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Tag Archives: Israel
Video: Rami Levy Supermarkets in the West Bank: Promoting Peace or Normalising the Occupation?
This is a guest blog post by former Programme Assistant Hannah Slater. QCEA is pleased to present a new short-film looking at the role of the Rami Levy supermarkets in the West Bank. You can watch the video below, and … Continue reading
Posted in Peace
Tagged Illegal Settlements, Israel, Middle East, OPTs, palestinians and israelis, Politics, Settlements, supermarket shoppers
A Taste of the Middle East: Cuisine, Culture and Conflict
This is a guest blog post by Martina Weitsch. How can we talk about the Middle East today? On 8 November incidents took place in Gaza that led to the most recent outbreak of violence; on 9 November 32 Quakers and … Continue reading
‘Trading Away Peace’ – EU can do more to stop expansion of illegal settlements
The European Union (EU) imports fifteen times more from Israel’s illegal settlements than it does from Palestinians themselves within the West Bank. This was revealed in a report released last week by a coalition of European NGOs, including the Quaker … Continue reading
EU upgrading relations with Israel by the back door – part 2
On 24 July we reported on this blog that the European Union had apparently agreed to enhance the EU – Israel relationship with what we referred to as ‘a whole raft of measures all of which are considered technical and … Continue reading
EU upgrading relations with Israel by the back door – a blow to justice
When the Foreign Affairs Council issued its conclusions on the Middle East on 14 May 2012 it spelled out its concern that the two-state-solution (which is one of the key cornerstones of EU policy with regard to Israel and Palestine) … Continue reading
Children in Military Custody in Israel – our responsibility?
Defence for Children International – Palestine Section has long been monitoring the situation of Palestinian Children detained by the Israeli Authorities. Their statistics make grim reading but are also a source of reliable information about what is going on. There … Continue reading
Cyprus: rising tensions as gas bids gain a further international dimension
Along with the newly incumbent Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union, Cyprus is also coping with the impacts of a second round of licensing (February – April 2012) for the gas discovered in its Exclusive Economic Zone … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Sustainable Energy Security
Tagged Cyprus, Energy Savings, gas, Israel, security of energy supply
On the occasion of World Water Day – a thought-provoking event in the European Parliament
Alexandra Thein, MEP from the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and Margarete Auken, MEP from the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance co-hosted the screening of a film: Our water, their water made by French film … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Justice, Peace
Tagged inequality, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Sustainability, Water, Water scarcity, World Water Day 2012
Action needed to follow words
What the European Union says Since her appointment in December 2009, Catherine Ashton, as High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, has made a large number of statements on a broad range of foreign policy issues. A substantial … Continue reading
Posted in Peace
Tagged Ashton, European Union (EU), Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Settlements
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Cyprus: struggling along, or about to hit the gas?
Cyprus has had a difficult history over the last century, a legacy it has carried into this one. However, its recent natural gas find in the Levant basin throws potential good fortune into a much suffering economy. Unfortunately for Cyprus, … Continue reading
