Half a Democracy - as a slideshow

Half a Democracy (created by “>Lawrence of Cyberia) is a 72-slide presentation on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the prospects for peace and reconciliation based on a Two-State solution.
This slide show is not a history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but a collection of evocative quotes and images that illustrate the reality of the Occupation and show [...]

A celebration that ignores the plight of Palestine

“IF YOU will it,” wrote Theodore Herzl, the founding father of the Zionist movement, in 1902, “it is no dream.”
The dream to which he referred was the establishment of a Jewish state in the Arab country of Palestine.
To realise the dream, he insisted, the Jews must be willing to seize the reigns of history by [...]

Missing in action - (ProIsraeli racist massmedia in UK!!!)

Missing in action
New research suggests that television news fails to inform young people about what’s going on in the Occupied Territories, or why. Greg Philo explains

If you don’t understand the Middle East crisis it might be because you are watching it on TV news. This scores high on images of fighting, violence and drama, but [...]

Jerusalem Dispossessed - everyday jewish colonialism & ethnic cleansing

Nof Zion - “a view of Zion - a private neighbourhood in Jerusalem.” American Jews buy holiday homes in a Palestinian neighbourhood. On privately owned Palestinian land. Creating a wedge of Israeli settlements deep inside Palestinian Occupied Territory that will prevent the Clinton Parameters from ever being realised. Another thorn in the side of peace.
Ref: [...]

The War’s Seventh Day

The Zionist dream’s realization and the Jewish people’s national rebirth through the creation of Israel were achieved not because of the Jewish side’s superior number of tanks, planes or other aggressive means. The State of Israel was born because the Zionist movement realized it must find a solution to the Jews’ persecution and because the [...]

Commemorate 40 years of the occupation

Speech by Nurit Peled-Elhanan at the demonstration in Tel Aviv to commemorate 40 years of the occupation
Good evening. It is a great honour for me to stand on this stage beside my friend and brother Bassam Aramin, a man of the Palestinian peace camp, one of the founders of the Combatants for Peace movement of [...]

Israel’s split psyche

Israel is falling apart, MK Avishay Braverman lamented at the Institute for National Security Studies’ annual State of the Nation conference. Our education system, once Israel’s pride, is in the dumps; public corruption is rampant; our universities are starving to death; and the income gap is almost as bad as Brazil’s.
Braverman’s lamentations reflect a [...]

Settlers tie Palestinian man to phone pole and beat him

A group of West Bank settlers on Saturday beat a 31-year-old Palestinian man in the southern Hebron Hills, after having tied him to a telephone pole.
Left-wing activists later videoed a settler kicking Madahat Abu-Kirash, the victim, as he remained tied up and was surrounded by Israeli security forces. The soldiers subsequently removed the [...]

Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state

The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed.
This extension is the eighth since the law was first passed in 2003, and it [...]

‘Dutch Jimmy Carter’ accuses Israel of terrorism in new book

The emotion in Andreas Van Agt’s voice as he lambastes Israel’s behavior seems puzzling for a man of his status. It is especially intriguing when one is reminded that this blue-eyed professed idealist is an astute statesman who presided as the Dutch prime minister for five years, until 1982.
“My involvement in the Middle East [...]