03 July 2011
News Update for LDFP mailing list: Greek coastguard forces Gaza ‘freedom flotilla’ vessel back to port: An attempt by one of the Gaza-bound “freedom flotilla” ships to defy the Greek government and escape from port was thwarted on Monday when armed coastguard officials caught up with the vessel and forced it back to shore. Palestine Advances [...]
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25 June 2011
Why the British Government should recognise the independent State of Palestine and its Territorial Integrity A Caabu Briefing Paper by John McHugo 1. Introduction 1.1 The Oslo Accords which were intended to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians were signed as long ago as 1993. Yet today what is still called the “peace process” [...]
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18 June 2011
‘’Dreams in Black and White,’’ by Mohammed Joha, a series of paintings, photographs and an installation currently exhibiting in the ‘Mosaic Rooms,’ has the bleak landscape of the most bitter protest art. Joha’s subject is war, occupation and imprisonment as they affect children. Corpse-like semblances of rag dolls occupy each canvas. The trade- mark single eye [...]
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24 May 2011
On Sunday 29 May at The North Wall Arts Centre there will be an evening of fundraising with all proceeds going towards bringing young people from Gaza and Ramallah to Oxford in July 2011 when they will participate in an international festival at the Pegasus Youth Theatre. The evening is organised by Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association [...]
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23 May 2011
Dear All, Well the part of work for EAPPI which takes place here in Israel and Palestine is now done. I didn’t intend to write anymore articles but a few days ago I met three parents whose stories deserve to be told. For now I will tell you just one of them; the least shocking. Remember that [...]
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23 May 2011
Politics cannot be far absent from a father and son meeting in a military cemetery in Israel. But those who go to Doug Watkinson’s new play ‘The Wall’, at the New End Theatre, expecting only Middle East politics, may be disappointed. The central issue of this often moving play is the father – son relationship, and [...]
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15 May 2011
15th May marks Nakba Day for Palestinians. Following the uprisings elsewhere in the Middle East and a well-organised internal campaign, thousands of Palestinians and their supporters were embroiled in deadly confrontations with the Israeli army as protests erupting across the Palestinian territories, Israel and its borders with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan were met with live fire, rubber bullets, stun [...]
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08 May 2011
The Middle East unrest has cost many innocent lives. But there are prizes among the turmoil and one in particular stands out. Hamas and Fatah, bitter enemies for the last four years, signed a peace deal on Wednesday in Cairo which called for the setting up of a unity government to end the division of [...]
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03 May 2011
On Sunday, June 12 2011, Ride to Gaza with support from Tyneside PSC, Tyneside Stop the War Coalition and local councillor Dipu Ahad are holding a Gaza Awareness Conference with all proceeds going to Ride to Gaza who will use this to provide kindergartens in the refugee camps of Gaza through a partner there, Help [...]
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02 May 2011
Fatah/Hamas deal: update for LDFP readers On Wednesday Fatah and Hamas claimed to have put differences behind them and will seek to establish an interim national unity government. Benjamin Netanyahu’s initial reaction: “The Palestinian Authority must choose between peace with Israel or peace with Hamas… There cannot be peace with both because Hamas strives to [...]
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