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Journey to Palestine: Report

Background and preparation - by Gustavo Marin, Karine Goasmat, Robert David

This journey, which took place from April 10 to 14, 2002, was prepared from one day to the next. It was the response to a call launched by the Brazilian Organizing Committee of the World Social Forum (WSF) to join a Brazilian delegation of parliamentarians and members of Brazilian organizations active in the WSF, which was getting ready to go to Palestine. The call was sent to approximately (...)

Chronicle of the meetings - by Gustavo Marin, Karine Goasmat, Robert David

The following description is not complete. We are eager, however, to inform you of what we were able to do in such little time. Several civil-society organizations in Palestine and also in Israel are especially active at the moment. We would like to stress that without their presence we would not have been able to do anything much. In Jerusalem, which lies just 15 km away from Ramallah, it is (...)

Proposals for further action - by Gustavo Marin, Karine Goasmat, Robert David

The least one can say is that the crisis opened by the Israeli army intervention in Ramallah and other Palestinian cities on March 29, 2002 will be long-lasting and treacherous. After the second and last meeting of Colin Powell with Yasser Arafat on Wednesday, April 17, we were able to see that diplomacy is powerless. Neither the government of George W. Bush, nor the European Union, nor the (...)

THE AUTHORS
Gustavo Marin WEB SITE Director of the Forum for a New World Governance. Programme Director at the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind. PhD in Political Economics Karine Goasmat Exemole, France Robert David WEB SITE Alternatives, Canada

SOME PICTURES
Ambulance à Ramallah Femme et enfant Infirmier et ambulance