Last week, Hamas released all living Israelicaptives while Israel released 2000 Palestinian captives. Over 9,100 Palestinians remain in Israeli prisons under torturous and horrific conditions, and many of them are detained without charge or trial. Before the war began, there were approximately 5,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, but it doubled, reaching over 11,000… Continue reading Wave of Prayer

Two Years on…Remembering the St. Porphyrius BombingOn October 19, 2023, an Israeli airstrike struck a building within the compound of the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City, the third oldest church in the world. At the time of the attack, the church was serving as a sanctuary for hundreds of displaced Palestinian civilians… Continue reading Faith Born Anew: A Testimony from Gaza Church Bombing

This will be the cornerstone of Netanyahu’s refusal to accept a Palestinian State – Peter Since the October 7 attacks on Israel, much of the world’s attention has been focused on the war in Gaza. But another kind of conflict has also been flaring nearby.Listen to the podcast Rear Vision puts contemporary events in their… Continue reading A history of the Israeli settler movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

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Sad but true – Peter Few people have been involved in more American efforts to broker peace in the Middle East than Aaron David Miller. A veteran State Department negotiator, he worked on Arab-Israeli relations for 15 years, including the Oslo Accords under Bill Clinton, and then in the George W. Bush administration.How, then, does… Continue reading Greatest reason Gaza war ‘will not end’: Why Hamas isn’t going anywhere

by Jonathan Kuttab   “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor” (Luke… Continue reading The Prisoners

God help them – Peter Political and media commentary on the Hamas killings of October 2023 have been preoccupied with claims that these were not only the worst terrorists but that their actions were without precedent. That claim is part of a massive deceit, promulgated for over 100 years. Instead of the public being conned… Continue reading A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine

Israel will never stick to any ceasefire and will always blame the Palestinians – Peter Six Palestinians were killed and others injured by Israeli army forces in attacks in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first violation of the ceasefire that took effect on Friday. According to Al Jazeera Arabic, sources at the Ma’amedani Hospital… Continue reading First Ceasefire Violation: Six Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces in Shejaiya

Netanyahu will keep on destroying all Palestinian life in the West Bank and Gaza because Trump will allow him – so very sad – Peter In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that both Hamas and Israel had signed off on an agreement to stop the fighting, the Israeli military launched an… Continue reading Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Hell on earth is what faces them – Peter Thousands of Palestinians have returned to Gaza City in a procession of trucks, donkeys, carts and families on foot who travelled north, with the Mediterranean Sea on one side and, on the other, a wasteland of rubble and twisted metal. Many are returning to suburbs razed… Continue reading Thousands of Gazans are going home after two years of war. This is what they’re returning to