We Cannot Allow These Murders to Go Unpunished We can demand these homicidal Israeli soldiers be prosecuted for war crimes by Sir Gerald Kaufman MP http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0412-26.htm In a marvellous book of essays, “The Slopes of Lebanon,” the great Israeli novelist ...
Read More »MP’s call for sanctions against Israel over shootings
From The Telegraph Economic sanctions against Israel should be considered if the country refuses to put its soldiers before the courts in the UK over the death of two British peace activists, an MP has said. Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour ...
Read More »Calls for UK to act over Britons shot dead in Gaza
From The Guardian The attorney general was last night called on to seek war crimes charges against five Israeli officers after an inquest jury found that a soldier under their command intentionally killed a British peace activist in Gaza. Tom ...
Read More »Israel to boycott inquest into death of British peace activist shot in Gaza
From The Guardian Monday April 10, 2006 Israel will boycott an inquest opening today in London which will investigate the death of a British peace activist shot dead in broad daylight by an Israeli soldier. Tom Hurndall, 22, died after ...
Read More »British peace activist was ‘intentionally killed’
From Guardian Unlimited Monday April 10, 2006 A jury has ruled that a British activist shot while acting as a human shield in the Gaza Strip was “intentionally killed”. Tom Hurndall, from north London, was wearing an orange jacket to ...
Read More »The hope for a peaceful solution?
Palestinian and Israeli Activists Demonstrate Together in Bil’in Joel Beinin has written a thought provoking review of Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace in the April 17th issue of The Nation. It’s well worth reading in full, and ...
Read More »Family of shot journalist accuse Israel
Vikram Dodd Tuesday April 4, 2006 The Guardian The family of a British cameraman shot dead by an Israeli soldier claimed yesterday that both the Foreign Office and the Israeli authorities had obstructed their search for justice. James Miller, 34, ...
Read More »Separation wall ‘drowns’ Palestinian
By Laila El-Haddad From AlJazeera.net A Palestinian man has drowned in the West Bank after getting entangled in the separation barrier’s barbed wire during flash floods, medical officials and witnesses say. According to witnesses, heavy rains followed by flash foods ...
Read More »Rachel Corrie is the new Anne Frank
1) Katharine Viner, co-editor of the play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie”, on the controversy over the postponement of her play. Link 2) Debate Between NY Theater Workshop and Katharine Viner. Transcript MP3 Download 3) Democracy Now, Rachel Corrie’s Parents ...
Read More »Palestinians, U.S. citizen complain of Hebron settler violence
By Amos Harel and Michal Greenberg, Haaretz Correspondents for Haaretz Several Palestinians and an American volunteer in the West Bank on Sunday filed complaints with the police, accusing settlers of violence toward Palestinians in the Hebron area on Saturday, after ...
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