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	All Quiet on the Gaza Front AND SUDDENLY: quiet. No Qassams. No mortar shells. The tanks are not rolling. The aircraft are not bombing. • 21/06/08 • More...

	A VICTORY The cease-fire Is a victory of Common sense. The next task: To prevent our Warmongers From destroying it. • More...

	An Apology THIS WEEK, the Prime Minister of Canada made a dramatic statement in Parliament: he apologized to the indigenous peoples of his country for the injustices done to them for generations by... • 14/06/08 • More...

	LITTLE GIRLS Hadeil al-Smieri 9 years old, Was killed at home By an Israeli tank shell. A few hours later, The cabinet convened in Jerusalem And decided to continue Negotiations for a ceasefire That could... • More...

	- 41 Years occupation (Hebrew) / tv.social.org.il On the 41st anniversary of the occupation, more than 2000 peace activists from several organizations marched on Saturday (June 7, 2008) through the center of Tel-Aviv, shouting i.a. "Cease Fire... • 08/06/08 • More...

	No, I Can't! AFTER MONTHS of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black... • 07/06/08 • More...

	OBAMA Every child in Israel Knows by now that There will be no peace Without dividing Jerusalem. But the candidate Barack Obama Declared this week that "United" Jerusalem must be The capital of Israel... • More...

	41 Years - End The Occupation! • 05/06/08 • More...

	Thursday June 5 - protest tent erected near the Fence at Kafin Village Inhabitants of Kafin Village will tomorrow (Thur.) erect a protest tent near the fence separating them from their land; members of Gush Shalom and other peace groups will take part in the ceremony... • 04/06/08 • More...

	When the Kettle Calls the Pot Black . I CANNOT say that I ever liked Ehud Olmert. But now I almost feel sorry for him. • 31/05/08 • More...

	The occupation corrupts . The long occupation Is corrupting Everything good In our state Such A state Deserves Such A Prime Minister • More...

	Escaping Forwards • 24/05/08 • More...

	The Trouble The Trouble is That our Prime Ministers Remember their duty To make peace Only when they are In deep trouble. • More...

	"Independence Night" at Afkikis . Indiscriminate destruction at Afkikis Village on Independence Night and the complaint followed by more of the same • 19/05/08 • More...

	The depiction of Bedouins as 'nomads' - a myth Report by Adam Keller on the session of the governmental Goldberg Commission, May 15 in Be'er Sheva re the situation of Bedouins - with testimonies by Nuri al-Okbi, Ibrahim al-Amur, Amos Gvirtz... • 18/05/08 • More...

	With Friends Like These… LATELY WE are flooded with friends. The Great of the Earth, past and present, come here to flatter us, to fawn on us, to grovel at our feet. • 17/05/08 • More...

	MISSING The President of the US and Other world leaders and VIPs Have come to celebrate The 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. All of them together Do not make up For the absence of The... • More...

	Racism at conference . In a letter to Attorney-General Menny Mazuz, Gush Shalom calls for an investigation against settler rabbis Zalman Melamed, Dov Lior and Yisrael Samet, on charges of racist incitement. • 13/05/08 • More...

	1948 ONE DAY, I hope, a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission", on the South African model, will be set up here. It should be composed of Israeli, Palestinian and international historians, whose job... • 10/05/08 • More...

	It could have been over already . Responsibility for the escalation and bloodshed in the past day lies on those who refused the cease-fire proposal. Complete calm on both sides of the border could have been achieved already. • 10/05/08 • More...

	THANKS Medicines worth a Quarter of a million shekels Were brought this week Into the Gaza Strip By Gush Shalom, As part of the Coalition Against the Blockade. Thanks to the many donors Who answered our... • More...

	"…Namely the State of Israel" EVERY TIME I hear the voice of David Ben-Gurion uttering the words "Therefore we are gathered here…" I think of Issar Barsky, a charming youngster, the little brother of a girl-friend of mine. • 03/05/08 • More...

	The 60th Independence Day Next Week The 60th Independence Day Will be celebrated With boastful wastefulness. This week Israel looked Cruel and callous. Instead of accepting gladly The proposed cease-fire, It sent its... • More...

	The blood on Barak's hands • 29/04/08 • More...

	The Military Option WAR WITH Syria? Peace with Syria? A big military operation against Hamas in the Gaza strip? A cease-fire with Hamas? • 26/04/08 • More...

	THE PROPOSAL Now it's official: Hamas is ready to accept The State of Israel Within the 1967 borders - Subject to approval By a Palestinian plebiscite - And also proposes A cease-fire. The Olmert-Barak... • More...

	Aqaba at the Supreme Court - a village's fate in the balance • 21/04/08 • More...

	The Lion and the Gazelle TONIGHT THE JEWS all over the world will celebrate the Seder, the unique ceremony that unites Jews everywhere in the defining Jewish myth: the Exodus from Egypt. • 19/04/08 • More...

	CARTER Jimmy Carter, Former President of the USA, Father of our peace with Egypt, Offered to help us Break out of the Vicious circle of bloodshed. He was angrily rebuffed. The next day, Three IDF... • More...

	Avnery congratulates Carter for decision to meet and talk peace with Hamas leaders in Damascus "It would have been best for all of us, Mr. President, had you gone to Damascus with a full mandate from the Government of Israel and from you successor in the White House. To promote to the best... • 13/04/08 • More...