Rami Almeghari,The Electronic Intifada, 10 December 2010 Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip's only power plant, plunging the territory -- which already suffers from frequent outages -- into darkness.Media reports said the air strikes hit two sites belonging to Hamas near the Gaza power plant in Moghraqa village, central Gaza.Engineer … [read more]

Former Israeli soldiers who have testified against army abuses have for the first time given up their anonymity, to make their voices all the harder to ignore. Donald Macintyre gets an exclusive preview of a powerful new book, Sunday, 12 December 2010, The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent Avichay Stolar is a researcher of Breaking the Silence. He says: 'Young soldiers learn from their … [read more]

26 former top EU officials, including ex EU chief Solana and former German President Richard von Weizsacker, urge world powers to confront Jerusalem over its refusal to obey international law. By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz 12.10.2010 A group of 26 senior former European leaders who held power during the past decade are calling for strong measures against Israel in response to its settlement policy … [read more]

Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Guy Burton Conflict-related Development Analysis Program:     Occupied Palestinian Territory, Conflict Causes and Development Initiatives – A Structural Analysis   by Dr. Guy Burton (Researcher at the Centre for Development Studies at BirZeit University, Ramallah, West Bank)   Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 13:00 – … [read more]

Canadian Boat to Gaza Project http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/donations.aspx Dear Friend of the Canadian Boat to Gaza Project,     What if you could bring real tidings of comfort and joy to the people of Palestine? And what if you could do it with the click of a button?     The Palestinians of Gaza are suffering through the fourth year of a … [read more]

November 30, 2010 Israel’s measures to 'ease’ the illegal blockade of Gaza in the face of significant international pressure have done little to change the plight of Gaza’s civilians, says a report published today by an international coalition of development, human rights and peace-building organisations. They are calling for renewed international action to ensure an immediate, … [read more]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, November 30, 2010 http://www.qumsiyeh.org/thoughtsongermanyandpalestine/     The conference in Stuttgart about Palestine was themed "Separated in the past, together in the future", was sold-out, and had some high powered speakers and lots of energy [1]. We listened, spoke, networked, bought each others' books, ate, hugged, cried, and laughed.  I … [read more]

http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/786     Occupied Palestine, 30 November 2010 - "May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence‟, pleaded intellectual Bertrand Russell at the first meeting of the citizens' War Crimes Tribunal that investigated US war crimes during its war on Vietnam.1 At a time when little was known in the wider public about US conduct in Vietnam, the tribunal … [read more]

by PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity),# 511 Nov 26th 2010 "For those of us who live here, it is something we take for granted. But visitors from abroad cannot believe their eyes."     Under the guise of the deceptively mundane name "Amendment to the Cooperative Associations Bill," the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) has finalized a … [read more]

PCHR- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Press Release, 25. November 2010 On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Let our Motto be: No to Silence on Violence against Palestinian Women     On 25 November of every year, the world celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which was adopted by the UN on 17 … [read more]

by Jeff Halper Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out of this interminable and absolutely superfluous conflict, I have been two-thirds successful. After many years of activism and analysis, I think I have put my finger on the first third of the equation: What is the problem? My answer, which has withstood the … [read more]

from BDS Movement, Occupied Palestine, November 2010 http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/785   Veolia and Alstom, the two French companies involved in the construction and management of a tramway linking west Jerusalem with illegal Israeli colonial settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory, described by the UN Human Rights Council as a “clear violation of international law and … [read more]