Cyprus – 1 June, 2010
The UN Security Council Calls for Impartial, Credible Investigation of Israeli Boat Raid. The raid in international waters, on the aid convoy headed to Gaza left at least 16 civilians dead. After an emergency session wrapped up in the early hours this morning, the council agreed to language condemning the acts that resulted in the deaths and injuries aboard the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara and the European Campaign’s vessel ...
Israel is intensifying its crackdown on Palestinian Civil Society. As a result, Addameer (the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) has submitted an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders on behalf of Ameer Makhoul.
Mr. Makhoul is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. He was arrested at his home in Haifa on May 6th and detained by Israel since then at an interrogation ...
From Viva Palestina's Crew Member Kevin Ovenden
At 08.50 am today we are awaiting the arrival of the European parliamentarians, who begin to shuttle from Northern Cyprus to our staging ground in international waters to the south of the island where they will board the lead ship. The decision by the Greek Cypriot government not only not to allow the flotilla to harbour there, but also to object to, and twice prevent, the departure of a parliamentary ...
Interior Ministry seeking IDF approval to let American professor just into West Bank; rights group: Decision characteristic of totalitarian regime. By Amira Hass
Professor Noam Chomsky, an American linguist and left-wing activist, was denied entry into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday.
No reason was initially given for the decision, but the Interior Ministry later said immigration officials at the Allenby Bridge border crossing from ...
Israeli iconoclast Meron Benvenisti says negotiations for a Palestinian state are an illusion that perpetuates the status quo
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* Ian Black, Middle East editor, in Jerusalem
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 April 2010 12.46 BST
Meron Benvenisti has been talking, writing and arguing about the Israel-Palestinian conflict for much of the last 40 years. Now aged 76 he is as forceful, articulate and unconventional as ever – and ...
For the return of the Palestinian refugees and the establishment of a democratic secular state in historic Palestine
We, the undersigned, support the call of the preparatory committee of the 2nd Haifa conference for the return of the Palestinian refugees and for the establishment of a democratic secular state in historic Palestine.
Stop ethnic cleansing. For the return of the Palestinian refugees to all the areas from which they were ...
