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1)"The Disengagement from Gaza".
http://www.pazahora.org/GazaEnglish.htm
An eyewitness account by the 'Paz Ahora- Peace Now' activists in Palestine.
(Spanish version, 'clic' here).
News Piece from the NGO "Peace Now".
For more information please contact us at :++ 34 - 629053731
Madrid.  August 2005.

     
The Paz Ahora (Peace Now) delegation arrived from Palestine on 16th
August 2005, into Barajas airport. It had accompanied the young participants
of the programme 'Holidays for Peace', who spent a month in Extremadura and
the Comunidad de Madrid, in their return to Palestine. The presence of Peace
Now in the Occupied Territories took place at the same time than the start
of the disengagement of all the colonies from Gaza and four colonies from
the North of the West Bank.
Read the “News Piece from Paz Ahora” in:
http://www.pazahora.org/GazaEnglish.htm

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2) Barenboim's orchestra plays for peace in Ramallah

Charlotte Higgins in Ramallah
Monday August 22, 2005
The Guardian

To enter Ramallah, each musician was issued with a diplomatic passport by the Spanish government.
B
ut, standing beneath the West Bank barrier on Saturday at Ramallah's Qalandiya checkpoint, he praised the governments involved.

One could forgive the players for being a little distracted: the concert hall in which they were rehearsing was the Cultural Palace in Ramallah, and the ensemble the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - the youth orchestra founded in 1998 by Barenboim and his close friend, the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said, consisting of musicians from Israel and Arab countries.
Read the article in :
http://www.pazahora.org/Barenboim.htm

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3) THE SMOKESCREEN OF THE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT:
A FACT SHEET

 

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT (I.S.M.)

PALESTINE  August 19th, 2005 

GAZA DISENGAGEMENT INTENDED TO FREEZE PEACE PROCESS:

Read the article in :

http://www.pazahora.org/ISM.htm
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4) Make sure'Gaza first'is not 'Gaza last'
By Mustafa Barghouthi

(Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, was a candidate in the Palestinian presidential elections in January 2005 ).
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2005
RAMALLAH, West Bank
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Today we and all who have stood with us in our struggle for peace and freedom celebrate the removal of illegal settlements from Gaza. But we must remain vigilant in order to harness the momentum of this process and take it to its logical conclusion - a sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
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http://www.pazahora.org/Barghouthi.htm

 

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   Turkey :
5) Istanbul Initiative for Solidarity with Mehmet Tarhan Historical punishment for Mehmet Tarhan.
Conscientious Objector (CO) Mehmet Tarhan, whose trial has been going on for over 4,5 months already by the Military Court of Justice, has been imprisoned to a historical punishment. In the court hearing that joined two seperate claims that are namely "Insubordination before command" and "Insubordination before command for trying to escape from military service" pursuant Art. 88 of the Turkish Penal Military Code, Mehmet Tarhan was sentenced to a four (4) years of jail, 2 years from each claim.
Read the article in :
http://www.pazahora.org/turquia.htm