24 January 2012
By Martin Linton at the New Statesman Raya is from Haifa and her husband Issam is from a village just 15 minutes’ drive from the centre of Jerusalem, as close as Harrow to London. But he cannot live with his wife and children in their north Jerusalem home because his village lies outside the city [...]
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15 January 2012
The LDFP round-up of recent news and views from Israel and Palestine Press Release from Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Israeli Courts Insist on Decisions Depriving Palestinian Victims of Access to Justice and Judicial Remedy and Making It Impossible Palestinian Authority sceptical as 3rd round of Amman talks begin Israeli and Palestinians set [...]
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15 January 2012
Author: Amira Hass. Via Haaretz website On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not fair that the officer who then served as [...]
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29 December 2011
Via Electronic Intifada, by Asa Winstanley An influential UK charity denounced Jewish critics of Israel in secret reports to the government earlier this year, The Electronic Intifada has learned. The Community Security Trust (CST) is known for its work recording anti-Semitic attacks and for security patrols at Jewish communal events. But evidence uncovered by The Electronic Intifada suggests the CST works behind the [...]
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19 December 2011
Via: Foundation for Middle East Peace Settlement Report | Vol. 21 No. 6 | November-December 2011 By Geoffrey Aronson The Madrid Peace Conference convened two decades ago in a spirit of great optimism. However it was Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, dragged to the meeting by President George H.W. Bush, who offered the most prescient commentary [...]
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15 December 2011
Via the Huffington Post, by Joel D. Scheinert, Lawyer. “This time they went too far. On Tuesday morning a group of 50 right wing, ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers broke into a West Bank Israeli military base and burned tires, vandalized property, threw rocks at the jeep of a senior officer and spread nails on the road. One Israeli [...]
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11 December 2011
After the statehood bid… United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said last Wednesday the Palestinian flag would be raised at its Paris headquarters tomorrow after Palestine won full membership despite Israeli and US objections. The flag will be raised on Tuesday “to mark Palestine’s admission to the organisation” in the presence of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas [...]
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06 December 2011
via the Jewish Chronicle November 24, 2011: Report by MEC Business Intelligence Consultants (www.meconsult.co.uk) of a visit to Gaza three weeks ago, published on the Conservative Middle East Council website. Sir Robert Atkins is a Conservative member of the European Parliament and former minister. Yet again, Israel refused us access via its crossing-point so we [...]
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04 December 2011
Each year approx. 700 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts. They are frequently arrested by heavily armed soldiers in the middle of the night, tied painfully, blindfolded and taken to an interrogation centre in a military vehicle. It is rare for parents to be told the reason for [...]
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01 December 2011
A new book of essays, by leading figures in the Labour movement, ‘’celebrates openly Israel’s achievements as a vibrant democracy’’. The book is in memory of David Cairns who ‘’called for the left to remind themselves of the values that brought us into progressive politics, and to acknowledge that there is still only one country [...]
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