07 February 2012
Fatah-Hamas unity government deal: Israel condemns move Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the Palestinian Authority must choose between a treaty with Hamas “or peace with Israel”. Media commentators in the Middle East have expressed both hope and doubt about the agreement between the two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, on the formation of [...]
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03 February 2012
Via Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network Feb 2nd, 2012 – At this time, we were supposed to meet with the United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon who is visiting Gaza today. We were also supposed to deliver to him an open letter expressing our demands and expectations from him as a Secretary-General of the United Nations. Over [...]
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24 January 2012
By Martin Linton at the New Statesman Raya is from Haifa and her husband Issam is from a village just 15 minutes’ drive from the centre of Jerusalem, as close as Harrow to London. But he cannot live with his wife and children in their north Jerusalem home because his village lies outside the city [...]
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15 January 2012
The LDFP round-up of recent news and views from Israel and Palestine Press Release from Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Israeli Courts Insist on Decisions Depriving Palestinian Victims of Access to Justice and Judicial Remedy and Making It Impossible Palestinian Authority sceptical as 3rd round of Amman talks begin Israeli and Palestinians set [...]
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15 January 2012
Author: Amira Hass. Via Haaretz website On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not fair that the officer who then served as [...]
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29 December 2011
Via Electronic Intifada, by Asa Winstanley An influential UK charity denounced Jewish critics of Israel in secret reports to the government earlier this year, The Electronic Intifada has learned. The Community Security Trust (CST) is known for its work recording anti-Semitic attacks and for security patrols at Jewish communal events. But evidence uncovered by The Electronic Intifada suggests the CST works behind the [...]
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19 December 2011
Via: Foundation for Middle East Peace Settlement Report | Vol. 21 No. 6 | November-December 2011 By Geoffrey Aronson The Madrid Peace Conference convened two decades ago in a spirit of great optimism. However it was Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, dragged to the meeting by President George H.W. Bush, who offered the most prescient commentary [...]
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15 December 2011
Via the Huffington Post, by Joel D. Scheinert, Lawyer. “This time they went too far. On Tuesday morning a group of 50 right wing, ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers broke into a West Bank Israeli military base and burned tires, vandalized property, threw rocks at the jeep of a senior officer and spread nails on the road. One Israeli [...]
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11 December 2011
After the statehood bid… United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said last Wednesday the Palestinian flag would be raised at its Paris headquarters tomorrow after Palestine won full membership despite Israeli and US objections. The flag will be raised on Tuesday “to mark Palestine’s admission to the organisation” in the presence of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas [...]
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06 December 2011
via the Jewish Chronicle November 24, 2011: Report by MEC Business Intelligence Consultants (www.meconsult.co.uk) of a visit to Gaza three weeks ago, published on the Conservative Middle East Council website. Sir Robert Atkins is a Conservative member of the European Parliament and former minister. Yet again, Israel refused us access via its crossing-point so we [...]
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