Gush Shalom - Latest News [Page 21]
Uri Avnery: The Holy Alliance, Past And Present
Monday, 19 November 2001, 10:22 am | Gush Shalom
At the reception desk of the War-Against-Terror Coalition, there lies an application form for new partners. After stating his name, country and function (king / president / emir / dictator / tyrant), the applicant is invited to answer the question: “Do ... More >>
Assassination Is Assassination
Thursday, 18 October 2001, 10:25 am | Gush Shalom
Today Israeli society is in shock because of the murder of its Minister of Tourism Reha'am Ze'evi. Never before was it more clear than now that even a leader of a relatively small extremist group becomes a national hero and martyr when he is assassinated. More >>
Opinion: Ariel Sharon Declares War On USA
Monday, 8 October 2001, 2:11 pm | Gush Shalom
Ariel Sharon has declared war on the USA. It can’t be defined any other way. More >>
Alternative Nobel Prize For Gush Shalom
Friday, 5 October 2001, 9:34 am | Gush Shalom
Today October 4, the jury of “The Right Livelihood Award”, better known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, announced that among this year's award recipients are “Gush Shalom and Uri and Rachel Avnery”. The award granting ceremony will take place at the Swedish ... More >>
Israel: Four New Settlements To Be Created
Wednesday, 3 October 2001, 10:26 am | Gush Shalom
Four new settlements are about to be created on Sunday, October 7, at various points in the occupied territories. The pirate radio station "Channel 7", which operates illegally but unimpeded from studios at the settlement of Beit El, right ... More >>
The Bastards Changed The Rules
Monday, 1 October 2001, 11:48 am | Gush Shalom
He looked like a mummy: face frozen, body averted, no eye contact with the other person. Shimon Peres meeting Yasser Arafat. Next to him sat the general who was sent to oversee him, so that he would not talk, God forbid, about solutions, political ... More >>
Analysis: A Year After The Peace Process Collapsed
Thursday, 27 September 2001, 11:25 am | Gush Shalom
[The following analysis by the co-chair of the Council for Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue in the UK, Dr. Tony Klug, is going to be published in 'Palestine-Israel Journal.' This important contribution to the discourse further demystifies the reasons for ... More >>
Act Against New Expulsion Of Cave Dwellers
Monday, 24 September 2001, 9:43 am | Gush Shalom
[During the past days news came out that 118 cave dwellers whose dwellings had been demolished a few months ago and who survived in make-shifts, were chased from their lands during the Jewish New Year feast - following an action of Israelis to bring ... More >>
Guest Opinion: Twin Towers
Sunday, 16 September 2001, 2:18 pm | Gush Shalom
After the smoke has cleared, the dust has settled down and the initial fury blown over, humankind will wake up and realize a new fact: there is no safe place on earth. More >>
Report Of The Unreported Days
Friday, 14 September 2001, 2:33 pm | Gush Shalom
Sept. 13: Today, the editorial of the mass-circulation Ma'ariv pointed out "the rare opportunity to turn international public opinion Israel's way", since "The world is horrified by the ideological alliance between Arafat and Bin Laden". More >>
Another Face Of The Palestinian Community
Thursday, 13 September 2001, 11:27 am | Gush Shalom
The following message comes from the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour on the West Bank. Their unambiguous condemnation of the barbaric attack yesterday stands in stark contrast to the message the major media is putting out about Palestinian "joy" over ... More >>
The Day After
Thursday, 13 September 2001, 8:34 am | Gush Shalom
Yesterday - exactly when it happened - we were preparing a message to our list about more house demolitions by the Jerusalem municipality, and the invasion of the West Bank town Jenin by the Israeli army. More >>
From Durban to Jerusalem
Tuesday, 4 September 2001, 9:18 pm | Gush Shalom
As it happened: on the morning of the day that Israeli and American delegates walked out of the UN anti-racism conference at Durban, South Africa, two groups were confronting each other outside the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. More >>
Israeli and Intl. peace activists inside Beit Jala
Thursday, 30 August 2001, 9:46 am | Gush Shalom
A group of Israeli, American, German and French peace activists of the "International Solidarity" group have succeeded in entering the part of Beit Jala occupied by Israeli troops where a curfew has been declared. More >>
Call For An Intl. Force Between Beit Jala And Gilo
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 1:29 pm | Gush Shalom
Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc) calls for the placing of an international force between Beit Jala and Gilo, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Beit Jala, which must take place immediately. More >>
Assassination A Step Towards All-Out War After
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 8:51 am | Gush Shalom
The assassination this morning of Abu Ali Mustafa, Secretary-General of the PFLP is a deeply worrying escalation of an already perilous situation. The policy of "targeted killings" undertaken by the Sharon Government is a serious violation of international ... More >>
Protesting together - A Moment Protesting together
Thursday, 16 August 2001, 5:42 pm | Gush Shalom
In these tense, violent and dangerous times, it was a moment of hope: 300 demonstrators, Israelis and Palestinians, standing together in protest of the occupation of Orient House and the other Palestinian institutions in and around Jerusalem. More >>
Invasion Of Jenin By Sharon's War Government
Tuesday, 14 August 2001, 3:45 pm | Gush Shalom
After the whole world condemned the attack on the Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem, followed the sneaky, nightly invasion of Jenin. Gush Shalom calls on Shimon Peres and the other Labor Party members to immediately leave Sharon's war government. Anybody ... More >>
Policy Of Force Failed - Intl. Observers Now!
Friday, 10 August 2001, 8:21 am | Gush Shalom
After the terrorist attack in Jerusalem Gush Shalom once more calls for international observers; the cycle of revenge upon revenge and preventive strikes which have to be revenged can perhaps still be stopped before putting the whole region aflame. More >>
Collective Punishment Leaves 500 Palestinians Home
Wednesday, 4 July 2001, 4:13 pm | Gush Shalom
Last night, an Israeli settler named Yair Har-Sinai was shot to death near the settlement enclave in the south of the West Bank. Fellow-settlers, who were today very extensively interviewed, told two things about him: that unlike other settlers, he did not carry ... More >>