An American group returning from Gaza says it will deliver a letter from Hamas to US President Barack Obama who is to give a landmark address to the Muslim world in the Egyptian capital on Thursday. Hamas official Ahmad Yousef confirmed that he wrote the letter, which the US women's antiwar group CODEPINK plans to deliver on Thursday.
An American group returning from Gaza says it will deliver a letter from Hamas to US President Barack Obama who is to ...
Published On 6/3/2009 By SARA ROY
The recent meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu generated speculation over the future relationship between America and Israel, and a potentially changed U.S. policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Analysts on the right and left are commenting on a new, tougher American policy characterized by strengthened U.S. demands on Israel. However, beneath the diplomatic choreography lies an ...
Obama's speech shows little real change. In most regards his analysis maintains flawed American policies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/04/barack-obama-middleeast
Once you strip away the mujamalat – the courtesies exchanged between guest and host – the substance of President Obama's speech in Cairo indicates there is likely to be little real change in US policy. It is not necessary to divine Obama's ...
European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza, by Gerry MacLochlainn; Tuesday 26th May 2009
Tuesday 26th - the delegates from the convoy that were permitted to enter Gaza by the Egyptian Authorities awoke to see Gaza City this morning. It has been a surreal 24 hours.
Only yesterday, we were waking up after a night on the floor of the Rafah checkpoint. Where we were inexplicably stranded when the Egyptian authorities after stamping our exit ...
Report by the Anti-imperialist Camp’s delegation Rafah, May 24, late night
For 10 days we have been waiting in Egypt to get into Gaza with the caravan “Hope” initiated by the “European Campaign to end the siege on Gaza”. The caravan is composed of 120 people from a dozen European countries and about 40 vehicles (ambulances and trucks packed with medical goods).
It has been planned to take over the vehicles coming from Genoa by ...
Press release
Montreal, May 22th / The 17 member Quebec delegation to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has been denied entry to Gaza by Israeli authorities at the Erez Crossing Point on Thursday May 21st. Since Sunday May 17th, the delegation has travelled to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
''We are very disappointed by the Israeli refusal to let us into Gaza'' said delegation member Lorraine Guay. ...
