After I proposed an England v Palestine football match (Letters, February 27) I was greatly encouraged to hear that a three-week tour to the UK by an under-19 Palestinian team was being planned for September.
The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in the West Bank cannot possibly be intended for the benefit of the Palestinian people or for their internationally sanctioned struggle for human rights, freedom and equality.
ISM is currently looking for experienced international activists willing to come to Palestine for a period of at least three months. We are interested in recruiting activists to help with campaign coordination and to coordinate within the regions.
What is being pulled in Palestine is exactly what the US is trying to impose in Iraq – where the Iraqis would get next to nothing for their resources and international corporations would take nearly all.
The Holocaust can never be forgotten. An estimated 6 million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany. After World War II, the Allied victors felt compelled by guilt to grant the Zionist/Jewish wish for a national Jewish state. Because Britain then controlled Palestine, which is where the Zionists felt their state should be, Britain, along with the UN came up with a partition plan to give the Jews ...
George W. Bush has one last chance to leave behind a great legacy in the Middle East, and I want to help him. He has a year and a half left to support and encourage agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and to midwife and recognize the state of Palestine.
New Palestine, Indiana, USA - Ball State students head back to class Monday and for one junior, he will have quite a story to tell classmates. (His plans) included finding sponsors to help raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims. Ben's goal was to raise $2,000; he ended up raising $10,000.
The European Commission has said that following a meeting with Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of Palestine, it has decided to resume deliveries of fuel to the Gaza power plant on a provisional basis and that, in the longer-term, it will carry out an audit to ensure that fuel aid in Gaza remains properly managed.
Tied to a stop sign with an electrical cord and with his mouth taped shut, an East Texas dog is left for dead.
The United States risks elevating tensions and is not likely to achieve much by declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guards a "terrorist" group, a prominent Iranian dissident who co-founded the Guards said.