You may be surprised to learn about some of what is happening in Gaza. Read this letter: Dear All, Onevoice movement in the Gaza Strip expanded its campaign and organized its fifth Town Hall Meeting in the North of the Gaza Strip. The Objective to introduce the Movement & gather support for the two states [...]
David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote about OneVoice on his blog.
Daniel Levy asserts (see his Point #4) that the Bush Administration is blocking negotiations that both the Syrian and Israeli Heads of State desire. He quotes Ambassador Martin Indyk (a member of our Honorary Board and a man who nobody would accuse of coming from the left) on his testimony to the House Foreign Relations [...]
The Jerusalem Post reports that Olmert is again being investigated on allegations about political fundraising activities that took place well prior to his tenure as Prime Minister. Some opposition lawmakers called on him to resign because of the investigations. Prior investigations that started with a lot of bravado have gone nowhere, as Knesset member Yoel [...]
Today Sherazad Hamit and I were in the Bay Area to discuss OneVoice’s campaign for 2008 with several of our supporters. When in San Francisco, we visited with Cissie Swig, an elegant and thoughtful leader of the Bay Area civic community (I think her family owns or used to own the famed Fairmont Hotel, and [...]
Our OneVoice team in Gaza continues to work with the local communities across Gaza – this last week in Gaza City – to build a human infrastructure of citizens committed to a two-state solution.
It sounds so crazy. With growing climate change, planet earth as we know it is on the brink of a radical transformation that could endanger the very survival of the human race, if not at best require the most painful and radical adjustments for us all. Why then would any rational human being want to [...]
OneVoice Israel just commenced an exhibit titled "Till White Smoke Emanates" urging the Israeli and Palestinian heads of state to continue negotiations non-stop till they strike an agreement (the only missing ingredient in the leaders’ commitment to "ongoing" but not "uninterrupted" negotiations, as the OneVoice Mandate urges). The "white smoke" concept is borrowed from [...]
News reports have alluded to the fuel shortage in Gaza, with complaints from Hamas officials about Israel chocking Gaza off, and most recently a retort by the Israeli government that Hamas is intentionally causing the shortage (by avoiding pick up of fuel trucks) to create political crisis. I decided to ask a couple of colleagues [...]
British Ex-Jihadists are changing course and not only renouncing terrorism, but organizing themselves to counteract it. The apt term for people who wrap themselves under the the mantle of Islam to justify inhuman acts of terror that are inconsistent with the religion’s core tenets is as pseudo-Islamic terrorists. Here is an example of people that [...]