Open Democracy, 21, 07, 2008Is it already too late for the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Is a “one-state solution” the realistic as well as alluring alternative, where the energies of those committed to a peaceful outcome should be invested? These questions have a particular resonance for me, for as long ago as summer … Read more
WE BOW OUR HEADS AT THE GRAVE OF MAHMOUD DARWISH SON OF GALILEE CONSCIENCE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE POET OF ANGER AND HOPE PARTNER IN THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACEBETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLES OF THIS COUNTRY GUSH SHALOM Ad published in Haaretz, August 11, 2008
It was one of the most important and largely forgotten milestones in the history of the state: Forty-one years ago tomorrow, on July 16, 1967, a young kibbutznik got out of his jeep at Aalleiqa, an abandoned Syrian army base on the Golan Heights, and became the first settler in the occupied territories. Only five … Read more
[ for questions and queries amosg@shefayim.org.il ] Nr. 116 For many years settlers from Kiryat Arba have been attacking the homes of three El Ja’abari families in Wadi Nasara, situated between Hebron and Kiryat Arba. Ever since March 2007, when settlers occupied a nearby building, they have been regularly attacking the El Ja’abari homes in … Read more
Report by Adam Keller on the session of the governmental Goldberg Commission, May 15 in Be’er Sheva re the situation of Bedouins – with testimonies by Nuri al-Okbi, Ibrahim al-Amur, Amos Gvirtz and Ya’akov Manor “The Bedouin population is being shamefully discriminated and brutally persecuted in its own home, on its land in the Negev” … Read more
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, support and uphold the call of a coalition of organizations and individuals in Gaza for an international campaign to end the siege on Gaza. We call on members of Israeli society to join the campaign. Since June 2007, Israeli isolation policies towards the Gaza Strip have escalated. While controlling … Read more
photo gallery Back to first part Ro’i Ben Horin: My view is a bit different. We will withdraw from all the territories, after some kind of disaster. From Sinai we have withdrawn after Yom Kippur, from Lebanon after intolerable casualties, from Gaza because the economic price was intolerable. We will not withdraw until the non-withdrawal … Read more
An amazing video + Don’t say you didn’t know + more links in the end “I am not going to that rally, not at any price. To be among Barak’s audience? Barak? Just this week, Shulamit Aloni said he should be tried for war crimes. And you call that a peace rally?” “But we … Read more
click for the more recent ones Nr 75 Discrimination against Palestinian Israeli citizens also occurs in the policies and conditions of imprisonment. David Ben Shimol (an Israeli Jew) was convicted of the murder of one person and the wounding of tens of others, after he had fired a LAU missile at a bus full of … Read more
Gush Shalom asks the court to halt government plans for creation of a so-called “regional radio” for settlers. As a cover-up for legalizing a settler pirate radio station (Arutz-7) a tender was issued by the government on the basis of military decrees which threaten basic democratic principles. The Supreme Court was requested to issue a … Read more