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Tuesday, January 02, 2007


News for 01-01-07

01-01-07 - Hamas boosts Temple Mount activities The arrests came just 48 hours after police apprehended four Arab teens and a Wakf official on the Temple Mount for allegedly hanging two large pictures of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian flags on Al-Aksa Mosque.


01-01-07 - Gaza militants weigh prisoner swap deal The first phase would see the release of all Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails once Israel has received a video of Corporal Gilad Shalit reading a text of its own selection to ensure the recording is recent.


01-01-07 - Israel rejects 'excessive' Palestinian prisoner swap demand


01-01-07 - Hamas and Fatah in kidnap clashes Militants from rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have seized members of each other's group, sparking fresh violence in the Gaza Strip


01-01-07 - Agency photographer abducted in Gaza


01-01-07 - Nazareth man stabbed to death; biker injured in Jaffa shooting


01-01-07 - Top Fatah official to represent victims of Beit Hanun shelling Abu Zayda, a former minister of prisoner affairs in the Palestinian Authority, has considerable public standing both in Palestinian society and among Israelis. This might neutralize pressure on the families to transfer of the matter to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.


01-01-07 - Jordan king complains of Israeli odors Jordanian King Abdullah II has complained of bovine odors coming from the Israeli side of the frontier along the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday. Hell, I am in America and can smell the bovine odors coming out of Israel.....


01-01-07 - 'DreamBox' surveillance system from Israel protects American water supply Another major part of our homeland security is put in the hands of Israel. That should scare you.


01-01-07 - Palestinian arts academy opens The Palestinian International Arts Academy provides a place for local artists to work and study in relative peace and to spread the Palestinians' issues and grievances throughout the world, the Kuwait News Agency said.


01-01-07 - Human Rights Defenders targetted in Hebron again


01-01-07 - Israel begins promised easing of West Bank controls But Erakat said that it was not possible to say if anything had changed yet. "We observe what Israel does and we will judge what we will see with our eyes, not what we hear from them," he told AFP.



01-01-07 - Center for Refugees calling for internal dialogue to repair dismal 2006


01-01-07 - Peretz May Cave to Int´l Pressure and Nix Maskiot Housing Yoram Ettinger, former liaison for Congressional affairs in Israel's Washington
embassy, told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine, "It is only the State Department that is objecting, not the President.


01-01-07 - Israelis stake claim in valley of discord "The Jordan Valley is practically cut off to Palestinians from the rest of the West Bank," the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report released earlier this year. The policy has created a chain of small tent cities inside the restricted area, home to several hundred Palestinian farmers who live outside the valley, but who work or own land inside it. They remain in the valley, afraid that if they return to their homes in the nearby town of Tubas, they won't be allowed back to where they earn their livelihoods.
This land is being UNLAWFULLY SEIZED by Israel. What part of that does this news outfit not comprehend?


01-01-07 - Faith, Commitments and Mideast Peace by Jimmy Carter the plight of the Palestinian people represents one of the most abhorrent cases of human rights oppression on earth. Forced from their homes and land and surrounded by walls, they live under a system of mandatory segregation, with passes required to reach their jobs, schools, pastures and fields. A unique system of military justice deprives them of any legal ability to alleviate their suffering.



01-01-07 - Iran can still be stopped ** The diplomatic and PR effort: We must immediately launch an intense, international, public relations front focusing first and foremost on the US. The goal being to encourage President Bush to take up his specific promises not to allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. We must make it clear to the government, the Congress and the American public that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the US and the entire world, not only Israel.


01-01-07 - Many Israeli policies fit 'apartheid' label Is there a clearer example of apartheid than the fact that large areas of the West Bank are off limits to the Palestinian population through military closures, but access is freely given to settlers? How about the city of Hebron, where entire Palestinian neighborhoods have been locked and shuttered by the Israeli Army in order to allow the militant settlers unfettered access? Is this not apartheid? Perhaps the editors have a better name for it.



01-01-07 - Parallels between Henry VIII and the fate of Saddam It was only when he began to express support for the Palestinian cause that he became a nuisance.


01-01-07 - Lieberman eyes NATO, E.U. membership Jerusalem has previously balked at the idea of full membership in groups like NATO out of concern it would curb Israel´s military autonomy. Lieberman denied that this would be the case. "There is no doubt that membership in NATO would still afford us 100 percent freedom in terms of military activity," he said.



01-01-07 - Pope calls for Middle East peace accord in New Year's homily Marking World Peace Day, he referred to "the scene of the shepherds of Bethlehem visiting Jesus in the manger," asking: "How can you not look again at the dire situation that characterises this land where Jesus was born?"


01-01-07 - The politico-religious Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Why it is never resolved (Part I)


01-01-07 - Dor Alon to lose two-thirds of fuel sales to PA


01-01-07 - Lebanon Destroyed, Destabilised, Desperate for Change


01-01-07 - Barenboim delights thousands in his native Argentina with tango-only concert Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors sat side by side in the final hours of 2006 in a show of unity at a concert led by the renowned Argentine-born conductor Daniel Barenboim, a prominent advocate for peace in the Middle East.

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