Dear friends, ACT NOW:   Flood the Israeli Ministry of Interior with faxes, emails, calls.  DEMAND THAT DR. FINKELSTEIN BE PERMITTED TO ENTER ISRAEL IN ORDER TO REACH THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY! Minister of Interior Mr. Meir SHEETRIT Israeli Ministry...

Al Jazeera English PROGRAMMES GENERAL   Balfour to Blair  The Israeli-Arab conflict is arguably the most intractable and the most explosive issue in the world today.  Though there may be no end in sight, it does have a beginning. For nearly a...

Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt)  A Grassroots Campaign for the Protection of Foreign Passport Holders Residing in and/or Visiting the oPt  For Immediate Release 20 May 2008 For more information:  Ms....

HuffingtonPost.com Posted May 4, 2008 | 03:53 PM (EST) Israelis Manhandling US General and Washington is Silent  By Daoud Kuttab Shortly before the convening of the one day Annapolis meeting aimed at giving a push to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, last...

Dear Friends: This is from the Israeli licensed march of Palestinian families at the old destroyed arab village of Safurye.  About half way through the clip CNN's own Ben Welderman gets harassed too and barks back.  If this is how Israel treats Palestinians...

RETHINKING ISRAEL AFTER SIXTY YEARS  Jeff Halper  May, 2008  Israeli Independence Day 2008, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the rise of the Jewish State on the ruins of Palestinian society, should be cause more for sober reflection and reevaluation...

www.haaretz.com Last update - 02:16 12/05/2008  Bush should stay home  By Akiva Eldar  If George Bush were a true friend of Israel, he would seize the investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as an excuse to stay home tomorrow. Unless he has a...

Dear friends, It was brought to my attention by several of you that the photos and links in my post last night regarding the Dalia Association did not appear in the message.  I apologize. Kindly visit Dalia at: http://www.dalia.ps/   and, if possible, kindly make a...

Dear Friends,There has been much talk about how Palestine has become dependent on donors. This is true and a sad fact that is seriously hindering our ability as a community to decide the best path of action that upholds our own community's interests. Reality today...

Dear Friends, This article from yesterday's NYT requires many corrections, namely, how one can equate "statehood" from 2000 years ago with today's notion of a nation state.  That said, the article remains powerful in that it looks at Palestinians INSIDE...

To sign up for a tour, visit:  http://www.toursinenglish.com Alternative Tourism Comes of Age  By Natalie Weinstock (11 April 2008 Yidiot Achronot – Israel)  The recently concluded Passover holiday in Israel includes the Jewish traditions of deep...

Arab News The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily  Monday 5 May 2008 Are We Witnessing the Death of Israel by a Thousand Cuts?  By Jonathan Power, jonatpower@aol.com —  Even Jimmy Carter, who single handedly (without much Jewish...

Dear friends, I pass this very important article on the 60 year remembrance of the al-Nakba.  This article is one of a set of articles published in the May issue of This Week in Palestine  which is dedicated to the al-Nakba and is published in black &...

For Immediate Release  27 April 2008 For more information please contact: Rasha Mukbil, Campaign Coordinator +970-59-817-3953, info@righttoenter.ps, www.RightToEnter.ps Right to Enter Campaign meets with Blair Calls on Quartet to take concrete steps to solve the...

Please write Congressman Dennis KUCINICH a  message of support at http://kucinich.house.gov/Contact/ Congressional Record, April 22, 2008,  Page: H2522 Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, today I join my colleagues in Congress in celebrating Israel's accomplishments...

The Nation  posted April 17, 2008 (May 5, 2008 issue)  Tough Love for Israel  Henry Siegman  We now have word that Tony Blair, envoy of the Middle East Quartet (the UN, the EU, Russia and the United States), and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

'Anyone gets close, I kill him. Don't bug me. I kill. I have no mercy.'  Independent.co.uk  Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army  In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have...

Uri Avnery  12.4.08                                        Manifest...

10 - 16 April 2008 Issue No. 892 Genocide announced Bombs would fall under other circumstances, but when influential rabbis call for the total annihilation of the Palestinians the world watches without blinking, writes Saleh Al-Naami "All of the Palestinians must...

Counterpunch Weekend Edition  Apri1 5 / 6, 2008  My Father Died Alone in Gaza  There are No Checkpoints in Heaven    By RAMZY BAROUD  I still vividly remember my father's face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished me farewell...

London Review of Books  Grab more hills, expand the territory    Henry Siegman        * The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77 by Gershom Gorenberg      * Lords of...