In an appeal to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, the Gush Shalom movement asks the judges to halt government plans for creation of a “regional radio” intended for the use of West Bank settlers. The appellants say that the tender issued by the government is in fact meant to legalize pirate radio stations such as … Read more
The starving of the Gaza inhabitants is a crime and a folly. Mistreating a million and a half people will make them the most bitter of enemies. Instead of a cruel policy of naked force, we should negotiate with all Palestinians – including Hamas. “With our own hands we are uniting a million and … Read more
.Citizens and soldiers pay price for government policy of negotiating with half the Palestinians and making war with the other half. Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, calls for an immediate ceasefire with the Hamas leadership, in order to end the dangerous escalation in the Gaza Strip and its environs.We now face the inevitable results … Read more
.Connection of fence route with shady real estate deals must be further investigated. “Today Justices Beinish, Procacha and Rivlin fulfilled the task entrusted to the judges of a Supreme Court in democratic state – to prevent the state authorities from perpetrating in justice. In deciding to reject the route of Separation Fence which was drawn … Read more
Yediot Aharonot censored a death noticefor Palestinian children killed by the army Press Release, August 30, 2007 Following the killing of three children in the Gaza Strip, the third such case within one week of Palestinian children being shot to death by Israeli forces, the Gush Shalom movement decided to publish death notices with the … Read more
“It is not enough to mention the Palestinian Nakbah in the curriculum of Arab schools in Israel, the subject should also be included in the Hebrew text books studied by Jewish pupils” wrote the Gush Shalom movement to Education Minister Yuli Tamir. “The Arab citizens of Israel need no school textbooks in order to know … Read more
(including addresses for your protest) Gush Shalom today sent a strong protest to Prime Minster Olmert and Defence Minister Barak, and also a letter to representatives of the European Union – warning about the extreme suffering of about 6000 Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the closed Rafah Border crossing and unable to return … Read more
The verdict in Mordechai Vanunu’s trial is a miscarriage of justice, added to to the earlier unreasonalbe and manifestly wrong decisions taken towards him: to imprison him against his will in a country where he does not want to live, to impose on him unreaonable restrictions and to put him again on trial. It will … Read more
Ehud Barak initiates his return to the Defence Ministry with a macho gesture of unbridled force, a bloody invasion of the Gaza Strip. If it was Barak’s intention to undermine whatever remains of Abu Mazen’s base of popular support, to humiliate the Palestinian President and present him to his people as a collaborator with the … Read more
Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, demands of the government to reopen immediately the border crossings to the Gaza strip, which are its vital lifeline. “It was the state of Israel which decided to keep in its hands all the keys for entry into and exit from the Gaza Strip, and deny to Gazans the … Read more