Haaretz - 28 April 2010 More than half of Jewish Israelis think human rights organizations that expose immoral behavior by Israel should not be allowed to operate freely, and think there is too much freedom of expression here, a recent survey found. The survey, commissioned by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel [...]
Yahoo News - 27 April 2010 UN chief Ban Ki-moon renewed his backing for the US push for indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, in a telephone conversation with US envoy George Mitchell, his press office said Tuesday. A UN statement said Ban and Mitchell spoke by telephone Monday afternoon about the “continuing US efforts to launch [...]
by Ali Abunimah - The Hill - 29 April 2010 Pretoria, South Africa – A new conventional wisdom is rapidly taking shape that the United States can resolve the 130-year-old conflict in Palestine by advancing its own peace plan. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Solarz outlined such a plan, and argued that President Obama could boost [...]
Ma’an News Agency - 29 April 2010 A Rafah man was injured during a demonstration against the Israeli-enforced no-go zone along the Gaza-Israel border on Thursday, as the rallies continue to end in bloodshed. Ziad As-Sarafandi, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Buffer Zone in Rafah where the demonstration took place, said Israeli troops [...]
by Norman Finkelstein - The Electronic Intifada - 26 April 2010 To preserve my sense of purpose, and keep the Palestine struggle from becoming a lifeless abstraction, I need periodically to recharge my moral batteries by reconnecting with the actual people living under occupation and by witnessing firsthand the unfolding tragedy. From each trip I [...]
In Washington-speak, “Palestinian State means “Fried Chicken” The Huffington Post - 27 April 2010 The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but [...]
Dr MAZIN QUMSIYEH is a tireless activist for Palestinian human rights who returned to his hometown of Beit Sahour in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last year and now teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. The author of Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle (2004), Qumsiyeh is both a human rights [...]
Ma’an News Agency - 28 April 2010 A 21-year-old man protesting Israel’s no-go zone in Gaza was killed on Wednesday, after Israeli forces opened fire on the march and hit the young man in the leg. Medics said he died in hospital. The man, identified by activists as Ahmad Salem Deeb, was the fourth to [...]
Ma’an News Agency - 28 April 2010 EU High Representative Catherine Ashton said on Tuesday, that Europe was “concerned by the public statements that have been exchanged recently between various parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.” The statement sparked a flurry of interpretations, with most papers agreeing that allegations referred to Scud [...]
by Jonathan Lis and Jack Khoury - Haaretz - 28 April 2010 The Knesset may withdraw parliamentary immunity from six lawmakers who traveled to Libya to meet the country’s leader Moammar Gadhafi, the chairman of the chamber’s House Committee Yariv Levin said on Wednesday. “Knesset immunity is not a license to inflict continual damage on [...]