By David Morrison
February 2008
Since 23 January 2008, we have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a mass breakout by Palestinians from their Gaza prison, a breakout made possible by Hamas blowing up stretches of the Israeli-built border wall between Gaza and Egypt, near Rafah, and bulldozing other stretches of it.
The breakout was a reaction to Israel’s strangulation of Gaza, which had intensified in the preceding weeks with Israel’s closure of the crossings between Israel and Gaza to the passage of people and goods, on a more or less permanent basis.
But how can Israel strangle Gaza when there is supposed to be an international crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a crossing which is not controlled by Israelis?
[ePalestine] PUBLIC BRAINSTORMING to stop multinational corporations investing in illegal, Israeli settlement firms
Dear friends,
This is a PUBLIC BRAINSTORMING effort to stop multinational corporations investing in illegal, Israeli settlement firms.
Your help in thinking through the strategy on how to address this would be greatly appreciated. I specifically hope that our Israeli friends and Palestinians living in Israel will take note of this appeal given they may be privy to some of the key information to help move this effort along.