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For Immediate Release Around 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries will sail to Gaza during the sixty-year anniversary of the Nakba – the forcible expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their lands to create Israel – to … Continue reading →

By Bassam Aramin Translated from Arabic by Miriam Asnes My son Arab is 14, just past the age that his Jewish Israeli peers are celebrating their bar mitzvahs. This ceremony in Jewish culture is a rite of passage that marks … Continue reading →

Plan Colombia and Beyond 16 July 2008 Congratulations are due to the group of Colombian non-governmental organizations that published a report last week on an April 2008 mission to the department of Putumayo in southern Colombia. The report [PDF available … Continue reading →

by Janet Redman, Institute for Policy Studies, 11 July 2008 The World Bank’s new Climate Investment Funds will do nothing to help the climate; they’ll just give the bank more clout. President Bush and other leaders of the industrialized world … Continue reading →

by Bassam Aramin, co-founder of the movement “Combatants for Peace” translation by Mimi Asnes Honorable General Ehud Barak, you don’t know me personally. I am a seeker of peace, and I struggle with all my strength and ability for the … Continue reading →