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What Would Jesus Do in Gaza?--Newsweek--What would Jesus do in the Holy Land today. The narrow confines of Gaza, Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria are places where God's love was long ago supplanted by war for land and ill will among men. It has been a year now since the bloody and fruitless Israeli effort to crush Hamas in what amounts to a massive prison for a million people. Peacemakers in the Middle East are rarely blessed, and often reviled; just ask special envoy George Mitchell. And the truth rarely sets anyone free, as proved most recently by the fact-filled United Nations report by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, which was dissed by Washington and dismissed by Israel. Click here.
Egyptian Authorities Bar Gaza Freedom March
Using the pretext of escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has informed organizers of the Gaza Freedom March that the Rafah border will be closed over the coming weeks, into January. Organizers are calling for pressure on the Egyptian government to let the march pass into Gaza. Click here.
The Next War on Gaza--Haaretz
Prime Minister Netanyahu's brother-in-law, Hagai Ben Artzi, confronted the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit as he awaited a decision by senior ministers on a deal to secure the release of his son. "I hope that we will be able to release Gilad during the next war in Gaza," he said. Noam Shalit asked him when: "Either in two months, or in six months." Click here.
Gaza March Spotlight on Civilian Suffering--IPS.com
More than 50,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Gaza on Dec. 31 for a mass march designed to send a message to the United States, a key supporter of Israel's army, that the situation in Gaza violates international human rights laws. Organisers say the main catalyst for the mobilisation was the Goldstone Report. Click here.

Gazan families living in tents
Politics Hamper Gaza Recon- struction--Al-Jazeera--At the Sharm El Sheikh conference on reconstruction in March, international donors pledged almost $4.5bn in aid, chiefly to rebuild Gaza....control over these funds immediately sparked disputes between Hamas and Fatah...The disputes have delayed delivery of the funds. Click here.

Footnotes in Gaza
Adam Horowitz in Mondoweiss--As we approach the one year anniversary of Israel’s attack on Gaza, we are proud to be able to share with you an exclusive peek at Joe Sacco’s new book Footnotes in Gaza. Rather than focus on the current phase of the conflict, the book deals with an often forgotten, or unknown, event – the massacre of 111 Palestinians by Israeli forces in the Gaza towns of Rafah and Khan Younis in 1956. While these southern Gazan towns are currently in the news as the Gaza Freedom March and Viva Palestina convoy try to enter Rafah from Egypt, Sacco’s book takes us back to 1948 and 1956 to show us how we arrived at the point we are today....  as we turn our eyes towards Gaza on this solemn anniversary, let us remember everything that came before it. Click here.


Carter helps rebuild homes in Thailand
Gaza Must Be Rebuilt Now  Jimmy Carter in the UK Guardian--It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no Arab or Islamic nation will accept any comprehensive agreement while Israel retains control of East Jerusalem. Click to read.
Six Palestinians Killed in Nablus--BBC News--The Israeli raid began in the early hours of the morning and lasted for several hours....there had not been a raid like this in Nablus for about 18 months...The violence came a day before the first anniversary of the Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Click here to read.
Palestinians Kill Israeli Civilian in Nablus--B'Tselem--Over the past nine years, Palestinian terror attacks perpetrated in Israel and in the Occupied Territories have killed hundreds and injured thousands of Israeli civilians...Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal. Intentional killing of civilians is a grave breach of international humanitarian law and is considered a war crime that can never be justified, whatever the circumstances may be. Click here.
Local Activists Targeted in Occupied Territories--Amnesty International--Scores of activists, (Israeli, Palestinian and international) involved in peaceful protests have been picked up by Israeli authorities in the past several months.  Many are held at length with no charge being made while still being interrogated, others have been put under administrative detention and others are brought up on chargesClick to read.
Who Are the Settlers and What Do They Want?--Israeli Policy Forum--The settlements, as a whole, have been sponsored and constructed by various Israeli governments.  Almost all of the settlements have an extensive infrastructure of roads and electricity that can only have been accomplished by numerous Israeli governments. Click to read.
America Stop Sucking Up to Israel--Haaretz--Before no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from occupied territory in Kuwait? But Israel the occupier, the stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives different treatment.  Click here to read.
Israel Planning Seven Settlement Neighborhoods in Jerusalem--IMEMC News--The plan was put forth regardless of the stances of the American government regarding settlement activities and their negative impacts on the peace process. The seven plans for settlement construction are: Click here
Beat the War Drum Again: Israel Wants Iran Next--"Same Song, Different Verse" by Philip Giraldi
The American people, barely coping with nearly 20% in actual as opposed to statistical unemployment, a broken health care system, a skyrocketing federal deficit, and a collapse in home values really don’t need another war, but another war is what they are going to get.  Blame the usual players in Congress and the mainstream media for a lot of it, but the case being made that Iran is a threat to the remainder of the world is largely being cranked up by Israel and its yapping poodles loosely described as the Israel lobby. Click here to read.
World's Least Powerful Man--Paul Craig Roberts--It didn't take the Israel Lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Obama discovered that a mere American president is powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby...the United States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate from Israel's...click here.

