“Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Peretz both excel in throwing out colorful balls called “humanitarian gestures” and “political plans”, which sound nice but have little relation to reality” says Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.“The situation on the ground is that occupation and settlement continue and increase. A thousand new housing units are planned … Read more
The deadly raid in Ramallah is an aggressive and dangerous provocation. This is not the way to build a cease-fire, nor anyway helpful to advance peace. At the very hour when the Prime Minister of the State of Israel and the President of Egypt held a meeting which is supposed to bring us back on … Read more
Offering some lame “gestures” to the Palestinians and at the same time building a new settlement on Palestinian land proves that Olmert does not seriously intend to end the occupation. The creation of the new settlement “Maskiot “ in the Northern Jordan Valley Region of the West Bank proves the fatuity of the so-called ‘good … Read more
The bulldozers are already working directly in front of the school, and the student cafeteria built at considerable expense is about to be demolished. But the director is more worried about the fact that erection of the Wall would prevent Israelis from coming to visit the school and hold peace dialogue meetings in it. In … Read more
.“This street is for Jews only” said the soldiers guarding the roadblock at the entrance of the Shuhada Street in Hebron on the West Bank, and refused to let Palestinians and international peace activists pass.“I was there when it happened. The soldier who talked to us did not say these things at his own initiative. … Read more
.No wonder that racism manifests itself in practice in a country where an outspoken racist gets appointed as “Minister for Strategic Affairs” and a mayor can make crude racist insults in public. The Government of Israel Demolished an Entire Bedouin Village Today in the Negev In a country where an outspoken racist gets appointed as … Read more
By Israeli and international law alike, the Green Line is Israel’s border. It is not the act of the Education Minister which is ‘political’, but rather the situation in which Israeli pupils have been presented with false maps depicting an occupied territory as if it were part of Israel so that settlement and annexation plans … Read more
“We firmly oppose Olmert’s attempt to expel you from Jerusalem!” said former Knesset Member Uri Avnery, a leading member of Gush Shalom (the Israeli Peace Bloc), during a meeting with Sheikh Muhammad Abu-Tir, Hamas Member of the Palestinian Legislative council from Jerusalem.The meeting took place at Abu-Tir’s home at Zur Baher Neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. … Read more
A thousand demonstrators, Palestinians, Israelis and internationals protested the building of the stretch of Wall next to Imatin.”This is not a Security Fence, but a way to rob Palestinians of their land and add it to the Immanuel settlement.””The route of the Wall penetrates 17 kilometer into the West Bank and usurpes a big part … Read more
Negev Bedouins to sew government for massive crop destruction ” The Bedouin are not squatters – government act was totally illegal “ After taking legal advice, Bedouin inhabitants of the Negev intend to sew the government ofIsrael for major damages, following a massive destruction of their crops bygovernment-chartered tractors earlier this week. The Bedouin are … Read more