An update on the story that Israeli politician Tzipi Livni is avoiding the UK due to concerns over her legal safety: Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports on Monday that a British court issued an arrest warrant against opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza…
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Not forgetting the war that never ended in Gaza
Nearly one year after Israel’s onslaught against Gaza, the wounds are still fresh. The Independent has published a detailed accounting of the carnage: Hilmi Samouni still hopes at some point – “inshallah” – to go back to his old job as a kitchen assistant in the Palmyra, Gaza City’s best known shwarma restaurant. But unlike…
How dare you ask anything from us, spits Israel
The Israeli government is desperate to never give up occupied territory and will bluster its way through murky international waters. Here’s why: Defense establishment officials said Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority is orchestrating a diplomatic campaign with the international community to coerce Israel into accepting a political arrangement which would pave the way for the…
Why the Gaza Freedom March is happening
Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin is a key organiser of the upcoming Gaza Freedom March. Here’s her latest report on the under-taking: Over 1,000 delegates from 42 countries have signed up to participate in the December 31 Gaza Freedom March that will mark the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion and call for an end to…
Gaza needs yet another barrier to freedom, clearly
Yet another sign that the Israeli/Egyptian/American axis is giving the Palestinians in Gaza a rough deal: Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned. When it is finished the wall will be 10-11km (6-7 miles) long and…
Blocked from working towards a better Palestinian future
Gisha, Israel’s major human rights group that documents freedom of movement, highlights a shocking decision by Israel’s High Court (background to the case here): Israel’s High Court of Justice today decided not to allow Berlanty Azzam, a 22-year-old student who was forcibly removed to the Gaza Strip six weeks ago, to return to Bethlehem University…
Water makes the world go around (if Palestinians could access it)
Oxfam highlights a largely ignored issue in the Middle East: Don’t drink the water! EWASH Advocacy Task Force challenges international consul generals to drink water from Gaza, West Bank The Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Advocacy (EWASH) Task Force will be distributing water collected from communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to consul…
Palestinian Christians want BDS
An important statement on behalf of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel: Senior Palestinian Christians from all the denominations in the Holy Land will call this week for economic sanctions and boycott of Israel to end its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, echoing a call by black South African theologians at…
What it means to advocate the ”˜Sri Lanka model’ for Israel/Palestine
My following article is published on US website Mondoweiss: It is easy to frame the conflict in Israel and Palestine as inherently unique. In many ways it is – decades-old occupation, US-supported racial discrimination and failure of Western journalism to hold the powerful to account – but other struggles have eerie similarities. This year Sri…
Swimming in the dirty sea of Gaza
This week’s news from the wonderful blog Gaza Gateway (here’s last week’s edition): It’s become almost common knowledge that on any given day, anywhere from 40-50 million liters of untreated or partially treated sewage flow from Gaza’s sewage treatment plants into the Mediterranean Sea, and an additional 20 million liters seep into the ground, threatening…