NO POINT denying it: in the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten. Obama had demanded a freeze of all settlement activity, including East Jerusalem, as a condition for convening a tripartite summit meeting, in the wake of which accelerated peace negotiations were to start, leading to peace … Read more
photo gallery video link This Saturday morning, September 26, the IDF declared the area of the Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills to be “a closed military zone” in order to prevent the entry of a Water Convoy organized by Israeli peace movements – but nevertheless, the activists managed to break through the military … Read more
Netanyahu has won:No settlement freeze.Obama has swallowedThe frog.How much shall weHave to pay for thatIn the future? Ad in Haaretz, Sep. 25, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and the campaigns – to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
photo gallery After reading on your website about the water shortage in Karawat Bani Zeid on the West Bank I decided to visit the village, to hear and see how this water shortage impacts the inhabitants’ daily life. I visited Burkin Village, at whose center flows the sewage of the settlement of Ariel, polluting the … Read more
IS THERE no limit to the wiles of those dastardly anti-Semites? Now they have decided to slander the Jews with another blood libel. Not the old accusation of slaughtering Christian children to use their blood for baking Passover matzoth, as in the past, but of the mass slaughter of women and children in Gaza. And … Read more
During the Gaza warWe have warnedThat it will leadThe leaders and commandersTo the Hague.Instead of defamingThe Jewish-Zionist judgeA creditable, independentAnd public IsraeliCommission of InquiryMust be set up right nowTo investigate the accusationsAnd interrogate the victims, too,Under the eyes ofThe world media.The alternative isA trial in the Hague. Ad in Haaretz, Sep. 18, 2009 Cheques to … Read more
The severe conclusions of the Goldstone Commission are part of the high and continuing price which the state of Israel must pay for the decision to conduct a brutal and unnecessary war in Gaza. The communications media in Israel imposed censorship on themselves and prevented the citizens of Israel from seeing the scenes of widespread … Read more
EVEN THE Romans never saw a game like this in their arena: three gladiators fighting against each other, while at the same time each of them has to defend himself against attackers from behind. All three of them – Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas – are fighting for their political life. The three … Read more
The government of IsraelIs full ofTricksters and swindlersWho do not dreamOf making peace –That is the clear messageTo all those in the worldWho still entertainedAny doubts.The 450 building permitsWill not, of course,Satisfy the settlersWho have never enough. Ad in Haaretz, Sep. 11, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and the campaigns – … Read more
The Gush Shalom movement found out that West Bank settlers intend to “create a fait accompli on the airwaves, and start operating a broadcasting station which, under cover of “a regional radio station”, will reach to all parts of Israel, except to Eilat. It is to broadcast extreme right propaganda in the style of the … Read more