"If we cannot find ways of peace and understanding, if the only way of establishing the Jewish National Home is upon the bayonets of some Empire, our whole enterprise is not worthwhile, and it is better that the Eternal People that has outlived many a mighty empire should possess its soul in patience... "
– Judah Magnes, Chancellor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1929
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International Solidarity Movement- Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and International activists working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation.

Middle East Children's Alliance- NGO working for peace and justice in the Middle East; focusing on Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Iraq.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz called for "closer cooperation" between the United States and Israel as the Bush administration's plans to rebuild the nations of the Middle East proceed.

"As the unilateral actions of the United States further alienate it from the world community," Wolfowitz said, "we will need to draw on the experience of Israel, which has withstood the world's condemnation for many decades."

"Just as Israel has ignored over 60 UN resolutions concerning its policies in the occupied territories, the United States will need to ignore the inevitable backlash its aggressive military actions will engender."

As an example of the new Israeli-US cooperation, Wolfowitz said that US troops would soon be "embedded" with Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank and Gaza, to train them for the challenges of policing an occupied Iraq.

"Bulldozing residential areas, using civilians as human shields, shooting children before they grow up to become terrorists-- these are all new to the United States armed forces," Wolfowitz pointed out.

"The actions of the Israeli state have ensured that their war on terror will never end," Wolfowitz concluded. "There is no better model for the role that the United States has now embraced on the world stage."

 

Background

Palestine's Tell-Tale Heart
by Omar Barghouti

The bi-national solution- "The
attempt to achieve Jewish sovereignty that is fenced in and insular has to be abandoned. We will have to come to terms with the fact that we will live here as a minority."

The Wall- (Israel Shamir)
"Sharon's Wall, this unmitigated disaster, provides a rare opportunity to observe the true nature of the Jewish State, and to call for its dismantling. Not the Wall, silly! The Jewish State."

The myth of the 97% offer to Arafat at Camp David

It is one of the great civilizing tasks before the Jewish people to enter the promised land, not in the Joshua way, but bringing peace and culture, hard work and sacrifice and love, and a determination to do nothing that cannot be justified before the conscience of the world."

– Judah Magnes, Chancellor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1929