August 28, 2007 Canaan Fair Trade is pleased to announce the first generation of Canaan Scholarship recipients. The Canaan Scholarship Award Committee has released the award recipients of the First Annual Canaan Scholarship Award. Canaan Fair Trade is a mission-based Palestinian fair trade company located in Jenin, Palestine that buys and exports agricultural goods from…
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The Israeli army is currently invading the village of Saida, in the Tulkarem district of the West Bank. According to local sources, Israeli special forces were occupying an old, abandoned Palestinian house in the center of the village last night. At least two Israeli checkpoints were setup in the morning between Saida and the neighboring…
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Four decades after the devastating war of 1967, one can only conclude that the international community and especially the United Nations Security Council, has failed Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs. Rather than try to resolve this major conflict that has undermined peace and security in the Middle East, the major powers, particularly the United States…
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Press Release: Baby Oil from Palestine Babies in the Salisbury Diocese could be baptised with fairtrade olive oil from Palestine in the coming year, it has emerged. Clergy from across Dorset and Wiltshire stocked up on the oil – which will also be used to anoint the sick and dying – at the traditional Maundy…
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by Ruth Tenne (Sunday, April 1, 2007) “…the viability of a future Palestinian economy depends significantly on its trading opportunities.” The latest report [1] of the International Development Select Committee regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories (31 January 2007) makes for very distressing reading. In its section on trade, it refers to the ongoing restrictions in…
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It is late afternoon as we drive into the mountains. We stop to sit by the roadside and watch the village down below through the long grasses, as the call to prayer rises from the village and winds its way around the curves of the surrounding mountains. The sunlight scatters in a million drops on…
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By Walid Batrawi Al-Jazeera – March 10, 2007 Nablus is the West Bank’s biggest city and the capital of its economy but as with other centres throughout the Palestinian territories, to put it mildly, times are tough. The city is known for, among other things, its soap, made from pure olive oil, but like so…
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Wednesday February 21, 2007 The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2017677,00.html On February 8, Fatah and Hamas issued the Mecca agreement. Palestinians are now working to create a national-unity government to rebuild Palestinian society, which has faced systematic destruction under Israeli occupation (Leaders, February 20). Given the international Quartet is meeting today, the British government must seize this opportunity…
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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CALLS FOR SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL The House of Commons has, with the publication of a new report on the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories, called for the international community to impose sanctions on Israel. Read more in this article by War on Want’s John Hilary http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_hilary/2007/01/mps_back_sanctions_on_israel.html Also see Stop Arming Israel at www.stoparmingisrael.org
11/02/2007 By Nir Hasson “The Palestinians’ lives under the occupation are reminiscent of the lives of Chile’s citizens under the dictatorship,” says Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who is visiting Israel, last week. “There, too, people who thought differently were considered enemies: They were imprisoned, tortured and killed. There, too, people couldn’t move from place to…
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