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 brutal, d ...

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 test of time and today is so evident that it elicits the res ...

Bill stipulates a two-thirds Knesset majority or a referendum on any potential land-for-peace deal concluded with Arabs. AlJazeera.net; November 22, 2010 Israel's parliament, backed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has approved a law that requires a two-thirds Knesset majority or a referendum on any potential land-for-peace deal concluded with Arab neighbours.     The law, which was passed by a vote of 65 to 33 on Monday, calls for ...