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Stop the procedures against Gush Shalom!

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes. A letter to Ariel Sharon from Yehudit Keshet, MachsomWatch Sir. As a group of Israeli–Jewish and Palestinian women we wish to protest thecurrent wave of attacks/threatened legal procedures etc against Gush Shalom.In sending letters to senior officers who have allegedly committed, or are likely tocommit, illegal acts in times […]

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes

A letter from John Hogan Dear Sir or Madam: May I add my name to the growing list of concerned people who stronglyoppose any action by the Government of Israel to suppress Gush Shalom’scampaign against war crimes? Noam Chomsky neatly summarizes my view onthis matter. I am writing to express my support for the principled […]

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes

A letter To Ha’aretz from Miriam M. Reik, PhD to the editor: I read with heavy heart your editorial condemning Gush Shalom’s principled standwith regard to the actions of the IDF in the West Bank as doing ” grave damage. “Gush Shalom should be praised, not condemned, for its singular service to thecountry in trying […]

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes

A letter To prime minister Ariel Sharon Mr Prime Minister We, the undersigned, deeply alarmed by the continuing violence in Israel and Palestine, arestrongly supporting the peace movements advocating negotiations. We have been informed that the Israeli government asked the Israeli Attorney General toconsider possible legal procedures to be used against Gush Shalom. Gush Shalom […]

Israeli democracy and Gush Shalom

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes. A letter To A. Sharon from David Pritchard Sir, I write in of support of the Israeli peace organization GUSH SHALOM and outof a concern that your government is considering legal action to stop itslegitimate activities. Its warning of serving military officers of the dangersof following illegal orders seems […]

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes

A letter from Philip White Dear Gush Shalom, I sent the letter below to the newspaper you referred to. Being anon-Israeli outside of Israel it won’t be published of course, but it addsto their pile. If there is a specific threat to your organisation, please let me know, sothat I can alert the foreign ministers […]

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes

A letter from Anders Levermann To: editor@haaretz.co.il Dear madames and sirs, I am writing to you in reaction to your editorial on the peace movementGush Shalom. I do not agree with the opinion stated in the article anddo not see any unethical or damaging aspect of the movements actions. Onthe contrary I find the procedure […]

political purity

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes. A letter from Martin Land The following letter was sent to the editors of Haaretz this morning: Regarding ” The blindness of political purity, ” August 06, 2002 There is no small irony in the editorial position adopted byHaaretz in the matter of Gush Shalom. The peace organization hascorrelated […]

stop war crimes

Supporting Gush Shalom against war crimes. A letter from philippe cattoir Dear Sir/Madam, In view of the current campaign against peace activists of Gush-Shalom, Iwant to raise my concerns on the respect and enforcement of internationallaw by israeli institutions. The recent acceptance by israeli courts of destruction of houses belonging tofamilies of palestinian activists constitutes […]