More than 1700 Palestinian pilgrims returning from Mecca are waiting on a ship outside the Egyptian Red Sea port of Nuweiba after refusing to agree to return to the Gaza Strip through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing. The Gazan pilgrims have been at sea for more than 30 hours now, having forced the crew of…
Original article at New York Universsity writings of Bertell Ollman “Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe”.…
Continue Reading Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People by Bertell Ollman
Ghali Hassan at Information Clearing House, 09/26/07 A few ago, I had a long e-mail message from someone with the “Jews for Peace” group. The message starts: “I am very annoyed by your comparison of Israel with Nazi Germany … There is no Auschwitz in Palestine, and the Palestinians have not experienced a holocaust. Palestinians…
While Olmert was talking By Akiva Eldar Veteran activists of the left who have met Ehud Olmert recently report that the prime minister is determined to pull out from the territories and bring the conflict to an end. They say Olmert recognizes that a failure of the Israeli-Palestinian-American summit in Annapolis means a victory for…
Continue Reading Israel continues to Expand, While Talking Peace (Akiva Elder)
From Victoria Buch December 12, 2007 Yesterday, the seventh day of Hannuka and the second day of the fast before the Moslem holiday of El Adha, Israeli police accompanied bulldozers in a horrific day of demolitions in the unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev. 27 homes were demolished – 27 families were left homeless, with…
Continue Reading ‘A horrific day of demolitions’ (i.e. a normal day under Israeli military rule)
Haaretz Wednesday November 28, 2007 Khaled rarely takes his children to the village of his birth in the western part of the West Bank, south of Qalqilya. It’s hard for him to sit on the roof of his parents’ home and from there look out at the family land (about 500 meters away) without…
Continue Reading Orwellian Israeli Laws against Palestinians (Amira Hass in Haaretz – Hebrew only)