The National  Israelis risk jail to smuggle Palestinians   Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent  * Last Updated: August 24. 2010 12:40AM UAE / August 23. 2010 8:40PM GMT  NAZARETH, ISRAEL // Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of...

"For two years I saw people suffering and I didn't do anything – and that's really scary," said Michelzon. "At the end, it felt like the army betrayed me – they used me, I couldn't recognise myself. What we call protecting our country is...

The Miami Herald  Posted on Sun, Aug. 15, 2010  Second-class citizens  BY GEORGE BISHARAT and NIMER SULTANY nsultany@law.harvard.edu  Should Israel be encouraged to enact legislation guaranteeing equal rights for all of its citizens as part of any...

NEW BOOK: http://markbraverman.org/fatal-embrace/ I'm currently reviewing.  A bold read so far. Watching a world change...one heart at a time, Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog: http://www.epalestine.com...

http://www.thelancet.com/health-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-2010 Health resistance perseveres, Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog: http://www.epalestine.com...

WASHINGTON POST Palestinian village to be encircled by barrier By KARIN LAUB The Associated Press Saturday, July 10, 2010; 12:31 PM WALAJEH, West Bank -- Israel has started construction on a new section of its West Bank separation barrier that Palestinian residents...

NOTE: Link to this article is at bottom of this article. The link has a map worth viewing. The New York Times  July 5, 2010  Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank  By JIM RUTENBERG, MIKE McINTIRE and ETHAN BRONNER  HAR BRACHA, West Bank...

Dear friends, No wonder the US and Israel have a "special relationship";  they share a similar foundation, one that is painful for so many in the short run and unsustainable in the long run.  May Howard be resting in a peace we still lack on earth. Humanity's weakest...

T h e A m e r i c a n C o n s e r v a t i v e August 2010 Mideast Sinking Ship The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer http://amconmag.com/article/2010/aug/01/00010/ Clarity is a virtue, Sam...

Activism News  Activists prevent Israeli ship from unloading at US port  Report, The Electronic Intifada, 21 June 2010  For the first time in US history, a peaceful protest was able to stop workers from unloading an Israeli cargo ship on Sunday, 20...

Echoes From The Warsaw Ghetto In Gaza  An Interview with Cecilie Surasky By Christiana Voniati  19 June, 2010  Countercurrents.org  Gazing at letters that her grandmother wrote from the Warsaw Ghetto before she was killed , Deputy Director of the...

THE HILL Comment OPINION: Peacemaking takes courage, leaders  By Mahmoud Abbas - 06/08/10 06:00 AM ET  Negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis have resumed after a year and a half of a stalemate that began after Israel launched its devastating...

Dear friends, Watch this SILENT DEMO calling for an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza: Posted on June 7 2010 by Cecilie Surasky Stand With Us/SF Voices for Israel shout Pigs for Palestine, threaten activists in San Francisco  (3:47 minutes) All the noise you hear...

Dear friends, For all of you in high gear organizing on the Flotilla Affair, which should be named the Gaza Suffocation Affair, here is a list that you can refer to: http://gisha.org/UserFiles/File/HiddenMessages/ItemsGazaStrip060510.pdf It was produced by an Israeli...

http://www.grittv.org/2010/06/01/richard-falk-huwaida-arraf-norman-finkelstein-freedom-flotilla/ Also, the link to the last statement sent from Right to Enter Campaign: http://www.righttoenter.ps/etemplate.php?id=168...

RTE Statement on the Flotilla Attack Please distribute widely.In struggle, Sam-----------------------------------------------------------------------Everything about this list: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/epalestineTo unsubscribe, send mail to:...

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/emily-henochowicz-u-s-art-student-shot- with-tear-gas-gun-by-idf-soldier-at-protest/ Not time to talk, time to O-R-G-A-N-I-Z-E, Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ePalestine Blog:...

Dear friends,This esssy is an absolute must read for anyone wanting to understand the depth of the bigger picture we are facing in Palestine.Prof. Virginia Tilley is a renowned scholar who has the ability to not only shed light on the Palestine-Israel dynamics, but...

Baltimore Chronicle  MIDDLE EAST CONUNDRUM:  Gonna Still Be Quoting Emerson When They Lock Me Up  by Deb Reich  (Israel/Palestine, May 2010)—When I first came to Israel from New York nearly half a century ago, a youngster in search of my...

Is the Middle East on a peace process to nowhere?  Israeli iconoclast Meron Benvenisti says negotiations for a Palestinian state are an illusion that perpetuates the status quo  * Ian Black, Middle East editor, in Jerusalem  * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  May 10, 2010  Contact:  Ziyaad Lunat, BNC  +351 938349206,  ziyaad@bdsmovement.net  Palestinian civil society slams OECD over Israel’s accession  Occupied Palestine – Palestinian civil...