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Thread #111301   Message #2354007
Posted By: Emma B
31-May-08 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestinian 'facts'
Subject: RE: BS: Palestinian 'facts'
Arnie I took your 'advice' and looked at the homepage of Gush shalom

There I found such articles as -

Ceasefire NOW! - joint Israeli-Palestinian call

'The escalation in and around the Gaza Strip is causing terrible suffering to people - to men, women, elderly and children, Palestinian as well as Israeli civilians

Yet the individuals caught in the fighting are all suffering - on both sides of the fighting, among both peoples. The pain of living in daily fear, of being wounded and mutilated for life, of grieving for the loss of loved ones, is the same pain - whether one's country be oppressed or oppressor, occupied or occupier, rich or poor, powerful or powerless.

The attacks on both sides of the border feed on each other and intensify each other. Palestinians in Gaza, rightly feeling themselves still living under occupation despite the Israeli 'disengagement', seek to resist occupation, but when some use launching of rockets against civilians, they manage only to provide an additional justification for tightening the siege on Gaza and the escalation of Israeli violence'


Now this doesn't seem particularly 'biased' to me it's exactly what I would hope and expect from an Isreali organization committed to attempting to find a just peace for both sides in this conflict.

The organization has also fought for the 'rights' of young Isreali men who are 'concientious objectors'