A week full of action all over the country – to confront Israelis from within that 40 YEARS IS ENOUGH – culminating in demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv on June 9 – look here in the coming days for updates. June 1 from 10:00 am at the Port of Tel Aviv – “Until She Opens … Read more
THE BLOODY battles that have erupted around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon remind us that the refugee problem has not disappeared. On the contrary, 60 years after the “Nakba”, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, it is again the center of attention throughout the world. This is an open wound. Anyone who … Read more
Again:The ministers arePushed by the generals.Again:They chooseMilitary solutionsWhich have already failedDozens of times.Again:People dieIn SderotAnd in Gaza.We need a cease-fireThat will bind thePalestinian organizationsAnd the Israeli army -Not only in the Gaza StripBut also in the West Bank. Ad published in Haaretz, May 25, 2007
In the course of the Shavuot Holiday, marked in Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday, activists of Gush Shalom distributed at various spots stickers reading “Talk to Hamas – Peace is made with enemies!”, of which a large quantity had been printed. “We have gone out for this action with some trepidation, preparing for sharp confrontations, … Read more
The Winograd committee of inquiry is not a part of the solution. It is a part of the problem.Now, after the first excitement caused by the publication of the partial report has died down, it is possible to evaluate it. The conclusion is that it has done much more harm than good. The positive side … Read more
We have isolated Gaza.We have starved Gaza.We have expropriated hundreds of millions that belong to them.We have convinced the world to impose a blockade on them.We have humiliated Mahmoud Abbas.We have boycotted Hamas.We have pushed them into a fratricidal war.Now there is anarchy.The price is paid bySderot. Ad published in Haaretz, May 18, 2007
For the ‘Our Jerusalem’ text in three languages click here Among the signatories are: 70 university professors 131 other faculty members, doctors, lecturers and researchers 89 poets, authors, translators and editors 54 painters, sculptors and other artists 59 journalists 41 actors, moviemakers and theater directors and critics 13 psychiatrists and psychologists 32 jurists 16 architects … Read more
In a letter to the Defence Minister Gush Shalom protests the new policy whereby army roadblocks in the North Dead Sea region completely deny West Bank Palestinians from having access to the Dead Sea shore. Many Palestinian families and groups of school children, on their way to bath in the sea, were turned back by … Read more
The Oslo agreementAffirms that the West BankAnd the Gaza StripAre one single entity.In the agreement,Israel undertook to openFour “safe passages” between them.This undertaking was violatedFrom the first day.Now the Americans demandThat Israel open the passage.Olmert the heroSpits in their eyes. Ad published in Haaretz, May 11, 2007
I HAVE BEEN to many demonstrations in Tel-Aviv’s Rabin Square, even when it was still called “Kings of Israel Square”. I was at the legendary “Demonstration of the 400 thousand” after the Sabra and Shatila massacre (actually, there were around 200 thousand, which is still an impressive number). I was there when Yitzhak Rabin was … Read more