13 November 2011
Palestinian quest for statehood at the UN: where now? UN vote on Palestinian state put off amid lack of support on security council “The UN security council on Friday put off a decision on admitting Palestine as a state while the Palestinian leadership considers whether to press for a vote it is all but certain [...]
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13 November 2011
Open Letter to Netanyahu from German Jewish Forum posted at JfJfP: http://jfjfp.com/?p=26579 Press Release 09.11.11 To the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Mr. Benyamin Netanyahu Shalom, dear Prime Minister, In your address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, on 23 September 2011, you expressed your sincere wishes to extend your hand in peace. [...]
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13 November 2011
The future is now. The revolution is in progress; just wait for what’s to come. By Gideon Levy at Haaretz: http://bit.ly/tLph41 One day not long from now we will wake up to a different kind of country, the country that’s now in the making. It won’t look like the country we know, which already has [...]
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06 November 2011
For more details, see Chris Davies’ website: http://chrisdaviesmep.org.uk/ 31 October 2011 – “AN AFTERNOON IN GAZA” The sun shone. Mediterranean waves broke gently against the beach. Small children made their way from school, bags on their backs. There was no shelling. It was a nice afternoon in Gaza, and I could see the sea from my [...]
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06 November 2011
Via Jonathan Fryer’s blog: http://jonathanfryer.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/palestine-unesco-and-the-us/ The vote to accord Palestine member status at UNESCO means that the Palestinians now have their foot in the door of the United Nations and this must now make it easier for them to obtain membership of UN specialised agencies such as the WHO. Of course, the impasse regarding Palestinian membership [...]
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06 November 2011
Via Palestine Monitor: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=2780 Author: Silvia Boarini Al-Araqib and the Bedouins At the break of dawn on 27 July 2010, the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib, home to the Turi tribe, was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in black riot gear. February, 2010: Al-Araqib as it was before the mass demolition of July 2010. Helicopters [...]
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04 November 2011
The Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products Protocol (the “ACAA”) sounds extremely tedious – but please bear with us for a second because it is important. It is official Lib Dem party policy that the EU Israel Association Agreement – which gives Israel many trade privileges for its products in the EU [...]
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03 November 2011
As the pressure grows on Israel to end its illegal occupation and more and more of us become aware of the injustices against Palestinians denied their basic rights, so Israel’s government grows more repressive. The international community, with the UK playing a leading role, needs to act now. Please help campaign for Palestine by lobbying [...]
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16 October 2011
Israeli-Palestinian Prisoner Swap In the past week, Israel has agreed a historic deal with Hamas to free Gilad Shalit, held captive in Gaza for five years, offering 1027 Palestinian prisoners in return. The Israeli High Court received, and rejected, several petitions against the prisoner swap. After years of refusing to talk to Hamas, and suggesting [...]
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25 September 2011
Palestine’s bid for statehood at the UN: where are we at now? The Guardian reports that the Palestinian leadership is to press for a vote as soon as possible on its demand for full statehood at the UN security council as President Mahmoud Abbas returned to Ramallah to declare before cheering crowds that the “Palestinian [...]
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