Month: June 2007

Got summer travel plans?

You might want to consider a new Global Peace Index released by the Economic Intelligence Unit in which it ranked the peacefulness of 121 countries and gave them index points. The results – if you follow the news – are relatively obvious: Norway came out on top, followed by New Zealand (2), Denmark (3), Ireland …

Remembering the Naksa

I’ll take the words out of a dear friend’s mouth: This June 5th marks the fortieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Four decades of control maintained by force of arms have enabled Israel to impose its will on the occupied territories and to remake them in its …