سعادة السفير عهدناك متحدثاً قويا ومدافعاً شرساً عن حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني منذ قدومك الى لندن عام ٢٠٠٥. فمع شح الموارد للسفارة مقارنةً بالطرف الاخر سمعتك تتحدث في العديد من المؤتمرات والمظاهرات وكنت دائماً أشعر بإخلاصك لقضيتها العادلة. وهاذا ما زاد من هول الصدمة عندما قرأت المقال المشترك بينك والبروفيسور رافائيل كوهين -الماغور في مجلت فأقوم …
Continue reading رسالة مفتوحة الى السفير الفلسطيني لبريطانيا الدكتور مانويل حساسيان
Action alert from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign here as the Bedouin citizens of Israel have their village demolished again.
Image from the Daily Telegraph Israeli leaders would like us all to think that resolving the Palestinian injustice is now an issue that is past its sell by date. Nobody cares of a 47 year old occupation simply continues forever. They point to events in Syria, Libya and now Iraq and place these way above …
Continue reading The Palestinian issue is still the key to peace in the Middle East
Here are links to my appearance on the 'Debate' programme on Press TV on 8/6/2014. This covered Administrative detainees as well as the peace talks. The other guest just could not see that the Pope's gesture in bringing Abbas and Peres to pray at the Vatican had limited value as I argued here. Part 1 …
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The Observer 8/6/2014 Link A group called Breaking the Silence has spent 10 years collecting accounts from Israeli soldiers who served in the Palestinian territories. To mark the milestone, 10 hours' worth of testimony was read to an audience in Tel Aviv. Here we print some extracts Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian after clashes at …
Continue reading Stories from an occupation: the Israelis who broke silence
Geographically, the EU covers the whole of Europe but scientifically and culturally it includes only one non- EU state, Israel. It plays football and other sports in Europe, sings in the Eurovision Song Contest and is now to join the UE's Horizon 2020 research programme. A signing ceremony is to take place on Sunday 8/6. …
Continue reading The European Horizon exceptionally includes Apartheid Israel, why?
Image from http://www.imemc.org The following Early Day Motion was submitted on 5/6/2014 in the UK Parliament. Please ask your MP to sign it. Early Day Motions (EDMs) are formal motions submitted for debate in the House of Commons. However, very few are actually debated. EDMs allow MPs to draw attention to an event or cause. …
Press release by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign 5/6/2014 The annual general meeting of global security company, G4S, was severely disrupted today by campaigners protesting about the company’s alleged complicity in human rights abuses and breaches of international law. Instead of discussing issues such as capital growth, the AGM was dominated by the subject of G4S’s …
Image from the Guardian Western powers have been adamant over the years that they will not firmly criticise, let alone sanction Israel because any act could derail the peace process. Let us out to one side the fact that the process has become an illusion that has not led to peace. In fact it has …
Continue reading No more ‘we must avoid any act that will derail the peace process’ please
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Image from the Telegraph I am not jumping to conclusions and assuming the US, or the EU for that matter, is making a radical change in policy towards Israel. Should a veto be required in the UN Security Council, the US Index finger will rise without hesitation. But for the …
Continue reading Is Israel’s reliance on unconditional backing coming to an end?
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