In 1994 Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty. The treaty normalized relations between the two countries and resolved territorial disputes. There are some 2.7 million Palestinians living in Jordan, including some 1.5 million "refugees", between 60-80% of the population in a country formed out o...
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Palestine - Page 7
Gaza, the war against children
THIS is a war against children being conducted by adults on both sides of the conflict. Over the weekend, we heard of a BBC reporter in Gaza whose 11 month old baby child was killed by incoming IDF fire. A baby injured in Kiryat Malachi, where three people were killed after Palestinian militants...
Cape Town World Music Festival Boycott
The Cape Town World Music Festival (CWM Festival) has begun in the face of a call to boycott the festival. The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) has released a statement saying "We have recently learned that the Cape Town World Music Festival has crossed and violated the internatio...
Toy Wars: The Reggies Boycott
THERE are a number of things which need to be said in regard to the recent action against Reggies, a Jewish-owned business operating in South Africa. Firstly it would appear that children are now being used as political pawns in a war being conducted by adults. Secondly, a boycott of Jewish Toys...
Is Israel Apartheid a too simplistic analogy?
The Apartheid analogy is useful in describing what is occurring in Israel today. One cannot remain silent when pictures of Arab children massacred by the IDF find historical resonance in similar pictures taken during our own struggle. The tragic portrait of Hector Peterson is but one example. Unf...
DIY Middle East Peace Plan
This is my current Middle East Peace Plan. Show me yours? FLAGS Flag One Flag Two MAPS SEE http://davidrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/israel-is-a-three-state-solution-possible/