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Palestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War |...

"While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices." For more information about peacenews.org, visit the...

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An Israeli-Palestinian confederation? Not so fast | +972

A new initiative seeks to find a new, creative way to solve the conflict. The only problem? It forgets about equality. For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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UN Chief Makes Final Official Visit to Israel, Palestinian Territories | VOA

"No solution to the conflict will be possible without the recognition that both Palestinians and Jews have an undeniable historic and religious connection to this land," Ban said. For more information...

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Ralph Nader and Omar Barghouti To be Given Gandhi Peace Award

Via a telephone press conference the group Promoting Enduring Peace announced the next winners of its Gandhi Peace Award.   It will be given jointly to Ralph Nader and Omar Barghouti at a ceremony in...

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Video: Far from the public eye, Palestinian villages are being dried out |...

Qarawat Bani Hassan, a Palestinian village in the West Bank water shortage since Israel’s national water company decided to reduce its supply. For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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Colonial Settlers | Mazin Qumsiyeh

As Jill Stein has little chance, Trump and Hillary might accelerate the demise of the U.S. empire and thus be the last of the “lesser of two-evils” charade. Meanwhile, we the people must change our...

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While U.S. promises $38 Billion to Israel over 10 years, pols fight over...

Israel and the United States have reached an agreement that will provide Israel an unprecedented amount of military aid over a decade. For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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The Women’s Boat to Gaza activists are free and undeterred | Waging Nonviolence

On their webpage, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has pledged to continue its efforts “until Gaza is free.” For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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American Weapons Are Blocking True Peace Between Israel and Palestine | The...

? Obama’s $38 billion weapons deal is the nail in the coffin for a two-state solution. For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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Thousands of women rally for Israel-Palestinian peace | YNetnews.com

Organization Women Wage Peace stage rally outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem calling on both Palestinian and Israeli leaders to forge a peace agreement; speakers included Israeli female...

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Photos from Inside a Decade of Protests in Israel and Palestine | VICE,...

A new photobook by photo-activist collective Activestills features ten years of photography documenting tension in Israel and Palestine, including protests the photographers were active in themselves....

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Basil of Al-Walaja: RIP | Mazin Qumsiyeh

On 6 March 2017, Basil Al-Araj was murdered by the Israeli army. He was 31 years old. Others will speak of his martyrdom, I will speak of his life and what he told me. Basil would have wanted it told...

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Palestinian Committee Statement on the Arrest of Omar Barghouti for ‘tax...

BNC Statement on Israel’s Ongoing Campaign to Silence Omar Barghouti & Repress the BDS Movement: "Omar is currently enduring a fourth day of interrogation." -- evidently why we haven't heard from...

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Omar Barghouti, winner of the Gandhi Peace Award, arrested in Israel on...

“I think it’s a general thing. They’re trying to smash the BDS movement in a lot of ways,” said Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace. “The president of Israel said BDS is a...

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‘The Vicious Lies Published by Israel’s Regime Against Me’| Omar Barghouti

A message from Omar Barghouti, April 1, 2017. Gandhi Peace Award honoree Barghouti was detained by Israeli authorities March 19. He was interrogated and released. For more information about...

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Palestinians Told Me, Support Us by Practicing BDS | Dan Fischer

The idea is simple, modeled after the boycotts that helped end South Africa's apartheid and America's formal segregation. Around the world, communities, campuses, and families boycott Israeli products...

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Forum: Hunger strikes, hunger deaths | Stanley Heller in the New Haven Register

The hunger strike of Local 33 at Yale makes me think about a much larger hunger strike going inside the prisons of Israel. For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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The Papers Get the Huwara Killing All Wrong | Stanley Heller

As Ha'aretz says, the shooter is not being investigated for a criminal offense and now a good portion of Israeli Jews have heard a plausible and completely wrong explanation of how and why a...

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An Illegal Demolition of the Mughrabi Quarter Started the Occupation | Jeff...

The demolition of the Mughrabi Quarter may have been the first act of Israeli Occupation, but it was merely the continuation of policy of ethnic cleansing that began twenty years before and continues...

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The challenges and strengths of Palestine’s ‘orchestra’ of civil resistance |...

Recent research argues that the diverse identities among activists in Palestine is what gives the movement its power. For more information about peacenews.org, visit the website.

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