Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=82884# Forty years after the June 1967 war, peace between Israelis and Palestinians seems as distant as ever. Israel still refuses to accept the new Palestinian national unity government as a negotiating partner because Hamas is part of that government.…

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/24977/iran+ein+gedenktag+der+frauenbewegungAm 12. Juni 2005 versammelten sich iranische Frauen und Männer vor der Teheraner Universität, um die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte im Iran einzufordern. Diese Versammlung wurde von islamistischen Polizistinnen und Polizisten brutal zerschlagen. Der stille Kampf der Frauen geht jedoch weiter.…

Two weeks ago I took part in commencement for this year’s doctoral candidates at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The ceremony was held in the amphitheater on Mount Scopus, which faces out onto the Dead Sea and the Mountains of…

JERUSALEM, June 16 – With the two Palestinian territories increasingly isolated from each other by a week of brutal warfare between rival factions, Israel and the United States seem agreed on a policy to treat them as separate entities to…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061401738.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Does Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas know something that we don’t? For five days his presidential security forces in Gaza came under organized attack by Hamas gunmen. His compound in Gaza City was under siege. But he responded to these…

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3413202,00.html Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is apparently considering to raise next week with President Bush the possibility of deploying an international force in the Philadelphi route, between the Gaza Strip and Egyptian Sinai, which has served as the main weapons…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=3YN1R0U0TPQRHQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2007/06/15/do1502.xml Welcome to the new Islamic Republic of Hamas-stan, where every Palestinian woman is obliged to wear the veil and all traces of corrupting Western influences, from pop music to internet cafés, are strictly banned. The creation of a mini…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813036987&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Defense Minister Amir Peretz convened security chiefs for a situation assessment on Thursday afternoon, with the focus on the Hamas onslaught on Fatah forces in the Gaza Strip. Two main conclusions were reached: First, Fatah has lost in Gaza,…

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/14/international/i122135D67.DTL RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Fatah’s old demons – lack of leadership, petty quarreling, corruption – have contributed to its dismal showing in the fight against Hamas in Gaza. While the disciplined Hamas systematically built and hoarded weapons, Fatah…

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=83041&categ_id=17# Editorial The current fighting among Hamas and Fateh gunmen in Gaza has gone beyond the realm of the merely irresponsible and cruel at the Palestinian level, and has entered the realm of an existential loss for all Arabs. There…