Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25friedman.html?_r=2 Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. “Guy walks into a bar…” No, not that one – this one: “This is the most critical year ever for Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy. It is five minutes to midnight. If we don’t…

http://oren1.wordpress.com/ Heute kann man in der Kleinen Zeitung wieder einen Völkerrechtsexperten bei der Arbeit bewundern. Wolfgang Benedek lehrt an der Uni Graz und hat sich die Arbeit angetan einen Fünf-Punkte-Katalog zuerarbeiten, in dem er beweist, warum die Israelis so unverhältnismäßig…

http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/print-archiv/printressorts/digi-artikel/?ressort=me&dig=2009%2F01%2F23%2Fa0120&cHash=7c110cfb1c Die Antiglobalisierungsbewegung täte gut daran, einmal ihr Weltbild zu überprüfen. Das zeigt Naomi Klein, die wegen des Gazakriegs zu einem Israel-Boykott aufgerufen hat Dass sich in die Kritik an Israel antisemitische Stimmen mischen, sobald die Spannung im Nahostkonflikt steigt,…

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/01/23/news/world/doc49796fa342e2e857987246.txt Jerusalem – Following President Obama’s appointment of former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine as his Middle East envoy, it may be instructive to remember the tendentiousness of George Mitchell’s 2001 report titled “The Mitchell Report on the al-Aqsa…

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090119.wcogaza20/BNStory/specialComment/ On Sunday morning, Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and halted military operations – at least temporarily. After the ceasefire began at 2 a.m. local time, Hamas fired several more rockets into Israel, then declared a…

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=5826fb18-22d8-4f6f-a588-a4b46e9aca6b The big word in Middle East politics this week is “disproportionate.” Political leaders around the world love it, and no wonder. Applied to the Israel-Hamas struggle, it quietly weakens Israel’s position and displays sympathy for the Palestinians while making…

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3657621,00.html Neither Hamas nor Gaza or the Qassams are the target of the Gaza war or the criteria for its success. The war in Gaza is over the fate of regional radicalism and the myth of the Muqawma (“resistance”.) This…

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=2828&TTL=Averting_Iran Immediately upon the end of the fighting in Gaza, the international community will enlist on behalf of an extensive rehabilitation project to enable the Palestinian population to return to their homes and get on with their civil and economic…