The following is a brief listing of helpful Internet resources for more information on current events in Palestine/ Israel, especially highlighting organizations that are working to enable peace there:

Organizations based in the Middle East:

• Applied Research Institute — Jerusalem, a source of demographic, political, environmental maps and statistics: www.arij.org
• Bat Shalom, a feminist peace organization of Israeli women: www.batshalom.org
• Coalition of Women for a Just Peace: www.geocities.com/EndTheOccupation/
• Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace organization with Jewish & Arab members: www.gush-shalom.org
• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: www.israel.org
• The Middle East Council of Churches: www.mecchurches.org
• Palestinian National Authority: www.pna.org
• The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights & the Environment (LAW): www.lawsociety.org
• Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center: www.sabeel.org
• The Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People: www.rapprochement.org
• Yesh Gvul, an Israeli peace group that supports soldiers who refuse repressive or aggressive assignments: www.yesh-gvul.org

News Sources:

• Electronic Intifada, "a resource for countering myth, distortion and spin from the Israeli media war machine": www.electronicintifada.net
• Kolisrael.com, a website that provides access to a broad collection of media from Israel/Palestine in both Hebrew and English: www.kolisrael.com
• Middle East Realities, an alternative media source: www.middleeast.org
• The Other Israel, a bi-monthly magazine published by the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: other_israel.tripod.com

U.S. Based Organizations:

• Churches for Middle East Peace: www.cmep.org
• Embassy of Israel to the United States: www.israelemb.org
• Foundation for Middle East Peace: www.fmep.org
• Jewish Unity for a Just Peace, an international gathering of grassroots Jewish activists committed to ending the Occupation: www.junity.org
• Not In My Name, a network of American Jews critical of the policies of the State of Israel: www.nimn.org