“REST HAS come to the tired / Repose to the toiler / A pale night covers / The fields of the Jezreel valley / Dew below and moon above / From Kibbutz Bet-Alfa to Moshav Nahalal…” This is what we sang when we were young. Now it is a TV nostalgia show, youngsters of the … Read more
photo gallery “Peace Yes! Occupation No!” chanted from thousands of throats in Ibn Gvirol Street – the Tel-Aviv protest march to mark the 40th anniversary of the occupation, Saturday June 9. “Back to the 1967 Borders!”, “Enough of the Occupation, Yes to Israeli-Palestinian Peace!”, “Peace Negotiations Will Prevent War!” said the slogans that were carried … Read more
Generals, politicians and journalistsAre predictingA war against SyriaIn the summer.There is no reason for war,Neither in the northNor in the south -Except Olmert’s refusalTo achieve peace agreementsThat will oblige himTo give backThe occupied territoriesAnd to dismantleThe settlements. Ad published in Haaretz, June 8, 2007
http://gush-shalom.org.toibillboard.info/breakingthesilence_ruИзраильская организация «Прервать молчание» (Breaking the Silence), вошедшая в 2010 году в число номинантов Премии имени Сахарова, выпустила на иврите и на английском языке книгу свидетельств израильских солдат, которые в 2000-2010 году проходили службу на оккупированных Израилем территориях.«Гуш Шалом» знакомит русских читателей с этой книгой.
“NOTHING SUCCEEDS like success,” says a typical American adage. The Israeli version, also typical, is: “Nothing succeeds like failure.” It seems that no one has any chance of winning an election here until they have proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that they are a total failure. So it is quite possible that in the next … Read more
The realIsraeli patriotsAre hoping -If not praying -That President ObamaWill bendPrime Minister Netanyahu –And notThe other way round Ad in Haaretz, May 15, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
ON MAY 25, 1967, twelve days before the Six-day war, I published in Haolam Hazeh, the news magazine of which I was the editor, an article entitled “Nasser Has Fallen Into a Trap”. That sounded crazy, because, at the time, all Israel was in the grip of mortal fear. A few months earlier, I was … Read more
June 11, 2011, the Knesset adopted a law making the settlement products boycott campaign illegal, punishable with huge compensation claims from each and every company. June 12, we have lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against this infringement of our democratic rights, but meanwhile we simply can’t afford to continue publishing the list of … Read more
Until 1967, the border dividing Israel from the West Bank was marked on the map in green. After 1967, successive Israeli governments invested enormous effort and huge sums of money in trying to efface and obliterate the Green Line, with highways cutting across it and Israeli settlements mushrooming on the other side. In one of … Read more
Next weekThe occupation will be40 years old -More than two thirdsOf the life of Israel.Every year of occupationCauses the stateTo be more corrupt and sleazy,More cruel towards the occupied,More callous towards the occupiers.The occupation must end -For our own good,And not only for the sakeOf the Palestinians. For information about the many protest actions commemorating … Read more