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‘Labour for Palestine' Responds to US Anti-Boycott Statement In July 2007, a group of labour leaders from the US issued a statement opposing the growing international campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.... While the US statement can in no way be seen as representative of grassroots sentiment within the North American trade union movement, as labour activists involved in a variety of Canadian UK charity targets Israel War On Want: Israel's disregard for human rights is one of gravest injustices in century August 23, 2007 London Review of Books - The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam The author of this article, Henry Siegman, the director of the US/ Middle East Project, served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1994 to 2006, and was head of the American Jewish Congress from 1978 to 1994. The Middle East peace process may well be the most spectacular deception in modern diplomatic history. Since the failed Camp David summit of 2000, and actually well before it, Israel's interest in a peace process – other than for the purpose of obtaining Palestinian and international acceptance of the status quo – has been a fiction that has served primarily to provide cover for its systematic confiscation of Palestinian land and an occupation whose goal, according to the former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, is ‘to sear deep into the consciousness of Palestinians that they are a defeated people'. How can I describe the effects of the government workers going on strike, including those from the municipalities and waste management, as Gaza's trash has not been picked up for the past two weeks and how flies, cockroaches and rats run around in our streets and homes? We have to keep everything refrigerated, including sugar, because of the rats. Gaza has even run out of rat poison of all things. August 17, 2007 Torstar - Queen's principal condemns boycott of Israeli universities SPHR - McMaster Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Calls Out for Support of Boycotting Israel August 12, 2007 Today the Occupation forces have confirmed that they are preparing to evacuate the villages of al-Hadidiya and Humsa in the Jordan Valley, if necessary by force. NOTE: The Jordan Valley is the part of the West Bank and is situated between Jordan and the remainder of the West Bank, NOT between the West Bank and Israel. [View MAP] Israel claims that the occupation is necessary for self defence but this is clearly land theft. Israeli settlers use terror tactics against the Palestinian inhabitants of the valley with impunity. Read more from the Israeli paper Haaretz. August 8, 2007 Torstar - Hebron Settlers Evicted Jews illegally occupying West Bank houses decry `crime against justice' and vow to return A relatively fierce confrontation served both the settlers and the government, creating heroes among the settlers and allowing the government to show to the world that dismantling the nearly 80,000 settlers who live beyond the separation barrier will not be an easy task. MUST READ! THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS A WAKE UP CALL FOR ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THAT THE SHOW OF SUPPORT BY THE US FOR ABBAS COULD BE A STEP IN THE DIRECTION OF PEACE IN THE M-E. Asia Times - Abbas staring at oblivion ...Abbas will fail to solidify his position as president of the Palestinian Authority; the US program to support him will fail; there will be no international conference; and, within the next 60-90 days - and almost certainly by the end of the year - Abbas and his colleagues will either be forced into exile or will take steps to reconstitute the national-unity government that they have spent the past 60 days destroying. And here's why. [Related Story - Mahmoud Abbas' war against the Palestinian people ] August 1, 2007 Montreal Gazette - B'nai Brith is too quick to brand people as anti-Israel But it's also troubling to see B'nai Brith act in a way that can undermine high-profile people's reputations by making an unfounded case against those it says are anti-Israel. Others have expressed views that B'nai Brith has labelled as anti-Semitic, xenophobic, intolerant, and so on. Anyone who has read Coulon's columns, whether they agree with him or not, would need a very fertile imagination to brand his opinions as anti-Israel. (Background article)
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