Author: shergald

The Carter Groundswell

Philip Weiss, writing in The American Conservative, the February 26, 2007 Issue, provides yet another weigh in on Jimmy Carter’s book: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The title of his article, Honest Broker, and subtitle,...

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Impunity for Violence Against Palestinian Women

Al-Haq, a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in Ramallah, West Bank since 1979, on March 9, 2007 issued the following press release on the occasion of International Women’s Day, entitled Impunity...

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Australia and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

This diary takes a look at efforts in Australia to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially organizations that are directly focused on Palestinian human rights and their right to an independent sovereign nation of...

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Is Israel on the Verge of Legalized Racism?

JONATHAN COOK, a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, and long time observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, concluded in an article entitled, We, the Jewish state, published January 2007, that the state of Israel...

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Gaza fishing industry under siege

Since the abduction by Palestinian resistance groups of Israeli soldier Gila’d Shalit on June 25, 2006 and the reinvasion of Gaza, Israeli gun ships have prevented Palestinians from fishing off the Gaza coast, which has...

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