Supporters of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike since 24 April to protest their Administrative Detention use the hashtag salt and water #مي_وملح. Hunger strikers drink water mixed with salt to help keep their bodies functioning. Palestinian singer Qasem Najjar has just released this video in solidarity with the prisoners.
Category: Apartheid
Pope Francis means well but the proposed Peres / Abbas meeting provides continued cover for the occupation
Image from @ynet Pope Francis is making a historic trip to the Middle East. He was made very welcome in Jordan. He deliberately landed in Bethlehem for his trip to Palestine and at the time of writing had landed in Israel. This is a tricky trip as he manoeuvres around tricky issues including the logistics. …
To Palestinians, Israel is a colonialist, racist, ethnic cleansing, occupying, Apartheid state
Not a day passes without Israel doing something or planning something that angers me. The most recent revelation was reported by Amira Hass in Haaretz yesterday, 21 May. IDF uses live-fire zones to expel Palestinians from areas of West Bank, officer admits. I sat back and wondered what kind of a state does this to …
Israeli Journalist Amira Hass describes the occupation in 2006.
Here is an excellent description of what the military Israeli occupation means for Palestinians. Haaretz reporter, Amira Hass who lives in Ramallah, uses examples of what this means to her own friends. From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State
US officials say Israel is to blame for talks failure but impose no sanction on it
In a very revealing article, Nahum Barnea Inside the talks' failure: US officials open up presents what he considers an official US analysis of why the talks failed. In essence blame is squarely laid at Israel and Netanyahu's door. [update 5/5/2014 According to Dr Daoud Kuttab (Twitter @daoudkuttab), the unnamed US Official is believed to …
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Birmingham vigil for Palestinian hunger strikers 3 May
Over 200 Palestinian prisoners started an open-ended hunger strike a week ago to protest their administrative detentions by the Israeli occupying forces without any guilt or charges leveled against them. The West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WMPSC) will hold a vigil as part of the May Day event outside Waterstones, on Sat 3rd May 12pm …
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For Israel’s leaders, the writing is on the ‘Apartheid Wall’
The 'A' word, Apartheid has become inextricably linked to the 'I' word, Israel. The latest warning by the weary US Secretary of State, John Kerry, that Israel risks becoming an Apartheid state if the two state solution expires is not the first time the link has been established. In fact past Israeli Prime Ministers Barak …
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