The provocative settler parade planned in Sheikh Jarrah reflects the nature of this false holiday and false unification of Jerusalem It is only suitable and appropriate to the nature of the false espicable holiday called “Jersalem Day” that this year the settlers’ “March of the Flags” was transferred from Jaffa Street in West Jerusalem to … Read more
It’s time to bring back the Navy ships from off the Gaza coast, stop the harassing of Palestinian fishermen and allow the next flotilla to proceed.A Palestinian state will naturally seek to establish a port in Gaza, just as Israel did in Haifa and Ashdod. “It is time to recognize reality: the siege of Gaza, … Read more
IT WAS all rather disgusting.There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of Binyamin Netanyahu. It was worse than the Syrian parliament during a speech by Bashar … Read more
In the US Congress,Netanyahu can declare thatThe Moon is made of green cheeseAnd get a standing ovation.Nevertheless, the whole worldAccepts the 1967 linesAs the basis for theBorder of peaceBetween Israel and Palestine. Ad published in Ha’aretz, May 27, 2011
The speech of PM Netanyahu in the US Congress was composed of dozens of colorful gimmicks and empty cliches, talk of a peace which he does not intend to conclude and of a fictional Palestinian state which he has no intention of seeing become reality. Netanyahu praised democracy to the skies, while intending to continue … Read more
Our fellow activist and personal friend Rachel Avnery, wife of Uri, has May 21 passed away succumbing to a longtime illness. A devoted seeker of Israeli-Palestinian peace, she was a founding member of the Gush Shalom movement, an effective organizer who had a listening ear for all, a joyful personality. She will be very much … Read more
“The only possible way to peace is through a historic compromise in which Israel would give up the territories occupied in 1967 and in return the Palestinians would give up their claim to the territories lost in 1948” says Gush Shalom spokesperson Adam Keller, in response to the Prime Minister’s speech in the Knesset, 16th … Read more
It is interesting to knowWhat Netanyahu has to tellTo Obama and in Congress.Also important to knowWhat Obama has to say.But never forget:Without Israeli-Palestinian peaceThe US has still a future.We don’t. Ad in Ha’aretz, May 20, 2011 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and the campaigns – to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033. … Read more
I COULD not restrain myself. Though I was alone in the room, I burst out laughing. I was reading a newspaper report about the latest poll. People were asked to evaluate the nation’s leaders. It appears that the President of the State, Shimon Peres, is by far the most popular leader in Israel. 72% of … Read more
Barak is recyclingThe “generous offers” from 2000:A truncated Palestinian StateSuffocated and bottled inWith continued Israeli occupationOf the Jordan Valley.It is a complete absurdTo offer againThis broken down junk. Ad in Ha’aretz, May 13, 2011