Attached is the first newsletter of the year with details of decisions and actions taken at our last meeting and some good news stories.  As violence in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank escalates there is a feature on Jewish Voice for Peace, a US organisation, " dedicated to supporting and leading winnable campaigns to change US policy, shift US discourse and even the playing field in order to create the political conditions that will allow Israelis and Palestinians to achieve a just and lasting peace". (taken from www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org)