BEIRUT: British MP George Galloway announced on Tuesday 23rd March the foundation of the first annual University of Palestine, due to take place in Lebanon each year to educate Lebanese and international students on the Palestinian cause. “We are going to bring 500 students from all over the world to study intensively for one week the Palestinian question: the history, the geography the culture and the politics. They will come from America, Australia an ...

Barcelona March 1-3 2010, Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds EU states guilty of breaches of international and internal EU law You may be interested to hear that the first Russell Tribunal on Palestine held 3 days of hearings in Barcelona March 1-3 this year. The Tribunal derives from the UK philosopher Bertrand Russell, who with Jean Paul Sartre and other luminaries set up the first Tribunal, a most influential affair- on the Vietnam war in 1965. This ...

by Rory McCarthy Evictions and planning decisions on the ground are jeopardising prospects for a two-state Middle East peace deal from: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=63995&s2=09 March 8, 2010     In the brochure handed out by the mayor's office in Jerusalem last week, there were pretty sketches illustrating a development that would turn a poor, crowded area into a park, with streams, restaurants and hotels. It talked of rev ...