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Needed: A new cognitive road map for peace

George E. Irani and Laurie King 6 July 2003

“Perusing the Middle East map today, we find a region strewn with populations traumatized by decades, if not centuries, of suffering. Unless they are helped in overcoming their traumas, all talk of peace that does not begin with a search for justice and an honest acknowledgement of past wrongs is a waste of time.” Political scientist George E. Irani and EI co-founder Laurie King-Irani emphasize the need for a moral and legal basis for peace-making in the Middle East in the pages of Beirut’s Daily Star. 

PCATI called on Israeli Minister of the Interior to stop deporting peace and human rights activists

29 June 2003

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) through its attorney, Gaby Lasky, yesterday, June 29, called on Minister of the Interior, Abraham Poraz, demanding that he stop deporting peace and human rights activists who come to provide humanitarian aid in Israel and the Occupied Territories. 

A whole tree of "rotten apples"

29 June 2003

Today, the press reported another case of abuse by Israeli security forces – this time, it was the maltreatment of Palestinians by border police officers and IDF soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint. This comes only one day after the Commander of the Border Police adopted the recommendations of a committee that investigated the unit in Hebron that was responsible for a series of incidents of violence, including the death of ‘Imran Abu Hamdiya. 

Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights 3 July 2003

This week Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians. Israeli forces invaded a number of towns and villages and demolished 15 Palestinian homes in al-Mughraqa and Beit Hanoun. Israeli forces razed agricultural lands in the northern Gaza Strip and continued indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian residential areas. Israeli forces continued their arbitrary arrest campaigns and continued its tight siege on Palestinian communities in the West Bank. 

Government retaliates against BBC, accuses it of demonizing Israel

3 July 2003


Reporters Without Borders today condemned the Israeli government for announcing on 1 July that is cutting all links with the BBC, Britain’s state-owned TV and radio broadcaster, on the grounds that it “systematically demonizes” Israel and carries reports “verging on antisemitism.” Describing the accusations against the BBC as “disgraceful and pathetic,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard said the Israeli government “has trouble accepting the editorial freedom of certain news media when it doesn’t serve its interests.” 

Unacceptable inferences about ISM in Associated Press article

Nigel Parry 26 June 2003

Following a 26 June 2003 Associated Press article “Israelis Exonerated in Activist’s Death”, which would have been more honestly titled “Israel exonerates itself in activist’s death,” EI’s Nigel Parry wrote to AP International Editor Sally Jacobsen to protest the writer’s unjustifiable linking of the International Solidarity Movement with terrorism.