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Abbas demands final status talks or nothing as he heads to Egypt summit
(Via: Independent)
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, is demanding that next Monday’s scheduled summit with Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, contains a discussion over “final status” talks on a future Palestinian state, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
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Mr Abbas is reportedly insisting that the summit, [...]
The new job will be …”managing” Iraq/Afghanistan/Palestine wreckage …for decades…
George Bush and Tony Blair have discussed the possibility of the prime minister becoming a Middle East special envoy after he leaves office next week.
While Downing Street refused to comment on mounting speculation about such a move, US officials indicated that the subject has been discussed [...]
Yesterday, on the anniversary of the Israeli attacks on Arab states in 1967, The Guardian published two op-eds, which really say it all.
In the first one, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh clearly sets out the Palestinians desire for peace. He said:
The first step to change this catastrophic climate is for the west to engage with [...]
I think this is a very thought-provoking article and a must read by our fellow Americans, specially the silent majority:
How willing are we to be inconvenienced to get peace/justice?
by MBQ June 5, 2007
An old saying in the fight against segregation in the South was “free your mind and your ass will follow”. I was [...]
The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries.
According to the Global Peace Index, created by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Norway is the most peaceful nation and Iraq is the least, just after Israel and Sudan. The survey places [...]
Israeli Friends of Bil’in is a group composed of Israeli individuals and organizations who oppose the construction of Israel’s “separation fence” on the land of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, and of the construction of the Israeli settlement of Matityau East, also on the village’s land.
They have written a letter addressed to the consulates and [...]
VIGIL and showing of THE IRON WALL
Vigil for Palestine in St. Mark’s May 18
Vigil: 5:00 - 6:00 soup: 6-6:30
Film: THE IRON WALL, produced in Palestine
THE IRON WALL provides graphic evidence of the intentions of Zionist leaders: “Zionist colonization must . . .proceed regardless of the native population . . . which means putting them behind [...]
Washington, DC, June 10-11
JOIN US IN PROTESTING THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Tens of thousands to mobilize for protest rally and lobbying day on June 9th and 10th in Washington, DC.
The Council for the National Interest Foundation invites its supporters to Washington, DC, to attend The World Says NO to Israeli Occupation, a two-day [...]
1. What ‘Israel’s right to exist’ means to Palestinians
By John V. Whitbeck (Source: The Christian Science Monitor)
“Recognizing Israel” or any other state is a formal legal and diplomatic act by one state with respect to another state. It is inappropriate – indeed, nonsensical – to talk about a political party or movement extending diplomatic recognition [...]
In the U.S., the issue is framed as “Immigration”
The face of the issue is framed as a brown skinned Mexican man.
And yet, all you have to do is scrape just a little under the surface to know what immigration really means and who it effects.
750+ Immigrants Detained in “Operation Return To Sender” Raids
Immigrant youth shelter [...]
By now, most of you have heard of Azmi Bishara. If not, Dr. Bishara is the Head of the National Democratic Assembly political party in Israel, a Christian Palestinian and a citizen of Israel who USED to represents Israel’s Palestinian minority in the Knesset until few days ago.
In this remarkable 30 minutes speech presented at [...]
[Image by Carlos Latuff]
By Uri Avnery’s - Gush Shalom
14/04/07
AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing.
The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”.
The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like goods, for which the officials [...]
“The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow. Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that “there is no partner” for peace and that “the time [...]
By the time of writing this, there are over 308 blogs joined together on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, standing in opposition. By the sixth anniversary, their hope is to have 1,000,000 blogs united in the same purpose.
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Last year I published the speech of Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan*; an Israeli women who lost her daughter to a Palestinian suicide bombing (a must read if you haven’t done before. Today I came across another two speeches by the same Israeli mother, which I think are also a must read/listen and watch.
Please take the time [...]
Foreign observers of Israel tend to focus so intently on the dangers the country faces from its Arab neighbors that they have largely missed an astonishing story that has been accelerating over the past few months: that of the Jewish state’s possible move toward internal collapse. If you consider this an exaggeration, just take note [...]
Let’s take some actions tonight:
1. Write to them:
The upcoming attack on Iran is (mis)calculated by the same war mongers (perhaps we should start calling it Zionist/military/industrial complex who hijacked the US government and both major parties in the US). They do not know what they will be unleashing but think foolishly that it would save [...]
The New York Times has a cool tool which you can search Bush’s SOTU speeches for any word or phrase and visualize how many times it was said since 2001 until 2007.
It is interesting enough tool to make a little search and see where do some ‘Iraq related’ statements stand, especially that I’m talking too [...]
Little bit lengthy, but worth the time. And it is good read for people like, Dawn to learn something about the history of the conflict and the real obstacles for peace!
Hurricane Carter
by HENRY SIEGMAN - The Nation
[from the January 22, 2007 issue]
Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, provoked [...]
This is very long article, if you don’t have the time to read it now, save it for other time as it is a “must read”!
The Problem with Israel
Jeff Halper
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Let’s be honest (for once): The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinian people, not Hamas, not the Arabs, not Hezbollah [...]
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