and was asked about itat every event. At my meetings with President Johannes Rau and Foreign Minister JoschkaFischer, too, the subject came up at once. I … Read more
The most dramatic moment arrived in the evening after Yom Kippur. We were sitting in the courtyard of Arafat’s Mukat’ah (compound); a group of Israeli peaceactivists and Palestinian friends, senior Palestinian Authority officials. A pleasantmild wind was blowing after a hot day. We were chatting about the situation (what else?) and thelatest gossip about the … Read more
In his final speech in court, Marwan Barghouti, the Fatah leader on trial, issued a resoundingwarning: If Israelis do not adopt the Two-States Solution soon, Israel will disappear. Thewhole country will become one state, and in this state the Palestinians will soon constitutethe majority. I don’t know whom Barghouti talked with before using this argument. … Read more
photo gallery On Friday, 27 th. september, Gush Shalom held a demonstrationin front of the Kalandia “check-point”alongside the leaders of the Arab public in Israel -demanding the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Mukata’a.the demonstration also acknowledged, again,that Arafat is the elected, legitimate leader of the Palestinian people.Surprisingly, the demonstration was peaceful and the … Read more
A year and a half ago, a small group of Israelis decided to break a deeply entrenched taboo andbring up the subject of war crimes. Until then, it was self-evident that the IDF is “the mostmoral and humane army in the world”, as the official mantra goes, and is therefore quiteincapable of such things. The … Read more