The doyen of international justice
The U.S. Does Not Have to Blindly Protect Israel--Justice Richard Goldstone--When Shimon Peres accused Justice Goldstone of being "a small man, devoid of any sense of justice", he responded with " no one likes to be accused of committing serious war crimes". Justice Goldstone asked that, rather than blindly support Israel, the U.S. "furnish reasons" for its criticisms."...The time has come for Israel to look at the allegations not only of the killing and injuring of so many civilians but also the collective punishment meted out to the people of Gaza by the substantial destruction of the infrastructure." Click to read.

Harvard professor Stephen Walt
Why the U.S. Will Not Cut Aid to Israel--Stephen M. Walt
Harvard professor and co-author of the "Israel Lobby" opines that Israel will get what it wants: control of the West Bank and de-facto control of the Gaza Strip. "The sun is now setting on the "two-state solution" -- if it is not already well below the horizon -- and pretty soon everyone will have to admit that they are sitting around in the dark and pretending they see daylight." Netanyahu and his gang are intransigent, Obama is powerless against the Congress, and legislators are caught in the vice-grip of the Israel Lobby. Don't look for a J-Street turnaround too soon. Click here to read.
 

Two courageous men: Goldstone & Moyers
Goldstone-Moyers: Being Jewish No Reason to Treat Israel Exceptionally--James M. Wall
An absolutely brilliant interview. Anyone who saw it or reads it will have to take pause if they refused to admit the outrageous injustices perpetrated upon a people who are kept in open-air kennel. There is bad karma coming to all who support this oppression. Click here to read or Click here to view interview

Uri Avnery
Israel's Options to Goldstone
Uri Avnery--3 term Knesset member
"The Goldstone report has an impact on the world because it is precise and targeted: a specific operation, for which specific persons are responsible...
According to a Chinese saying, if someone in the street tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off.
Our political and military leadership has already encountered the third, fourth and fifth person. All of them say that they must investigate what happened in the “Molten Lead” operation." Click here to read

Now Bibi, shake hands with Mahmoud--and come out fighting!
Netanyahu: Goldstone Report Distorted--Josef Friedman AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges over their actions during last winter's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a keynote address to parliament. Click here to read.
Boycott's and Divestments-The Link
Americans for Middle East Understanding have focused on a few companies in their treatise of Boycotts and Divestment including Motorola, Caterpillar, Burger King, Ahava Cosmetics and Veolia Transport. There is also additional discussion and information on B&D that is interesting and useful.
Click here to read.
Gaza Water Supply Near Collapse--Mel Frykberg--IPS
The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says outbreaks of disease could be triggered as a consequence..."Gaza's underground water system is in danger of collapse after recent conflict compounded by years of overuse and contamination. An outbreak of Hepatitis A and parasitic infections could occur at any time," Mahmoed Daher from WHO in Gaza told IPS. "Already the number of people, especially children, suffering from diarrhoea has risen dramaticall. We have noticed an increase in people suffering from kidney diseases from water contaminated with toxins, as well as babies born with an unnatural blue tinge." Click here to read.
Dismantling the Matrix of Control--Jeff Halper--Middle East Online Report--A MUST READ ARTICLE
"Now, at this critical juncture, as the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian impasse disappears under the weight of Israeli settlements, there is a great imponderable: Is President Barack Obama genuinely serious about reaching such a solution or is he merely going through the motions familiar from previous administrations...Obama’s only hope of breaking through the wall of Israeli and Democratic Party resistance is to articulate an approach to peace based on clear and accepted principles anchored in human rights and justice and then framed in terms of US interests. " Click here to read.
 

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: A Great New Map Resource

Stephen Sizer


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CPWJ Spring 2010   Speakers Series

Ben White
March 1,2, 4

A 2005 graduate of Cambridge University, Ben White co-organized the “Just Peace 60 Joint Declaration by Christian Leaders on Israel’s 60th Anniversary”. His book, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide is described by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “A very strong and clear voice that does not shun from exposing in full, and in a most accessible manner, the essence of Zionism and Israeli policies in Palestine.”

Anna Baltzer
April 9-15

Anna Baltzer is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, a former Fulbright scholar, and granddaughter of Holocaust refugees. Baltzer has appeared on television more than 100 times, including an appearance on The Jon Stewart Show, and has lectured extensively at universities, schools, churches, mosques, and synagogues with her acclaimed presentation, "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos." She has published a booked entitled Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.

Mark Braverman
May 14-17

Grandson of a fifth generation Palestinian Jew, Braverman was raised in the United States and reared in the Jewish tradition, studying Bible, Hebrew literature, and Jewish history. Transformed by a 2006 visit to the Holy Land, Braverman has since his return devoted himself full time to writing and speaking about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land and is a cofounder and Executive Director of Friends of Tent of Nations North America.

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The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer
Stephen Walt
London Review of Books

For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries was based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the US provides.

 

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions.

"The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this assault, have reopened the question." Click here for article

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