photo gallery Tonight’s ceasefire put an end to a week of brutal warfare which caused suffering on both sides of the border. At least, the Government of Israel was able to understand the limitations of power and stop the war before implementing the threatened ground invasion which would have multiplied the destruction and bloodshed and … Read more
photo gallery The name chosen for the new war in Gaza is “operation Cloud Pillar”. A far more appropriate name would have been “Operation Short Memory” Said former Knesset member Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom activist. “Prime Minister Netanyahu is counting on the public’s short memory. Netanyahu counts upon people forgetting that dozens and even hundreds … Read more
photo gallery Gush Shalom joins the call of peace and human rights groups to hold a protest against the war in Gaza today (Thursday Nov. 15) at 7:00 pm in front of the Likud headquarters at 38 King George Street, Tel Aviv and at the same time also in Haifa at Beit Hagefen (Hagefen St. … Read more
photo gallery Gush Shalom to Israeli decision makers: Avoid another show of brute force in international waters and let the Estelle dock at the Port of Gaza – while implementing a UN inspection of her cargo, to which the activists specifically consent. background (from the Ship to Gaza press release): Israeli peace activist Yonatan Shapira, … Read more
Bibi and Barak now inform us that they intend to launch an attack in the fall. The military leadership is opposed to it, civilians will be killed, the Iranian nuclear program will not be stopped, and a political solution will be even further away from achievement. We must not sit back and let this happen! … Read more
photo gallery Edmond Levy took off the robe of a Supreme Court judge – and under it was revealed a shyster, a Likud Party hack providing his client with a highly dubious, made-to-order legal opinion. After 45 years of oppressive military rule former judge Levy discovered that the West Bank is “not an Occupied Territory” … Read more
photo gallery On the night of June 9, Gush Shalom joined with various other peace and human rights groups in marking the occupation anniversary on the streets of Tel Aviv. Read how it was reported on Y-net Read also how Adam Keller puts the occupation in perspective photo gallery On the night of June 9, … Read more
A lie does not become a truth, even if repeated forty-five times. Jerusalem is a not a united city, and has never been a united city in the forty-five years since 1967. East Jerusalem is a Palestinian area under occupation rule. Just so is it treated by the governmental and municipal authorities of the State … Read more
The government of Israel had no choice but to reach an agreement at the last minute with the hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners and accept a significant part of their demands. Had the hunger strike continued and led to the death of some of the strikers, it would have caused a general conflagration in the Occupied Territories. … Read more
“In the height of demagoguery, Binyamin Netanyahu calls upon peace and human rights activists to go Syria and Iran, and this pack of absurdities go echoing though the official and unofficial government mouthpieces. The Prime Minister did not notice that exactly by making this comparison he is putting the State of Israel on one level … Read more