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Gush Shalom
pob 3322 Tel Aviv
Tel: 03-5590321
Fax: 03-5271108
Email: info@gush-shalom.org
Web: http://www.gush-shalom.org/

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Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc - is a peace group which speaks out with a clear voice for the Green Line ('67 border) as border of peace between Israel and Palestine, with Jerusalem as shared capital of both states, West Jerusalem capital of Israel, East Jerusalem capital of Palestine.
Gush Shalom is more politically oriented than the purely human rights organizations, but takes part in its acts of civil disobedience such as rebuilding destroyed houses. It leads the struggle against settlements with its Boycott of the Products of Settlements and supports Palestinian families who suffer from settler harassment by protests, prolongued presence or the launching of international campaigns.
It's campaign "Our Jerusalem - Capital of Two States" has been taboo-breaking, as is its call for the Boycott of Products of Settlements. Recently, it succeeded to convinve the international giant Benetton not to start business on the Barkan indistrial zone.
Gush Shalom sees itself as catalysator, alarm system which wakes up the wider peace movement, inside Israel and throughout the world.
Gush Shalom supports the Oslo process as a first step in the right direction which is still not wholly taken.

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