Naomi Wimborne-IdrissiPublished in The Scotsman22 August 2012Protests against Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company performing at the Edinburgh International Festival are attracting support from contemporary dance figures including Alain Platel, founder of the Belgian dance company Les Ballets C de la B, and UK choreographer Jonathan Burrows. Both have endorsed statements opposing the participation of Batsheva because…
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David Recruited to Expel Palestinians – When Archaeology Becomes a Curseby Jonathan Cook 28 September 2008 “…no physical evidence shows that King David ever used the buildings. Little more can be deduced than that the remains date to the Canaanite period 3,000 years ago. “Even if we did find a Hebrew inscription saying ‘Welcome to…
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29 November 2007 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. The two-state solution ignores the physical and political realities on the ground, and presumes a false parity…
If settlements are ‘legal’, the ground is laid for annexationJonathan Cook Jul 18, 2012 Recent European Union reports have used unprecedented language to criticise Israel for the “forced transfer” – diplomat-speak for ethnic cleansing – of Palestinians out of Area C into the West Bank’s cities, which fall under Palestinian control. The EU notes that…
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by Jonathan Cookantiwar.com 20 January 2007 When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I sought not only to explain what lay behind Israeli policies since the failed Camp David negotiations nearly seven years ago, including the disengagement from Gaza and the building of a wall across the West Bank, but I also…
The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likelyby Alain Gresh Le Monde Diplomatique 28 December 2011 “Israeli tanks and aircraft reduced buildings to rubble and killed hundreds of civilians in what the Goldstone report describes as ‘war crimes’ and probably ‘crimes against humanity’. But…