Archive for the 'Commentary' Category

A kind of military coup

Monday, May 21st, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary

By Haaretz Editorial, 21 May 2007

Does Israel still uphold that proper state of affairs in which the elected government sets policy and civil servants carry it out? According to an article published in Haaretz yesterday (”The spirit of the commander prevails”...

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The Struggle Uses Images to Counter the Wall

Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary

The Struggle Uses Images to Counter the Wall
Interview with Shai Pollak from the Nyon film festival
from Solidarités

During an interval in the screening of Shai Carmeli Pollak’s film Bil’in...

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Flee, Freedom Fighter, Flee

Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary

Ha’aretz: Flee, Freedom Fighter, Flee
by Yonatan Pollack, translated by Rann Bar-On

The basis of my political education, on the price one must pay for the struggle, was very close to home - within the family in fact. My grandfather, Nimrod...

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Profiles of Peace: Faces of Hope campaign

Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Photos, Commentary

Celebrating 40 Israeli and Palestinian peace builders
Three ISM Co-Founders Celebrated, Huwaida Arraf, Ghassan Andoni, Neta Golan

from American Friends Service Committee, 10 May 2007

June 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli...

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The Effects of Democratically Electing a Government in Palestine

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Commentary

Mideast Youth: Silencing mainstream media on Palestine

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary

The very un-noble silence of the mainstream American/Western media on Palestine
by Ray Hanania, 29 April 2007

Imagine if Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor and author of 36...

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The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, International Actions, Gaza Region, Rachel Corrie, Commentary

Ei: Bringing the discussion home: The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project
Andrew Ford Lyons, 1 May 2007

Possibly noteworthy was that more than 300 people attended the standing-room only public hearing on the project. People waited outside the building...

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Future plans for Gaza

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 | Posted in Commentary

JPost: When will it end?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Commentary

When will it all end?
by Gershon Baskin, 24 April 2007

When the siren sounds I cry. The world stops and despite the whining scream of the siren - silence is what I hear. The pain of loss, the weeping...

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Blood on Our Hands

Monday, April 16th, 2007 | Posted in Commentary

Blood on Our Hands
Uri Avnery, 14 April 2007

April 17th is recognized annually by Palestinians as Prisoner’s Day

AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing.

The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems...

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