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Help Internationals jailed in Israel

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Friends, Thank you to everyone that mobilized around the detention of the 13 ISM activists after theThursday May 3 effort to take food and put an international human shield inside the Church ofthe Nativity in Bethlehem. Here is a brief update about all of us, and a plea for more action: Ida Fasten (Sweden) – … Read more

A Meeting with Arafat

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“They want us to enact a constitution? No problem! I shall ask Israel to send me a copy of theirs and copy it word for word!” Arafat sent me an amused look. Israel, of course, has no constitution. That was on Wednesday evening, after five Gush Shalom activists – Haim Hanegbi, Adam Keller, Oren Medicks, … Read more

The solution is the problem:

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The GuardianThe US presents itself as the peace-broker in the Middle East. The reality is different A year ago, the Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling observed that ” what wefeared has come true – War appears an unavoidable fate ” , an ” evil colonial ” war. His colleague Ze’ev Sternhell noted that the Israeli … Read more

Shielding visit to the Mukata’a

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photo gallery Immediately after the terror attack in Rishon Lezion, we sensed that Sharonmight be greatly tempted to attack the Mukata’a again. This time not doinghalf a job… We decided to send a mission, that will stay in the Mukata’a for the immediateperiod after the terror attack. The reason being, that presence of Israelicitizens in … Read more

Shielding visit to the Mukata’a

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photo gallery Immediately after the terror attack in Rishon Lezion, we sensed that Sharonmight be greatly tempted to attack the Mukata’a again. This time not doinghalf a job… We decided to send a mission, that will stay in the Mukata’a for the immediateperiod after the terror attack. The reason being, that presence of Israelicitizens in … Read more