More than a thousand international activists are due to arrive at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, including aged persons, parents with their children and handicapped people in wheelchairs. They have no intention to carry out any provocation, and there is no need to mobilize massive police forces. All that is needed is to say the … Read more
photo gallery Israel will not attack Iran. Period. The United States will not attack Iran. Period. The United States will not attack. Not this year, nor in years to come. For a reason far more important than electoral considerations or military limitations. videolink to 24.3 demo The United States will not attack, because an attack … Read more
More than six months after enactment of the “Boycott Law”, the responses of the Knesset and government to the Gush Shalom appeal against that law were at last presented to the Supreme Court. In the response which he submitted to the court, the Knesset’s legal adviser, Adv. Eyal Yinon, clearly distances himself from this law. … Read more
Benny Katzover, one of the founders and prominent leaders of the settler movement, takes off all masks. He declares himself in clear and unambiguous words to be a sworn enemy of democracy, striving to dismantle and destroy the democratic regime in Israel and replace it with a “Jewish” dictatorship of a nationalist – theocratic – … Read more
The State Attorney’s Office asked the Supreme Court judges to give them more time for answering the appeals lodged against the “Boycott Law”. It is now nearly six months since the Knesset adopted this law in a stormy late-night session. Gush Shalom appealed the very next morning, and later came additional appeals by KM Ahmad … Read more
photo gallery The Funding Prohibition Bill is aimed at peace and human rights orgs. Foreign right-wing extremist millionaires are not touched: Moskowitz can continue financing settler invasion of Palestinian neighborhoods; Adelson – continue maintaining a free daily newspaper, PM Netanyahu’s mouthpiece. “The bill to prohibit left-wing Israeli organizations from getting funding from foreign institutions, including … Read more
The release of Palestinians prisoners could be part of building trust between the two peoples “Like every Israeli citizen today, I welcome Gilad Shalit with all my heart on his return home. I am happy for his parents, who have conducted such a dedicated and persistent, touched the heartstrings and moved the government and did … Read more
12.10.11 Congratulations, first of all, to Gilad Shalit, who will at long last come out of captivity, from darkness into light, from total isolation into the maelstrom of politicians and the media. (It is to be hoped that he would be given a bit of time to be in private with his family, and that … Read more
photo gallery “Mahmoud Abbas has taken the excuses out of Netanyahu’s hands. The State of Palestine, under his leadership, is fully ready to make peace with the State of Israel on the basis of the 1967 borders, to resume negotiations if no settlement facts are created on the land subject to negotiations – but the … Read more
Following the approval of construction program at the Ramat Shlomo Neighborhood in East Jerusalem, former Knesset Member Uri Avnery says: “The government heats up the political arena instead of dealing with the wave of social protest and the tent encampments springing up throughout the country. Economic hardships brought the youngsters out into the streets and … Read more