By Uri Avnery 28.6.03 Today an important event took place in Ramallah. Three hundred personalities, half of them Palestinians, half of them Israelis, took part in the founding conference of the first wholly integrated joint peace organization – the Joint Israeli-Palestinian Action Group for Peace.
The tree of life my soul hath seen, Laden with fruit and olive green; The tree of life my soul hath seen, Its fruit my livelihood has been; But Israel, now it takes from me The Palestinian Olive Tree.
By Roy Reece Palestinians are a warm loving race You must know they were here in the first place How can you be so cruel and mean The worst wrong the wolrd has seen
by Yossi Alpher An Israeli View As readers of this column know by now, writing “Dear. . . . .” columns to prominent leaders is not my style. But today in the Israeli-Palestinian sphere so much rides on the determination and commitment of United States President George W. Bush, that I simply cannot find a [...]
by Ghassan Khatib Dear Members of the Quartet, Your reconvening on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Jordan was an encouraging signal from a Palestinian point of view. It comes at a time that the United States has brought Palestinians and Israelis back into contact with one another. The resumption of your activities [...]
By EDWARD SAID In early May, I was in Seattle lecturing for a few days. While there, I had dinner one night with Rachel Corrie’s parents and sister, who were still reeling from the shock of their daughter’s murder on March 16 in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer. Mr. Corrie told me that he had [...]
by Jeff Halper Like Sharon’s 1982 war in Lebanon, which was also minimized as simply an “operation” (Operation Peace for the Galilee), Operation Defensive Shield had political goals far beyond that indicated by its modest “defensive” name. Under the guise of destroying the “infrastructure of terrorism,” Sharon (and his willing partner Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the elected [...]
By Roy Reece As I walked one cool dark night My eye caught a beautiful light I saw these angles in the sky Yes angels and I wondered why
By Israel Shamir (a talk given in Paris on 18 June 2003) The Road Map is not a compromise between Palestinians and Jews, but between Jews and Jews, none of whom lives in the Middle East, namely, between Jewish liberals of New York and Jewish neo-cons of Washington. Both groups are devoted to preservation and [...]
by Uri Avnery The most talented director could not have done better. It was a perfect show. Television viewers all over the world saw heroic Israeli soldiers on their screens battling the fanatical settlers. Close-ups: faces twisted with passion, a soldier lying on a stretcher, a young woman crying in despair, children weeping, youngsters storming [...]
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