Canadian Boat to Gaza Project http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/donations.aspx Dear Friend of the Canadian Boat to Gaza Project,     What if you could bring real tidings of comfort and joy to the people of Palestine? And what if you could do it with the click of a button?     The Palestinians of Gaza are suffering through the fourth year of a blockade, which violates international law because it inflicts collective punishment on a civilian population, as expressly forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Convention. The Canadian government however ...

November 30, 2010 Israel’s measures to 'ease’ the illegal blockade of Gaza in the face of significant international pressure have done little to change the plight of Gaza’s civilians, says a report published today by an international coalition of development, human rights and peace-building organisations. They are calling for renewed international action to ensure an immediate, unconditional and complete lifting of the blockade.     This impressive coalition consists of: Amnesty International UK, Broederlijk Delen, Cafod, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Christian Aid, Church ...

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, deliberate bombardment of Vietnamese civilians – a citizens' tribunal acting where the international community had failed. It is in that ...

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 response…“duh”…is that all Israeli governments are unwaveringly determined to maintain complete control of Palestine/Israel from the ...