Invitation: The Alternative Information Center and the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People invite you to attend two events in Beit Sahour happening in parallel to the Haifa conference on the Right of Return and One Secular Democratic State (http://www.ror1state.org/awda/ ).

Location of both events at the Alternative Information Center, downtown Beit
Sahour.

Friday May 28 at 7 PM a link-in to the Haifa conference which features Ghada Karmi, Ilan Pappe, Muhammad Kana’ane and a speaker from the 67 occupied territories and Special greetings from guest delegations from five continents

Saturday 29 May, at 7:30 PM at the AIC café, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh and Nassar Ibrahim will present some ideas and lead a discussion panel on the issues of ROR and One Democratic State.

Action: Take action to stop threatened military action against Gaza freedom flotilla (ships bringing aid to Gaza). Also in the US, need to pressure the media which is engaged in a shameful blackout on this critical story. Go to New York City or Washington DC if you are in the vicinity Thursday, MAY 27:

5 PM-7:30 PM on 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue, New York

4:00 - 6:00 PM Israeli Embassy, 3514 International Drive Northwest, Washington, DC 20008

More actions here:

http://gazafreedommarch.org/cms/en/flotilla.aspx

http://witnessgaza.com/

http://www.freegaza.org/

Israel's Most Illicit Affair: A new book reveals that Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa went far deeper than previously understood. Now comes Sasha Polakow-Suransky, who is an editor at Foreign Affairs magazine, a Rhodes scholar, and an American Jew whose parents emigrated to the United States from South Africa. His singular achievement in his new book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa scheduled for publication on May 25, is to have unearthed more than 7,000 pages of heretofore secret documents from the
bowels of South Africa's Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry, and Armscor, the state defense contractor, including the secret 1975 military cooperation agreement signed by defense ministers Shimon Peres and P.W. Botha. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/../israels_most_illicit_affair

Never-ending checkpoint frustration By Rana Qumsiyeh

http://meero.worldvision.org/news_article.php?newsID=2056
<http://meero.worldvision.org/news_article.php?newsID=2056&countryID=15>
&countryID=15

The PA's disingenuous boycott campaign By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 25 May 2010

In recent weeks, the US- and Israeli-backed Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has made a show of calling on Palestinians to boycott goodsmanufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Despite the rhetoric of defiance and resistance, and exaggerated screams of anguish from Israeli settler groups, the PA effort actually appears designed to co-opt, undermine and abort the much broader Palestinian civil society campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS), and to reassure Israel of the continued docility and collaboration of its puppet regime in Ramallah. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11286.shtml

Mahmoud Abbas in defense of the boycott of settlement products but not a total boycott of Apartheid Israel: "I boycott someone who is occupying my land, this is not incitement. I would like to tell [critics of the boycott] that I will not incite against the state of Israel, neither will I demand a boycott of the state of Israel"

Activists protest Israeli ambassador of apartheid at Brandeis University.

Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/bdsbostonma/MichaelOrenSpeaksAtBrandeisCommencem
ent#5474865268350238690

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons

Israel's nuclear capabilities - 25 Oct 09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxim7cx39bc

Truly disturbing video about the Mexican gulf oil spill: requiem for the gulf Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkPGnaXsg8

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home http://www.qumsiyeh.org <http://www.qumsiyeh.org/> Professor, Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities

Chairman of the Board, Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People, http://www.pcr.ps <http://www.pcr.ps/>

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