The Independent, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 They are threatened with drowning by the Egyptians and punitively taxed by Hamas. Our correspondent meets the Palestinian smugglers bringing oranges, car batteries and bottle tops to a territory under siege They are the real resistance. They are the lung through which Gaza breathes. True, missiles must pass along their subterranean tracks, Qassam rockets, too, Kalashnikov ammunition, explosives. But by far the greatest burden of the tunnellers of Gaza is the very life-blood of this besieged little pseudo-Islamic statelet: fresh meat, ...

Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) and Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) are holding a report back event on the successful trip to the occupied Gaza Strip. Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) and Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) are holding a report back event on the successful trip to the occupied Gaza Strip. The meeting will take place on Monday 1st March 2010, in the House of common from 7 to 9pm in the Committee Room 11     Various speakers who managed to enter the Gaza Strip in mid-January to assess the situation will describe ...

von Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Publizistin Peres will deutsche Juden von der Schattenseite befreien Fassungslos las ich am Samstag das Interview <http://madrasaoftime.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/im-interview-schimon-peres> mit Schimon Peres in der FAZ. Als Abonnentin dieser „liberalen“ Zeitung empfinde ich es beschämend, diesen israelischen Präsidenten so ungebremst seine Propagandalügen (neudeutsch PR) verbreiten zu lassen.   Die beiden Interviewer – davon K.D. Frankenberger extra nach Jerusalem geflogen und der Israel Korrespondent der F.A.Z. H.C. Rößler – verpassten ...

by Adam Horowitz on January 26, 2010 · The following letter is being circulated in advance of Shimon Peres’s visit to Germany to commemorate international Holocaust Remembrance Day.     January 2010   Shimon Peres Does Not Speak for Us !   We are writing this letter as Israeli citizens. Some of us are 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Holocaust survivors, and we are all activists who are pursuing peace and justice for everyone in our troubled region. We wish to express our concern regarding Germany’s Middle East policy, which is harmful and immoral. Our ...