NEWS FROM NEW YORK: TRI-STATE ACTIVISM; Activists Protest Deteriorating Palestinian Conditions on Fifth Anniversary of Oslo Accord
On the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Oslo peace accord, a coalition of groups including the Palestine Aid Society, The Committee for Democratic Palestine, and New Yorkers for a Just Middle East Peace sponsored a demonstration outside the Israeli mission to the United Nations. The purpose of the protest was to call attention to the fact that economic conditions and human rights have deteriorated for the Palestinians following the famous handshake.
Thousands of new Israeli settlements have been built in the 73 percent of the West Bank …