by Jon Elmer The New Standard Situated on a hill overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the new Israeli housing development looks like it could be an upscale planned community in suburban North America: a billboard solicits buyers for “phase ...
Read More »The Gaza Disengagement and the Prospect of Further Human Rights Violations
by Ilan Pappe There is an amazing gap between the global discourse on the Gaza Disengagement Plan of the Sharon government and the local realities on the ground. Whereas the Israeli pullout is being portrayed in international public fora as ...
Read More »Is this a real move to peace?
by K. Flo Razowsky Originally in The Minneapolis Star Tribune According to the international media, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip is an unprecedented move toward peace. The situation on the ground demands further inspection. Daily, ...
Read More »Fact Sheet: The Smokescreen of the Gaza Disengagement
An International Solidarity Movement Fact sheet With the deluge of coverage about Israel’s “disengagement” from Gaza, it’s easy to be lulled into the idea that the “road map” to peace in the region is moving ahead and that the occupation ...
Read More »Belfast women protest expansion of settlements in the West Bank
A group of women from the Falls Road, Women’s Centre in Belfast, Ireland, today joined the International Women’s Peace Service in a demonstration against the expansion of settlements in Palestine’s West Bank. About 60 women, many from an international organization ...
Read More »Settlers attempt large-scale assault on Palestinian village
Settlers on Wednesday from the illegal Israeli settlement of Sanur near Jenin — due to be evacuated as part of Israel’s “disengagement” plan — attempted to launch an assault on the Palestinian village of Assa’sa, clashing with the Israeli soldiers ...
Read More »Threats and worry in al-Asa’asa on the eve of Israeli disengagement
by Lee Al-Asa’asa is a village of 500 situated right next to the settlement of SaNur. Radical anti disengagement settlers from all over the West Bank, many from Hebron, have camped out at SaNur, surrounding the small military settlement with ...
Read More »In Gaza, we don’t yet see the peace that’s supposed to be in the plan
by Khaled Nasrallah If you asked me about the withdraw from Gaza, I would tell you that sure, it’s a step ahead. That is, if it really is something that is a start toward real peace. Is it? Real peace ...
Read More »The Gaza Disengagement Plan’s Impact on the West Bank
by the Palestine Center staff It is difficult to imagine a situation more terrifying and bleak. Isolated and without any means to determine their own destiny, Palestinians will soon be forced to live their lives as prisoners in a cell. ...
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