Month: December 2007

Thirty years after late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, Egyptian diplomatic relations with the Hebrew state remain cordial. On a popular level, however, the relationship — buttressed by the 1979 Camp David […]

Live from Palestine, 20 December 2007 A 500-meter-long street in the heart of Gaza City is empty of cars and vehicles, but full of men, women and children. Omar al-Mokhtar Street is considered the largest […]

By Scott Wilson  Washington Post  Saturday, December 15, 2007 GAZA CITY — The batteries are the size of a button on a man`s shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian […]

Ahmed Khalidi Guardian Dec 13, 2007 "Today, the Palestinian state is largely a punitive construct devised by the Palestinians’ worst historical enemies: Israel and its implacable ally, the US. The intention behind the state today […]

John Pilger, Z Net, December 16, 2007 When Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke recently about his government’s devotion to the United States, "founded on the values we share", he was echoing his Foreign Office minister […]

1. Read the motion and sign the petition. Get friends, family, contacts to do the same. 2. Go here, type in your postcode, and click on your address to find out your electoral Ward and […]

Published: 21 December 2007Jerusalem Post The Edinburgh City Council has rejected a recent call to boycott the Israeli bottled water company Mei Eden, the Stop the Boycott advocacy group announced Friday. The call to boycott […]

Thatcher’s law designed to protect South African apartheid used to protect apartheid Israel from boycott Israeli company denies it is Israeli Royal Bank of Scotland finances Eden Springs’ Israeli parent company On Thursday next (20 […]

Dear Sir/Madam We are writing to you to ask you to refuse Eden Springs a contract to supply bottled water coolers to 41 of Scotland’s Higher and Further Education institutions, including our own, on the grounds […]