Category Archives: Gaza Strip

How Not to Win Friends and Influence People: ignore them and talk about yourself

Posted on July 8, 2015 by gwpj

In April of this year, Rabbi Alissa Wise of Jewish Voice for Peace gave a talk at a Christian pro-Palestine conference, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), held in Vancouver, BC. FOSNA’s goals are (1) to promote awareness and understanding of … Continue reading →

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The Butcher of Tel Aviv

Posted on August 25, 2014 by gwpj

      Photo on the right of bombed out home in Rafa, Gaza, dated Aug. 21, 2014, is by Wissam Nassar / The New York Times. The other day on Facebook I ran across a post calling Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu … Continue reading →

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Are The Israelis Serious? That depends, and The Time May Be Now

Posted on July 12, 2014 by gwpj

  “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” —Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) In a speech to the UN General Assembly on November 29, 2012, Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron … Continue reading →

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Letters from Palestine, a review

Posted on July 1, 2014 by gwpj

Kenneth Ring, PhD and Ghassan Abdullah, editors: Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of Nonviolence. Wheatmark, Tucson, Arizona, 2010. For Palestinians, 1948 was a catastrophe. When Israel was born, between 700,000 and … Continue reading →

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Gaza is already unliveable and Israel is making it worse, by Rana Alshami

Posted on June 17, 2014 by gwpj

This article, by young Gaza resident Rana Alshami, is published in Richard Forer’s blog, at http://www.richardforer.com/2014/06/gaza-is-already-unlivable-and-israel-is-making-it-even-worse/   Please read and pass it on to others. The situation in Gaza is ghastly, sadistic, and urgently in need of intervention by the international community. … Continue reading →

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