by Omar Sha’ban - Pal-Think - 9 July 2010 GAZA CITY – The Gaza flotilla brought the blockade into sharp relief and highlighted its failures. We must seize this moment and take advantage of the world’s interest in Gaza not only to alleviate the blockade, but more importantly, to find a long term solution for [...]
Financial Times - 28 July 2010 As we all know, peace will come to the Middle East when Israel and Palestine agree to a two-state solution, with a viable Palestinian state rising from the rubble of more than 60 years of turbulence to live peacefully alongside Israel within the 1967 borders as modified through negotiation. [...]
by Yeela Ranaan, RCUV – 29 July 2010 STOP THE VIOLENT DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE OF AL ARAQIB! On Tuesday, 1,500 police accompanied about 20 tractors to demolish and erase the village of El-Araqib. Women crying, children left to sit in the shade of the home’s ruins under the summer desert sun. It is difficult [...]
IMEMC - 29 July 2010 Farmers demonstrated against the seizures of usable land for the buffer zone within Gazan territory. Wednesday, farmers in Gaza gathered in Beit Hanoun to protest the ever-expanding internal buffer zone Israel has established inside the Gaza Strip. They were protesting the ‘no-man’s land’ established by Israel as a substantial amount [...]
Haaretz - 29 July 2010 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip continued their record-setting ways on Thursday when 7,202 children flew just as many kites to set a new world record, a UN agency reported. The event, organized by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) came one week after 7,203 Gaza refugee children [...]
Aljazeera - 29 July 2010 The Arab League has declined to endorse an immediate resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, saying it needs further guarantees from the United States before approving talks. Arab foreign ministers said at a meeting in Cairo on Thursday that they agreed in principle to the direct talks, but only subject to certain “measures and conditions”. “There [...]
by Dr Salman Abu Sitta - Palestine Land Society - 16-20 July 2010 The deteriorating situation of the Palestinian cause is no secret to anyone, including Palestinians themselves and the Arab world. There is, therefore, an urgent need to review this situation and prepare a viable political agenda able to be applied. This is not [...]
by Liam Ryan - The Stonnington Leader - 27 July 2010 OUTRAGE over “propaganda” at a recent Chapel off Chapel art show has prompted an apology from Stonnington Council. But the show’s organisers are defiant, saying they were entitled to express “free speech” in the printed flyers. The Painting Blue Skies Over Gaza exhibition opened [...]
Facts about Palestine Wednesday’s “Cut & Paste” details reports made in Britain’s Daily Telegraph and Bloomberg and how they are reported in The Age. International law explicitly states that settlements are illegal and that the territory on which they are built upon (the West Bank) is in fact, occupied. Some agencies choose to ignore them. [...]
The Lancet - 2 July 2010 Executive Summary When The Lancet published its Series on Health in the occupied Palestinian territory in March, 2009, we pledged to return to the issues raised in the series in subsequent years. On March 1-2 this year, we took part in a research conference on Palestinian health that was [...]