“Every cease-fire has two sides” said today former Knesset Member Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom activist. “A unilateral arrogant proclamation by Olmert and Barak, in front of the TV cameras, did not stop the shooting of missiles at the Negev, and it still continued this morning. Only when Hamas added a unilateral cease-fire of its own … Read more
“An attack of this kind violates all international conventions” said representatives of the Finnish Church. The clinic had supplied primary medical care to children. As part of the Israeli Air Force bombardments there was totally destroyed last Saturday in Gaza a children’s clinic created some years ago by Finn Church Aid jointly with other Scandinavian … Read more
If the state of Israel turns its back upon the international community, which after long deliberations adopted a reasonable cease-fire resolution, the world for its part might turn its back on Israel and make it a pariah state. There are reasonable doubts for suspecting that the government’s refusal to accept a cease-fire derive, at least … Read more
The desperate refugees who lost everything had hoped that hiding in a school belonging to the UN would give them at least some kind of refuge and save their children. They did not know that even there a single shell would cut off dozens of lives in a single second. They did not know that … Read more
The war in Gaza, the bloodshed, killing, destruction and suffering on both sides of the border, are the vicious folly of a bankrupt government. A government which let itself be dragged by adventurous officers and cheap nationalist demagoguery, dragged into a destructive and unnecessary war which will bring no solution to any problem – neither … Read more
Peaceseekers blocked at Hebron entrance; Ezra Nawi detained.Hebron mayor: Settler violence continues every night, army road-blocks cut us off and damage Hebron’s economic life. More than a hundred Israeli peace activists were blocked by army and police at the entrance to Hebron, and prevented from visiting the city and meeting with the mayor and with … Read more
Teddy Katz and Adam Keller, members of Gush Shalom, were among dozens of Jewish and Arab peace activists whose sailing to Gaza was prevented this morning by the police raid on the port of Jaffa. “An Israeli citizen can board a boat and sail away for Greece or Italy, or even to America or Tahiti, … Read more
The army issued four more demolition orders to houses. Actually, the entire village is slated for destruction, with 39 out of 45 houses immediately threatened.A European Parliament delegation visited Aqaba which in the Jenin Area of the West Bank – and the village’s mayor met with Members of Congress in Washington.Gush Shalom: The time is … Read more
Acts speak louder than words. Few hours after peace speeches by Peres, Barak and Livni at the Rabin Square, police expelled the Al-Kurd Family from their home, on behalf of extreme-right settlers. On Saturday night, Nov. 8, President Shimon Peres, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni mounted the podium at the mass … Read more
A bloody Gaza provocation on elections night.Barak’s gift to the Israelis of Sderot: a gift of missiles. While public opinion in Israel and abroad was focused on the historical US elections, Defence Minister Ehud Barak used the opportunity to violate the cease-fire which he himself signed, and carry out a bloody provocation in the Gaza … Read more