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
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 prisoners should have been released long ago, including Marwan Barghouti whose conviction resulted from a show trial. Gush Shalom: We all have blood on our hands. The ministers of the Government of Israel and generals of the IDF, together with their predecessors, are responsible for the death of hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians, … Read more
Gush Shalom: The army is surrendering without conditions to the settler violence. A week ago the settlers threatened, on the pages of their paper “B’sheva”, to beat up any soldier who stands in their way to the ruins of Homesh settlement “until his own mother would not recognize him”. Instead of locating those who made … Read more
The settlers who intend to re-establish next week the evacuated “Homesh” settlement in the northern West Bank threaten to beat up any soldier who stands in their way “until his own mother would not recognise him”. The bald threat was made by one of the Homesh re-building organisers on the pages of the settler paper … Read more
Gush Shalom sent telegrams to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and to Prime Minister Isma’il Haniya, congratulating them for the formation of the Palestinian Unity Government: “The creation of a government representing all the main Palestinian factions, and which commits itself to respect previous agreements and to open negotiations with Israel, is an piece … Read more
Peretz and Olmert prove again that the Palestinians have no Israeli partner.“The army’s massive invasion into the heart of Palestinian Nablus is an irresponsible provocation, manifesting a policy of blind brute force” says Gush Shalom- The Israeli Peace Bloc. “Again, Ehud Olmert and Amir Peretz, the partners of the arch-racist Lieberman, prove that the Palestinians … Read more
-300 Israelis succeeded in bypassing army road-blocks and arriving at the Bil’in protest-Military forces shoot tear gas and a water cannon at anti-Wall demonstrators-Several wounded demonstrators being treated by Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi, Member of the Palestinian ParliamentUri Avnery to the soldiers: You are not defending Israel’s security but the profits of settler real estate sharks … Read more
Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, along with peace forces throughout the world, welcomes the Palestinian unity agreement.In this agreement, Hamas undertakes to respect the Oslo accords, which are based on the mutual recognition of the State of Israel and the Palestinian people. The new Palestinian government, which will include all the main political representatives … Read more
On the day when Dan Halutz entered upon his career as Army Chief of Staff, activists of Gush Shalom and Yesh Gvul stood protesting outside. We flew across the Defence Ministry walls little paper airplanes bearing quotations from Halutz’s infamous interview, where he stated that he was sleeping well at night after his pilots had … Read more