photo gallery The military authorities controlling the vital lifeline of the Gaza Strip’s million and half inhabitants have decided to celebrate Israel’s sixtieth anniversary by holding up vital medical supplies urgently needed within the Strip. Sunday May 4, Gush Shalom activists accompanied a relief truck, carrying medical supplies worth 60,000 Dollars, purchased through donations collected … Read more
Medicines worth aQuarter of a million shekelsWere brought this weekInto the Gaza StripBy Gush Shalom,As part of theCoalition Against the Blockade.Thanks to the many donorsWho answered our call.Medicines for GazaInstead of killings and blockade!
EVERY TIME I hear the voice of David Ben-Gurion uttering the words “Therefore we are gathered here…” I think of Issar Barsky, a charming youngster, the little brother of a girl-friend of mine. The last time we met was in front of the dining hall of Kibbutz Hulda, on Friday, May 14, 1948. In the … Read more
Next WeekThe 60th Independence DayWill be celebratedWith boastful wastefulness.This week Israel lookedCruel and callous.Instead of accepting gladlyThe proposed cease-fire,It sent its soldiers into GazaFor another brutal and senseless attack.It refused to take responsibilityFor the killing of a motherAnd her four children.Those who love IsraelAnd worry about our image and futureWill find it hard to rejoice … Read more
Ehud Barak, head of the extreme right in Israel who calls himself “Labor Party leader” has a lot of blood on his hands – more than the Palestinian prisoners whom the government refuses to release in order to return captured soldier Gile’ad Shalit to his family. The sole responsibility for the terrible killing of a … Read more
WAR WITH Syria? Peace with Syria?A big military operation against Hamas in the Gaza strip? A cease-fire with Hamas? Our media discuss these questions dispassionately, as if they were equivalent options. Like a person in a showroom making a choice between two cars. This one is good, and so is the other one. So which … Read more
Now it’s official:Hamas is ready to acceptThe State of IsraelWithin the 1967 borders -Subject to approvalBy a Palestinian plebiscite -And also proposesA cease-fire.The Olmert-Barak governmentDid not deignTo respond. Ad published in Haaretz, April 25, 2008
By Adam Keller Note: This account ends with an urgent request for donations, with theintervening text explaining exactly why they are very much needed. If youhave no time to read everything, please go to the end – that is, infact, the most important part! April 17, morning – A few activists outside the the Supreme … Read more
TONIGHT THE JEWS all over the world will celebrate the Seder, the unique ceremony that unites Jews everywhere in the defining Jewish myth: the Exodus from Egypt. Every year I marvel again at the genius of this ceremony. It unites the whole family, and everyone – from the venerable grandfather to the smallest child – … Read more
Jimmy Carter,Former President of the USA,Father of our peace with Egypt,Offered to help usBreak out of theVicious circle of bloodshed.He was angrily rebuffed.The next day,Three IDF soldiersWere killed in an ambushIn the Gaza Strip,And 21 Palestinians,Including many children,Died in a revenge action. Ad published in Haaretz, April 18, 2008