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Uri Avnery: 40 Bad Years

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 11:23 am | Gush Shalom

This is what we sang when we were young. Now it is a TV nostalgia show, youngsters of the 50s singing pioneer songs. The thoughts wander. Who were the pioneers, the first to sing these songs? More >>

Uri Avnery: On Generals and Admirals

Sunday, 10 June 2007, 11:22 am | Gush Shalom

"NOTHING SUCCEEDS like success," says a typical American adage. The Israeli version, also typical, is: "Nothing succeeds like failure." It seems that no one has any chance of winning an election here until they have proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, ... More >>

40 Bad Years

Saturday, 9 June 2007, 1:58 pm | Gush Shalom

"REST HAS come to the tired / Repose to the toiler / A pale night covers / The fields of the Jezreel valley / Dew below and moon above / >From Kibbutz Bet-Alfa to Moshav Nahalal…" This is what we sang when we were young. Now it is ... More >>

The 1 State/2 State Debate – Pappe vs Avnery

Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:40 pm | Gush Shalom

The 'Two-States or One State' public debate between Uri Avnery and Ilan Pappe got enormous attention already before it took place on the evening of May 8. 2007. The positions taken by the two "gladiators" were known in advance. It was Teddy Katz ... More >>

Gush-Shalom Opening Speeches

Sunday, 13 May 2007, 1:59 pm | Gush Shalom

The 'Two-States or One State' public debate between Uri Avnery and Ilan Pappe got enormous attention already before it took place on the evening of May 8. 2007. The positions taken by the two "gladiators" were known in advance. It was Teddy ... More >>

Adam Keller: The Malaise (The Other Israel)

Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 8:59 am | Gush Shalom

NOT ONLY the Palestinians must be breathing a deep sigh of relief after the swearing in of the Palestinian National Unity Government. We Israelis have good reason to do the same. More >>

2nd Casualty & Or Victims of Operation Hot Winter

Monday, 5 March 2007, 3:56 pm | Gush Shalom

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Second Casualty and Other Victims of Operation Hot Winter - Father of five, Ghareb Abdel Ghani Selhab, 47, a resident of Nablus old city who had a heart attack after a tear gas canister was fired into his home, died this morning. ... More >>

A Sparkling Bubble

Monday, 4 December 2006, 12:18 am | Gush Shalom

A FRIEND of mine, who was brought up in Egypt, took part in the interrogation of Egyptian officers captured in the 1956 Sinai war. More >>

Gaza: Stop the Siege! Stop the War! Protest Month

Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 10:31 am | Gush Shalom

We would like to start this mail by expressing our outrage at the horrifying Israeli carnage of civilians in Bet Hanoun in Gaza Strip, that cost the lives of 20 civilians, among them 7 children and 6 women, and left many more injured. Since the end of June, ... More >>

Gush Shalom: After Gaza Atrocity

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 11:22 am | Gush Shalom

After yesterday's "end of the Beit Hanoun operation" - we now know it was not the end. The army withdrew only its troops from the town itself, to place them around it, immediately starting a nightly artillery bombardment which erased a whole family. ... More >>

Stop the siege! Stop the war!

Thursday, 2 November 2006, 9:51 am | Gush Shalom

The community of peace organizations in Israel has gathered together in a coordinated, major campaign calling on the Israeli government and on the international community to end the siege on Gaza and to embark upon negotiations with the elected Palestinian ... More >>

Lunch in Damascus

Monday, 9 October 2006, 9:41 am | Gush Shalom

ONCE, WHILE traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver - a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in vain to convince him of the desirability of peace with the Arabs. In our country, which has never seen ... More >>

Help! Peacemongers! By Uri Avnery

Monday, 18 September 2006, 8:09 am | Gush Shalom

"The offensive of the last two days of the war, in which 33 soldiers were killed after the cease-fire resolution had already been accepted, was a spin of the Prime Minister…The Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense and the Chief-of-Staff must ... More >>

Gush Shalom Advert addresses Israeli PM Olmert

Friday, 1 September 2006, 11:10 am | Gush Shalom

This week's ad summarizes Gush Shalom's letter to Olmert in which we urge the PM to deal in the most serious way with the fundamental questions: More >>

Gush Shalom: War Intensifies, Protest Widens

Friday, 11 August 2006, 9:38 am | Gush Shalom

While the government gave the green light to intensifiying and prolonging the war for weeks or months, today at 6pm a Stop the War demo was called opposite the Defence Ministry in Tel-Aviv. It was initiated by selective refusers (Ometz Lesarev) as an ... More >>

Gush Shalom: Junkies Of War

Monday, 7 August 2006, 9:52 am | Gush Shalom

"Is this the last week?" people asked each other. Since the jets went streaking northwards to rain death over Beirut and the missiles came shrieking back southwards to an ever-widening number of Israeli communities, Israeli activists had been gathering every Saturday ... More >>

The war goes on: So do the anti-war demonstrations

Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 11:28 am | Gush Shalom

We got up with the news of Condoleezza Rice at last putting down her foot (or at least, giving this impression on TV) and forcing a temporary halt to the systematic Israeli bombing of Lebanon's towns and villages. The declaration was made from Washington, ... More >>

"Stop The Killing!" - Tel Aviv Anti-War Demo, Sat

Saturday, 22 July 2006, 8:15 pm | Gush Shalom

"Stop the killing!" - Tel Aviv anti-war demo, Sat. July 22, 6.30 pm Tel-Aviv More >>

Gush Shalom: Another Protest & Media Digest

Thursday, 20 July 2006, 11:15 am | Gush Shalom

[ One'days blood toll / Adam Keller in Amsterdam / Reservist refuser from Sderot / Reports, photos and video of the July 17 demo / 'End it Now' by Susie Becher on Ynet / Zvi Bar'el in Ha'aretz on inavoidable Nasrallah / Letters from Beirut ] More >>

Protest: Silence the Canons - Start Negotiating!

Monday, 17 July 2006, 10:32 am | Gush Shalom

No More Military Madness! Stop the Unilateral Illusion! Stop Killing Civilians in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza! Start Political Negotiations! More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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