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MEPP: Time is running out for the two state solution

            For the purpose of linking to the letter, the statement has been posted on the website of the European Council on Foreign Relations and can be accessed via the following link: http://www.ecfr.eu/blog/entry/time_is_running_out_for_a_two_state_solution Sir Jeremy Greenstock can be reached for further comment at the following address: jqg@gatehouseadvisorypartners.com Dear High Representative [...]

The settlers will rise in power in Israel’s new government

Netanyahu’s new government, which will pour its resources into settlement expansion, is likely to force Israel into growing international isolation. U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro probably sat down Wednesday to write a long cable to the White House ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to report on the new government in Israel. Aside from noting [...]

Spatial shaping and other stories

Dear Members, Why are settlements like water? Because they expand when frozen:  Danny Seidemann’s joke, retired IDF major, lawyer, and Director of Terrestrial Jerusalem, who gave a briefing last week on why this is absolutely the last year that a 2 state solution is even conceivable, see below: http://t-j.org.il/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=QRDH_lnqzyM%3d&tabid=1508 Seidemann gave two strong messages: By [...]

Asking the Questions

19 June 2013

Dear Members First the astonishing news that Baroness Neuberger and Lord Carlile, who were due to hold a meeting with MP David Ward, in order to ‘re-educate’ him in ‘sensitivity and language training’ apparently no longer wish to do so. No explanation has been given…. Meanwhile David continues to ask the important questions in Parliament: [...]

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Does Israel Meet The Quartet Conditions?

19 June 2013

Like many of his predecessors, Secretary of State John Kerry is currently working tirelessly in an effort to restart a peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. In recent weeks and months, he has traveled frequently to the region, meeting regularly with leaders. However, also like his predecessors, he too will fail to achieve anything without [...]

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Accountability

31 May 2013

Dear Members, Mahmoud Sarsak, the Gazan footballer who was released from an Israeli jail after 6 months on hunger strike, finally made it to the UK last week. On Friday he joined activists and comedian Alexei Sayle in the pouring rain outside the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, where the UEFA Congress was taking place, there [...]

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Economic carrot to end the conflict must be accompanied by political stick to end the occupation

31 May 2013

The stage setting was as good as it gets; they hardly come bigger. US Secretary of State John Kerry chose the backdrop of the Davos conference of the World Economic Forum for the Middle East and North Africa to unveil his economic plan for Palestinian recovery. Clearly choreographed to impress public opinion he announced a [...]

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Mobilising for the G4S AGM protest – 6th June 2013

31 May 2013

Protest at G4S Shareholders Annual General Meeting   Thursday June 6th 2013 from 1pm, Salters’ Hall, 4 Fore Street, London, EC2Y 5DE http://stopg4s.net/action-alerts   The last twelve months have seen G4S voted third ‘Worst Company of the Year’ in the global Public Eye awards, they also face a UKparliamentary inquiry into their disastrous handling of [...]

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Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?

22 May 2013

The file in the state archives contains clear evidence that the researchers at the time did not paint the full picture of Israel’s role in creating the Palestinian refugee problem.   The Israeli censor’s observant eye had missed file number GL-18/17028 in the State Archives. Most files relating to the 1948 Palestinian exodus remain sealed [...]

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Outsourcing the Occupation

22 May 2013

Dear Members We are planning an LDFP summer party: a buffet supper at the Maramia cafe in Notting Hill, a family- run Palestinian restaurant, whose patron still has a house in Gaza City. http://maramia.com/topublish/index.aspx Date: Tuesday 25 June, Time: 7 pm We have not yet negotiated a price (but no more than £20 quid a [...]

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Events: May 2013

18 May 2013

  Events: May 2013 (Greater London Area)   Saturday 18th May – End the Nakba: 65 Years is Enough – Protest led by Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Old Palace Yard (Opposite Houses of Parliament), 11am-1pm   Thursday 23rd May – Professor Ephraim Kleiman on ‘Palestinian-Israeli Economic Relations: Repudiating the Paris Protocol?’ – LSE, Wolfson Theatre, [...]

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Five reasons why Hawking is right to boycott Israel

15 May 2013

            As announced by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and subsequently covered by The Guardian, Reuters and others, world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has decided to heed the Palestinian call for boycott, and pull out of an Israeli conference hosted by President Shimon [...]

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Nakba 65 – Protest Sat 18 May in London

08 May 2013

End Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians End the ongoing Nakba – Palestine’s catastrophe – 65 years on There will Saturday 18th May against the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians through Israeli policy. Saturday 18 May 11am to 1pm Old Palace Yard (Opposite Parliament/House of Lords), SW1P 3JY, London Do you want to join the protest? Architects [...]

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