• ‘Settlement freeze’ won’t bring about peace

    Akiva Eldar | Haaretz 26 November 2009 Newspaper headlines across the world this morning will trumpet the courageous and unprecedented initiative of Israel’s prime minister. Who could have imagined that the right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the settler Avigdor Lieberman would lend a hand to freezing settlement construction? How the settlers’ fuses will blow. Now […]

  • Israeli military confiscates electricity pylons; Palestinians prohibited from improving quality of life

    Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove 25 November 2009 For immediate release At-Tuwani, South Hebron hills – On Wednesday, 25 November, the Israeli military and police removed and confiscated two standing electricity pylons from the village of At-Tuwani. The electricity pylons had been installed by the villagers of At-Tuwani in an effort to connect to […]

  • Inside Israeli jails, the real victims of a cry for justice

    Jesse Rosenfeld | The National 24 November 2009 Amid the growing media fever over a possible prisoner swap involving the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas, another young captive has a less visible public profile – but personifies Israel’s chokehold on Palestinian self-expression. Mohammad Othman, 33, from the West Bank town […]

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