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ABIE
Abie Nathan -

Courageous peace activist,
Conducted a hunger strike
Against the settlements
Almost to death,
Went twice to jail
For meeting Yasser Arafat,
Planned his actions alone,
Took on... • More...

The boats have gone through - time to remove the siege!
The passage of the boats has proven:
the siege on Gaza is a meaningless folly, the time has come to remove it • More...

The Devil's Hoof
I WAS shocked when I read the headline in Haaretz. It quoted Sari Nusseibeh as saying "There is no Room for Two", meaning two states between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan. • More...

LAST UPDATE: BOATS GET PERMISSION
Gush Shalom to government: let the boats through and don't harm peace activists • More...

THE DIFFERENCE
In military prison:
Udi Nir, 18,
Who refuses to serve
In the army that
Violates human rights
In the occupied territories.

Walking free:
The soldiers who
Shot dead
At close range
Ahmad Mussa, 10... • More...

Setting right a small part of a longlasting injustice
Had they been Israelis, the 'prisoners with blood on the hands' would have been set free long ago. • More...

The Anger, the Longing, the Hope
ONE OF the wisest pronouncements I have heard in my life was that of an Egyptian general, a few days after Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem. • More...

A stain
Shooting, of any kind,
At a handcuffed prisoner
Is a war crime.

A commander
Who gives a soldier
Such a criminal order
Must be kicked out
Of the army.

This week the
Chief of Staff
Decided that... • More...

MAHMOUD DARWISH
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Not too late to include poems of Mahmoud Darwish in the school curriculum
Mahmoud Darwish's death – a big loss for the Palestinian people as well as for peace seeking Israelis

Darwish's memory should be honoured by the inclusion of his poems in the curriculum of... • More...

A Knight on a Gray Horse
OH DEAR, what has happened to the knight on the white horse? • More...

BARGHOUTI
If
Ehud Olmert
Wants, before leaving,
To do something good
For Israel -
Let him release
Marwan Barghouti
At once,
So he can lead
The Palestinian
Peace Camp. • More...

Hollow Time
EHUD OLMERT'S resignation speech reached us on our way back from a demonstration. • More...

Admitting and shooting
The Chief of Staff,
Gabi Ashkenazi,
Admitted that the path
Of the "Separation Fence"
Was devised to expropriate
Palestinian land
For the settlers and
Real estate sharks,
Not for security.

On the... • More...

Why Olmert should indeed be going
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Demonstration today, Wed. July 30, 7:00 pm at Defence Minister Barak's home
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"If I Forget Thee, Umm Touba…"
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Punishing the messenger
The shooting at
A handcuffed Palestinian
Is not exceptional.
What is exceptional
Is that it was photographed.

Clearly, for every act
Of photographed harassment
There are dozens
Which are not... • More...

Top of the iceberg
.
The shooting of a tied-up Palestinian detainee at Ni'ilin is an example of what takes place every day in the Occupied Territories

Investigation of soldiers and officers must be taken out of the... • More...

Different Planets
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Let's do it
One day
Gilad Shalit will
Come home to
His family.


One day
Our prisons
Will be emptied of
Palestinian prisoners,
And they, too,
Will return to
Their families.


Let's not wait.
Let's do it. • More...

Gershom Gorenberg in Haaretz: The collapse began today
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Why Not?
IF YOU want to understand the policy of a country, look at the map - as Napoleon recommended. • More...

Orphans and Widows
As part of the actions
Against Hamas,
The Olmert government
Is destroying orphanages,
Schools and charities
In the West Bank.

There are no other
Institutions to take their place.
Orphans, widows... • More...

Don't say we didn't know / Amos Gvirtz
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Satan's Counsel
IT WAS just a passing conversation, but it has stuck in my memory. • More...

Immoral and contraproductive
-A bankrupt government resorts to house demolition and nationalist demagoguery in a desperate effort to survive;

-Demolition of families' homes is illegal, immoral and serves no purpose other... • More...

OCCUPIED
East Jerusalem
Is occupied
Palestinian territory.

Both the municipality
And the government
Treat is as such.
So do the inhabitants.

The only solution
Is to return
East Jerusalem
To Palestinian rule. • More...

Ole - Ole, Ole, Ole
WHAT EXCITED the Israelis this week? What glued them to the TV and radio sets? What made them rush to buy newspapers at the kiosks? • More...

Let it be clear:
Whoever kills
Palestinians
In the West Bank -
Intends to
Destroy the ceasefire
In the Gaza Strip. • More...