Author: ISM Media Group

  • Open letter to AP

    Dear AP bureau chiefs and editors Re: Your article ‘U.S.: Bush won’t hold three-way meet during Mideast visit’, 8th May 2008 We were greatly disturbed to read this paragraph in the above article. “Both sides in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian dispute have failed to take basic trust-building steps considered necessary for successful negotiations to move forward…

  • The Guardian: Reality check

    Despite the rhetoric of peace, on the ground the lives of Palestinians are being made worse by countless checkpoints By Ben White To view original article, published in The Guardian on the 14th May 2008, click here As Bush arrives in Israel, I remember a moment when the gulf between the language of the official…

  • LA Times: Forget the two-state solution Israelis and Palestinians must share the land. Equally.

    By Saree Makdisi To view original article, published in the LA Times on the 11th May 2008, click here There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Forget the endless arguments about who offered what and who spurned whom and whether the Oslo peace process died when Yasser Arafat walked away from…