Gush-Shalom

A Line in the Sand

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:48:22 +0530

MAHMOUD ABBAS is fed up. The day before yesterday he withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the Palestinian Authority.

I understand him.

He feels betrayed...

WEEDS

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:13:20 +0530

The police announced proudly
The capture of the
Settler-terrorist Ja’acov Teitel.
The settler’s reaction:
“He is a wild weed”.

Two days later, the police
Helped a gang of settlers
To invade an Arab home
In East Jerusalem
And throw the inhabitants out.

These settlers and their helpers –
Policemen, officers and ministers –
All of them are Wild Weeds.

Count Me Out

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:09:27 +0530

A YEAR before the Oslo agreement, I had a meeting with Yasser Arafat in Tunis. He was full of curiosity about Yitzhak Rabin, who had just been elected Prime Minister.

I described him as well as I could and ended...

Crazy Country

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:32:28 +0530

Adam Keller's blog

AN ARMY THAT HAS A STATE

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:31:59 +0530

In a democratic country,
The Minister of Defense
Represents the civil authority
Vis-à-vis the army.

In Israel, the army
Has vetoed the appointment
Of a Commission of Inquiry
Into the harm done to
Gaza civilians.

Minister of Defense Barak
Saluted and went to deliver
To the government
The Order of the General Staff.

A REAL PEACE PROCESS - Gush Shalom addresses J Street

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:21:49 +0530

Almost everybody agrees that peace between the State of Israel and the State of Palestine is the only solution.

All the relevant governments say so, including the government of Israel. Why, then, does it not...

Stop US tax money flowing to settlers

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:53 +0530

Gush Shalom approached the National Lawyers' Guild in the US, requesting NLG members to act against American organizations supporting Israeli settlers in the Occupied Territories and get the tax authorities to remove the tax exempt status...

“Where Have All the Friendships Gone…"

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:07:06 +0530

ACCORDING TO a Chinese saying, if someone in the street tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off.

A SHAM?

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:42:24 +0530

Some ministers want
A sham investigation,
Without defining responsibility
And without uncovering
The army’s actions.
That will not reduce
The pressure.

What is needed is a
State investigation committee,
Headed by a Superior Court judge,
To hear testimonies
From soldiers and Gaza residents,
In public and in the presence
Of international observers.

For the Israeli government
That is the lesser evil.

"The story of the Green Patrol attack" -- meeting with Nuri al Okbi, Tel Aviv, November 19

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:23:20 +0530

The Bedouin rights activist Nuri al Okbi, who over the past three years maintains a sit-in strike in a tent on the lands from which his tribe was expelled in 1951, will reach Tel Aviv on November 19, in order to hold the second of his monthly...

The Slippery Slope

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:07:48 +0530

IT IS, of course, all the fault of Judge Richard Goldstone. He is to blame for it, as he is to blame for all the other ills that are befalling us now.

He is to blame for the trouble we are having at the UN, both...

INVESTIGATE!

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:02:46 +0530

We must investigate
The suspected
Gaza War crimes -

Not because of the UN,
Not for fear of Goldstone,
But for our self-respect
And for the future
Of Israel.

The other Israel

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:09:35 +0530

YESTERDAY, OUR table celebrated with Ada Yonath.

This “table” just had its 50th anniversary. It started by accident in “California”, the Café established at the time by Abie Nathan, who later became famous as the...

Obama has yet to earn it

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:49:18 +0530

President Obama does not yet deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. That he was himself the first to say so does not make it less true.

On the Israeli-Palestinian track President Obama has on several occasions declared...

RELIGIOUS WAR

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:42:34 +0530

A group of
Extreme settlers
Is digging near
The Temple Mount -
Under the auspices of
The government.

Sheikh Ra’ed cries out:
“Al-Aqsa in danger!”
And is banished
From Jerusalem.

This is a recipe
For religious war –
A disaster for
All of us.

Jews and Arabs in a Negev rally: "Stop the land robbery, stop the denial of flowing water, stop the discrimination!"

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:07:06 +0530

Hundreds of Negev residents, Jews and Arabs, as well as friends and supporters from all over the country, gathered Saturday afternoon in the lands of el-Malichi el-Arakib, near the Lehavim-Rahat junction in the Negev.

...

A Story of Betrayal

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:25:30 +0530

TODAY IS the 1196th day in captivity for the soldier Gilad Shalit.

A prisoner of war must not be left in captivity. A wounded soldier must not be left in the field. The state signs an unwritten contract with...

AFTER GOLDSTONE

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:22:37 +0530

Those who did not
Want to listen to
The testimonies
Of the soldiers of
“Breaking Silence” -
Got Goldstone.

Those who have rejected
With disdain
The Goldstone report –
Now have to confront
Court cases
All over the world.

Water reached Palestinians - activists broke through army cordon

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:37:14 +0300

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This Saturday morning, September 26, the IDF declared the area of the Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills to be "a closed military zone" in order to prevent the entry of a...

The Drama and the Farce

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:28:08 +0300

NO POINT denying it: in the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten.

Obama had demanded a freeze of all settlement activity, including East Jerusalem, as a condition...