IT LOOKED like the fall of the Berlin wall. And not only did it look like it. For a moment, the Rafah crossing was the Brandenburg Gate. It is impossible not to feel exhilaration when masses of oppressed and hungry people break down the wall that is shutting them in, their eyes radiant, embracing everybody … Read more
photo gallery Click here for video (sorry, Hebrew only). The initiative for the large action that took place today (26.1.08) started when the well-know psychiatrist, Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, the human-rights activist from Gaza, met in the Gush Shalom office with a small group of Israeli peace activists, in order to tell them about the desperate … Read more
The Qassams and the incursions go on.Only one solution remains:To speak with Hamas!To achieve a cease fire!To open the border crossings!
SOMETIMES, SOMETHING is said about you, and you are not quite sure whether to take it as a compliment or an insult. Two prominent journalists, whom I respect very much, mentioned me in connection with the Prime Minister. Akiva Eldar of Haaretz asked last month about Ehud Olmert: “How to treat a son of the … Read more
The cruel blockade of GazaIntensifies the hatred,Intensifies the bloodshed.All Israeli peace movements,In cooperation with GazaHuman rights activists,Will participate on January 26In a large convoyTo bring essential suppliesTo the Gaza Strip,Express their protest,And demand:Lift the blockade! Join the convoy! Take your family with you! If you own a private car: please bring it, in order to … Read more
Justice Miriam Naor to state attorney: ” Which law authorizes The Military Commander to issue instructions to a civilian Minister?” During the proceedings it turned out that the Supreme Court Library has no copy of legislation issued by the West Bank military governor This morning, the Supreme Court in Jerusalem saw tense proceedings regarding the … Read more
Tomorrow (Wed. Jan 16), Supreme Court judges Fogelman, Hayut and Naor will hear Gush Shalom’s appeal against creation of a settler radio. “The result of this tender is predetermined – a legitimation of the inciting Arutz 7 pirate radio. We do not want to stop the settlers’ mouths but to ensure that their opponents … Read more
WHICH OF the two men is the leader of the greatest power on earth and which is the boss of a small client state? A visitor from another planet, attending the press conference in Jerusalem, would find it hard not to answer: Olmert is the president of the great power, Bush is his vassal. Olmert … Read more
Bush comes and goes.We remain here -And so do the Palestinians.Not the AmericansWill safeguard our future.Our FutureWill be assuredWhen we succeedIn persuadingThe Arab worldThat we are fair partnersIn the building of this region -For all itsPeoples and countries. Ad published in Haaretz, January 11, 2008
[The Case of the White Bird] TZIPI LIVNI, as her name indicates, is the white bird of Israeli politics (Tzipi is short for Tzipora, “bird”, and Livni comes from Lavan, “white”). As against the hawk Binyamin Netanyahu, the vulture Ehud Barak and the raven Ehud Olmert, she was seen as the immaculate feathered friend. In … Read more