Preston socialist councillor Michael Lavalette is currently visiting Palestine to offer solidarity to people under occupation. He is writing a blog while he is there that details his experiences that you can access at the Preston Respect website or at » www.blogstoday.co.uk/ BlogHome.aspx?username=MichaelLavalette
A proposed new history GCSE syllabus could force students to accept the government’s point of view on contentious issues such as terrorism and the Middle East conflict.
The lebanese peace deal, negotiated in Doha, Qatar, last week, has cleared the way for Michel Suleiman, the head of the army, to become president of Lebanon.
Seemingly unabashed by his disaster in Lebanon, George Bush sauntered around the Egyptian resort of Sharm el‑Sheikh for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East demanding that Arab countries "mend their ways".
As Israeli forces were pounding Lebanon in the summer of 2006, nine anti-war activists in Northern Ireland occupied the offices of arms company Raytheon Systems Limited – the UK subsidiary of the US company Raytheon.
‘We were used as human shields’
Sixty years after the Nakba, Palestinians are still suffering. Millions of us are still refugees – living in camps and facing malnutrition and persecution by Israelis and by the Arab regimes.
