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The Method in the Madness
WHEN A Prime Minister has just lost a war, is dogged by corruption allegations and sees his popularity ratings in free fall - what can he do? • More...

At the Temple Mount
At the Temple Mount
A unilateral usurpation
Is taking place.

This is a
Superfluous,
Foolish,
Dangerous
Provocation.

Do we really
Want a
War of religions? • More...

Fatal Kiss
IT SOUNDS like a promo for a second rate soap opera: a 21- year old woman appears with a much older celebrity, who grabs her, forces a kiss on her and pushes his tongue into her mouth. • More...

Peace
Peace
Among the Palestinians
Is good for Israel, too.

Only
A united Palestinian leadership
Will be able
To make peace with us
And keep it. • More...

"If Arafat were Alive…"
"IF ARAFAT were alive…" one hears this phrase increasingly often in conversations with Palestinians, and also with Israelis and foreigners.

"If Arafat were alive, what's happening now in Gaza... • More...

Reminder
And there's
A rape
That's
Already
Going on
For
40 years. • More...

Shifting sands and the chances for peace / Reuven Kaminer
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Punishment
Dan Halutz
Has been ejected
From the office
Of the Chief-of-Staff.

What do we feel?

Not even
A slight bump
On the wing. • More...

A Freedom Ride
Mahatma Gandhi would have loved it. Nelson Mandela would have saluted. Martin Luther King would have been the most excited - it would have reminded him of the old days. • More...

Dan Halutz, shooting himself in the wing
On the day when Dan Halutz entered upon his career as Army Chief of Staff, activists of Gush Shalom and Yesh Gvul stood protesting outside. We flew across the Defence Ministry walls little paper... • More...

Apartheid
As from next Friday
Israeli drivers will
Be forbidden
To take Palestinians
In their cars
In the West Bank.

That stinks of Apartheid.

No "security" need
Will be served
By this disgraceful order... • More...

Har Homa extension - a slap in the face
“Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Peretz both excel in throwing out colorful balls called “humanitarian gestures” and “political plans”, which sound nice but have little relation to... • More...

Kiss of death
Since Judas Iscariot embraced Jesus, Jerusalem has not seen such a kiss.
After being boycotted by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert for years, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was invited to the official... • More...

Ramallah provocation
The deadly raid in Ramallah is an aggressive and dangerous provocation. This is not the way to build a cease-fire, nor anyway helpful to advance peace. • More...

Too high a price
The endless delays
In the talks
About the exchange of prisoners
Must stop.

For the Shalit family,
Waiting now
For half a year
For the return of their son,
And for a thousand
Palestinian families... • More...

Judge Barak / Gideon Spiro
Originally published on the Yesh Gvul website
The Barak method in a nutshell – a lopsided "balance" that wondrously always works in favor of the Occupation and the Occupier. • More...

What Makes Sammy Run?
"I DON'T care about the principles! All that I want is that my wife can live with me and that we can raise a family!" cried out the engaging young man on the TV talk show. • More...

Self restraint
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Occupying Tel Aviv / Eran Vered
In order to remind the residents of Tel Aviv what is being done in their name, several kilometers from their homes, we ("Anarchists Against The Wall") have embarked today (28 December 2006) to the... • More...

Russian peace site - including translated articles
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
Coalition of Women for Peace
Combatants for Peace
Tikkun Magazine
A new settlement in the Jordan Valley
Offering some lame “gestures” to the Palestinians and at the same time building a new settlement on Palestinian land proves that Olmert does not seriously intend to end the occupation. • More...

List of actions, 1992-2006
A list of Gush-Shalom actions since its coming about in 1992, updated until Dec. 2006

Sorry, wrong continent
A FEW weeks ago, the 15th Asian games, the "Asiad", was held in Qatar.
The Israeli media treated the event with a mixture of derision and pity. Some kind of picturesque Asian circus. Our... • More...

Afraid of whom?
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Following up on an article of Gideon Levy - an appeal by Dalia Beker
Marya Amman, a five-year old girl from Gaza who was left paralysed for life from the “mistaken” shooting of the IDF, is hospitalized at the Alin Rehabilitation Hospital in Jerusalem. Marya’s... • More...

“Separation Wall” causes grievous harm to the Flowers of Hope School near Bethlehem
The bulldozers are already working directly in front of the school, and the student cafeteria built at considerable expense is about to be demolished. But the director is more worried about the... • More...