I arrived in New York City on Friday night, three days after the disaster. I drove all day from Chicago with a friend. Read more about Thoughts from New York 

There must be a commitment on the part of the Palestinian leadership to conduct the struggle by the same principles they say they want to live by — full respect for human rights, and full freedom of speech and political participation. If the Palestinians can do this, the sacrifices so many people made in the past year will not have been in vain and they will build an unstoppable movement for freedom and justice that no Israeli government will have any excuse or power to resist. Read more about Seizing the moment 

If the situation in the occupied territories caused by Israel’s relentless aggression against the Palestinians living there were not so dreadful, the Sharon-Peres discussions would form the basis for a hilarious and twisted satire. Instead, they are a marker of how far Israel’s political class is from recognising the depth of the crisis they have created and what they need to do to end it. Read more about You cannot be serious, Mr Peres 

Your recognition that “Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been the defining reality of Palestinians’ lives there for over three decades, longer than most of the Palestinians living there have been alive,” makes plain the continued causes of this conflict. Read more about Letter to Powell: Comments on Your Speech 

The mirage of positive movement in the deadly gridlock between Israelis and Palestinians continued today, uninterrupted by reality. Read more about Plain Truths: The U.S. must commit to actions, not words 

I wonder why I am so rarely asked by the same media how I feel when Palestinians are killed. No one asked how I felt last week when five Palestinian schoolboys were killed by a bomb planted by the Israeli occupation forces in their refugee camp in Gaza. Read more about Bombs and Wreaths 

In the wake of the horrific suicide bombings in Israel over the last 48 hours hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made his address to the nation as he simultaneously increased, by yet another step, Israel’s part of the violence in the ensuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Read more about It's the Occupation 

This week, people around the world will sing “O little town of Bethlehem” and say “peace on earth, goodwill to all people.” However, in the land where Jesus was born, there is no peace and people suffer daily violence. Imagine if today, Joseph and Mary needed to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Would they manage to arrive in time for their son’s birth? Would they be allowed to pass through various checkpoints and roadblocks? Read more about From Nazareth to Bethlehem, anno 2001 

I am writing to urge you to take immediate action in response to Israel’s double-arrest and beating today of leading Palestinian human rights activist and physician Dr. Mustafa Barhgouthi. Read more about Letter to Colin Powell about the arrest of Mustafa Barhouthi 

I am sorry I am sending you best wishes for the New Year rather late. The reason is because I had to spend my New Year night in a detention cell at Tel Aviv’s Lod or Ben Gurion airport. Then I was deported to where I flew from. Read more about I had a more exciting New Year Eve!