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 – 15:00 hrs
Department of African Studies, ...
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The Palestinians of Gaza are suffering through the fourth year of a blockade, which violates international law because it ...
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, unconditional and complete lifting of the ...
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 mostly spent lots of time in thinking; maybe because waiting at ...
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 exposed and brought to the fore of public discourse the ...
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 bill intended to bypass previous rulings of the Israeli High ...