photo gallery About a thousand demonstrators – half of them Israelis, half Palestinians – converged on Saturday morning on the East Jerusalem neighborhoodSawahra, where a section of the “separation wall” is going to be built. It will cut tens of thousands of Palestinian off from the world – from schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, workplaces – … Read more
In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinaidesert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of theconquered territories. In the 18 year long Lebanon War, more than a thousand Israeli soldiers were murdered whileconquering and … Read more
photo gallery On Saturday, 26 October, we held the first joint Israeli-Palestinian-Internationaldemonstration. The demonstration was held in Kalquilia, on both sides of the separation wall. One group of Palestinians and internationals was on a roof of a school (see enlarged section of photo), while another group demonstrated on the other side of thewall, at a … Read more
photo gallery On Saturday, 26 October, we held the first joint Israeli-Palestinian-Internationaldemonstration. The demonstration was held in Kalquilia, on both sides of the separation wall. One group of Palestinians and internationals was on a roof of a school (see enlarged section of photo), while another group demonstrated on the other side of thewall, at a … Read more
photo gallery In the framework of the “Olive Picking Coalition”,Gush Shalom activists took part (together with activists of Ta’ayush,the Women’s Coalition and the Committee against House Demolitions in a massive action ofpicking the olives of Hirbet Jabara village.360 activists came in seven buses and privare cars from all over the country.The work went on at … Read more
“Whom do you believe?” asked General Ya’akov Amidror on TV with subdued anger, “the armyspokesman or Hamas?” General (reserves) Amidror is the highest religious officer in our army. In the past he hasraised several public storms with some utterances denigrating secular Israelis, sayingthat they are not real Jews. He has a sharp mind, much above … Read more
photo gallery In the framework of the “Olive Picking Coalition”,Gush Shalom activists took part (together with activists of Ta’ayush,the Women’s Coalition and the Committee against House Demolitions in a massive action ofpicking the olives of Hirbet Jabara village.360 activists came in seven buses and privare cars from all over the country.The work went on at … Read more
The Beilin-Abed-Rabbo agreement is the latest hit on the Middle Eastern market. This week I made a short visit to Germany, where a book of mine has come out, and was asked about itat every event. At my meetings with President Johannes Rau and Foreign Minister JoschkaFischer, too, the subject came up at once. I … Read more
The most dramatic moment arrived in the evening after Yom Kippur. We were sitting in the courtyard of Arafat’s Mukat’ah (compound); a group of Israeli peaceactivists and Palestinian friends, senior Palestinian Authority officials. A pleasantmild wind was blowing after a hot day. We were chatting about the situation (what else?) and thelatest gossip about the … Read more
In his final speech in court, Marwan Barghouti, the Fatah leader on trial, issued a resoundingwarning: If Israelis do not adopt the Two-States Solution soon, Israel will disappear. Thewhole country will become one state, and in this state the Palestinians will soon constitutethe majority. I don’t know whom Barghouti talked with before using this argument. … Read more