Posts tagged: West Bank

The Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility delegation to Gaza is flying home

By Gerri Haynes (Gerri Haynes, a former president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, has been sending back reports from inside blockaded Gaza. As she did three times before, Gerri organized a team of doctors and other health care providers to work in hospitals and clinics in Gaza in an effort to directly help the [...]

Friday October 28th, 2011 in , , , , | No Comments »

Popular uprisings all over the Middle East a death knell for U.S. credibility

WRITTEN BY TOMI LAINE CLARK COMMENTARY (To read more of Tomi’s writing, go to her bog: Disenchanted Princess, Peace through truth)   The U.S. has lost all credibility, as well as the opportunity to be relevant, in the region. Popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan have been the main topic of news media of [...]

Saturday February 5th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Seattle media campaign, vigil remember and protest Israel’s assault on Gaza

(The following is from a Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign press release.) On Dec. 27, the second anniversary of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, Seattle-area activists are launching a Metro bus ad campaign to expose the use of U.S. taxpayer money to support Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people. Inspired by similar public advertising campaigns [...]

Director of Wi’am, a Palestinian conflict resolution center talks of hope

Zoughbi Zoughbi, the of Director of Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem, speaks in this video about his reasons for having hope about the challenges facing Palestinians in the long struggle to find peace in the Palestine-Israel conflict. Wi’am is a grassroots organization working to promote peace by training people on both sides [...]

Saturday December 18th, 2010 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Canadians, Europeans take lead in campaign to boycott Israeli goods

I’ve been posting a lot about Gaza and Israel lately, and, yes, I do know there are many more issues out there worthy of consideration. But I just can’t seem to help myself. It is, after all, one of the most important conflicts the United States is involved in, along with Iraq and Afghanistan. And, [...]

Wednesday March 31st, 2010 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Prison, death part of daily struggle for people in Gaza and the West Bank

The news out of Gaza and the West Bank usually focuses on major events – visits by U.S. dignitaries, rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel or major air raids or other attacks from Israel into Gaza or the West Bank. The daily struggle is rarely mentioned. This note from Huwaida Arraf, an American lawyer with [...]

Monday March 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Rachel Corrie lawsuit set for Wednesday in Israel

Thanks to ROFTO Radio – Palestine, I recently received a letter from the parents of Rachel Corrie, describing the lawsuit scheduled to begin on Wednesday in Haifa District Court in Israel. Rofto.net describes itself as a “Palestinian guy-owned independent network that promotes constructive dialogue and understanding within the Middle East and All the world.” Here’s [...]

Monday March 8th, 2010 in , , , , | 3 Comments »

Mideast peace efforts take another hit

More bad news came today for peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. The Israeli foreign minister, just hours before meeting with President Obama’s special envoy on Mideast peace, George Mitchell, said there is no chance of reaching a final agreement with the Palestinians in the near future. “Anyone who says that within the next [...]

Thursday October 8th, 2009 in , , , , | No Comments »