By: Sean Condon With photos of women in black bikinis striking provocative poses, Maxim magazine devoted five full pages in their July 2007 issue to answer the single most pressing question in the Middle East: “Are the women in the ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: Protesters block Highway 443 to protest ban on Palestinian traffic
Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators blocked Highway 443 early Thursday morning to protest the ban on Palestinian vehicles from the road, which is a major artery connecting Jerusalem to Lod, Army Radio reported. The protesters, a coalition of Jewish and Arab ...
Read More »Seattle P-I: Palestinians’ lives invisible to Israelis
By Edward Mast On a visit to Tel Aviv last month, I asked some Israeli friends what people in Israel were saying about the Palestinian situation. Not much, they told me. Israelis are more concerned about the corruption charges against ...
Read More »Daily News Egypt: US court dismisses Caterpillar case filed by Rachel Corrie and Palestinian families
By: Jonas Moffat In September, a US Court of Appeals dismissed a case against Caterpillar, Inc., which alleged seven claims, including aiding and abetting war crimes, extrajudicial killing, wrongful death, and other serious human rights violations. The Center for Constitutional ...
Read More »Another Voice: OneVoice’s False Assertions
When Another Voice first took issue with OneVoice’s program and planned concerts, our concerns were based on OneVoice’s 10 pillars, which are problematic for a number of reasons; we were troubled by the methods in which OneVoice was seeking to ...
Read More »Another Voice: Surrender on the Dotted Line; An Analysis of OneVoice’s 10 Pillars
October 21st, 2007 Despite OneVoice’s recent efforts to minimize the attention on its “10 Pillars,” especially in the wake of widespread grassroots criticism, the fact remains that OneVoice created these 10 pillars to present as a basis for negotiations, under ...
Read More »Guardian: The moderate blindfold
By: Ben White October 19, 2007 We’ve had Live 8 and Live Earth, and this week, albeit on a smaller scale, we almost had One Million Voices. Organised by the OneVoice group, the declared aim was to bring together Palestinians ...
Read More »ZNet: Formalizing Apartheid Masked as a Peace Initiative
by Neta Golan and Mohammed Khatib October 13, 2007 Next month the US plans to host a regional meeting to discuss peace in the Middle East, or at least peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The maneuvering, deal making and ...
Read More »Jerusalem Post: ‘I didn’t suggest we kill Palestinians’
By Ruthie Blum, Oct. 10, 2007 Arnon Soffer arrives at our meeting armed with a stack of books and papers. Among them is a copy of an interview I conducted with him three and a half years ago (“It’s the ...
Read More »BBC: Hope flowers for West Bank school
By Raffi Berg For the Palestinian children of Hope Flowers School, violence and conflict is a part of everyday life. Just six km (four miles) from Jerusalem, their village has seen repeated Israeli incursions, shootings and demolitions by the army. ...
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