photo gallery “Today they expel Hamas members, tomorrow they’ll expel Fatah people, then they’ll expel all the Arabs from East Jerusalem, and in the end they’ll revoke the citizenship of Israeli peace activists and expel us too,” Uri Avnery said today (July 7, 2010) in a meeting with members of the Palestinian Parliament who have … Read more
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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
On the eve of the hearing of Gush Shalom’s petition, PM Netanyahu accepted the request of Judge Ya’akov Tirkel to broaden the powers of the Committee headed by Tirkel, charged with probing the Gaza Flotilla raid. The Supreme Court hearing is delayed for ten days, and until July 11 the activities of the Tirkel Committee … 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
“Netanyahu and his partners consider every day in which they do not instigate a new provocation in East Jerusalem to be a lost day”, said Uri Avnery in response to the decision to expel Mohammed Abu-Tir from Jerusalem. (Avnery met Abu-Tir a few times in his home.) “East Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive … Read more
It took the killing of nine people at sea and the blackening of Israel’s name throughout the world to make the government decide to stop interfering with what the people of Gaza may or may not eat. It apparently would have been too much to expect from PM Netanyahu and his ministers to have taken … 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