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Two Posts from the One Voice Movement

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

OneVoice Israel speaks to the extremes of Israeli society
By Tal Harris
On January 22, OneVoice Israel brought 15 of its members from Tel Aviv to meet with 30 settlers in the illegal settlement of Negohot, situated in the hills south of Hebron. Organizations in Israel seeking an end to the conflict tend to operate in the […]

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OneVoice makes itself heard for peace

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

With prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deadlocked, it is worth taking notice of the OneVoice movement: a charity aiming to reinvigorate and eventually resolve the long-standing Middle-East conflict. On November 17th, as part of a UK Campus tour, OneVoice held a presentation in University London Union building to promote its aims of “building bridges” between […]

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OneVoice makes itself heard for peace

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Elcid Asaei, www.demotix.com
With prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deadlocked, it is worth taking notice of the OneVoice movement: a charity aiming to reinvigorate and eventually resolve the long-standing Middle-East conflict. On November 17th, as part of a UK Campus tour, OneVoice held a presentation in University London Union building to promote its aims of “building […]

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One voice - Looking for hope in an endless blame game

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

As the old adage goes: ‘One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.’
Nowhere is this truer than within the stifling, often toxic context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this part of the world, one person’s Independence Day is another person’s Naqba; one person’s occupation is another person’s homecoming; and one person’s response is another person’s […]

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Grassroots group aims to break deadlock over Israeli settlements

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Rory McCarthy in Salfit
guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday 28 October 2009 09.46 GMT

 
A construction worker at an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
Photograph: Nati Shohat/EPA

One Voice hopes to open debate among Palestinians about land exchange, but finds resistance at West Bank meeting
There are few more pressing issues for the Palestinians of Salfit, living deep in the rocky hills of […]

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Promoting peace between Jewish students and Palestinian activists

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

By Marcus Dysch, November 19, 2009

Beata Krants and Dina Jaber
Trying to convince Palestinian farmers in Ramallah of the benefits of a two-state solution is no easy task. But doing the same with pro-Palestinian students in Britain can be even harder.
Members of OneVoice, the grassroots movement which works with Israelis and Palestinians to promote co-existence and […]

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John Lyndon looks at Israel & Palestine: Peace, the Public and Politicians

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Friday, September 25 2009
from compass online (http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=5604)

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In the merry-go-round world of Middle East peace, this week could be one to remember. Israel’s right wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spent the first half of the week in London, meeting with Gordon Brown and the US’ Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell.
Murmurs of a […]

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GUU security called to OneVoice meeting

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Posted by News Staff • November 30th, 2009 •
The Glasgow University Guardian
Nick Sikora
An organisation campaigning for peace in the Middle East was forced to call for GUU security as angry hecklers disrupted speakers at an event hosted by the union.
The meeting, organised by the Glasgow University chapter of OneVoice and held in the GUU Debates […]

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Two nations and one voice

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

From The Glasgow University Guardian.

Anthony Silkoff
It’s remarkable how differently you perceive the same football match, depending on which side of the stadium you sit. We see whatever fits best with our schema of the world. So when four of us visited Israel and Palestine, we had a choice — to see what we wanted, or […]

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OneVoice for a Two-State Solution

June 5th, 2009 · Comments Off

Darya Shaikh

President Obama’s speech in Cairo on Thursday did not do a number of things: it did not completely mend a history of broken trust and animosity between the west and the Muslim world; it did not erase the legacies of 9/11, Iraq, or Afghanistan; it did not set in motion a detailed […]

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