Month: December 2007

Haaretz reports new restrictions on Arab Christians. Father Jack Abed, a parish priest of the Melkite Catholic community near the West Bank town of Ramallah, said the new rule violated understandings between Israel and the […]

Mick Napier of Scottish PSC on  how Israel has arrived at pariah status in world opinion Israel’s popularity amongst the general public is at an all-time low, not only in Scotland and the UK, but […]

Electronic IntifadaUniversally regarded as the symbol of peace, the olive tree has become the object of violence. For more than forty years, Israel has uprooted over one million olive trees and hundreds of thousands of […]

For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish peoples, or to offer a genuine process leading towards them. […]

“My name is Sa’id Wajeeh Al Ataba, born in Nablus in 1951, I greet you, and greet every Palestinian, Arab and Muslim, from my cell in Asqalan prison, I remind you that am still here, […]

Full report at Middle East Times, Dec 20, 2007  The crowd of Hebron settlers shouted, "Gas the Arabs" and, "Death to the Arabs" as they forced open the door of Hasham al-Azzer’s home which borders the […]

Earlier this year, the Islamist Hamas party took control of Gaza, home to a thriving Christian community now preparing to celebrate their first Christmas under Hamas rule. Manawel Musallam – priest, headmaster and Gazan – […]

Report via The Electronic Intifada, 14 December 2007  JERUSALEM, 13 December (IRIN) – The isolation of the Gaza Strip is "intolerable" said a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official on 10 December, urging better access for […]