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Friday, January 05, 2007


News for 01-04-07

01-04-07 - Palestinian security officer killed A senior Palestinian security officer was killed in an attack Thursday just moments after pleading for help on the phone with a television station: "They are targeting the house, children are dying, they are bleeding."


01-04-07 - 10 Palestinians killed in raid, clashes In the Ramallah raid, four Palestinians, all civilians, were killed and 20 wounded. Abbas said in a harshly worded statement that Israel's peace promises rang hollow in light of the raid and demanded $5 million in compensation for the damage to shops and cars in Ramallah.


01-04-07 - Three Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza Three Palestinian farmers have been wounded by Israeli fire in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza near the border with the Jewish state.


01-04-07 - Abbas and Haniyeh agree to defuse tensions in Gaza


01-04-07 - Farmers facing Israel confiscating 19 out of 22,000 dunams of land & a fatwa against winery


01-04-07 - Abbas, Haneya likely to meet as senior security official killed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is likely to meet Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas in Gaza city tonight following the killing of almost a dozen Palestinians in two days of factional fighting.


01-04-07 - The Right to Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Israel is arbitrarily turning away foreign nationals at Israeli ports of entry, which are the only way to reach the oPt, causing unjustified hardships: families are being separated, investors are exiting the country, educators are unable to reach their schools and universities, students' education is being disrupted, and elderly are being left without caretakers


01-04-07 - Hamas says it?s ready to swap a video of Shalit for the release of detainees


01-04-07 - Israeli West Bank incursion hampers peace efforts: Egypt


01-04-07 - Israeli Experts Say Middle East Was Safer With Saddam in Iraq "When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos," Diskin said, unaware that the meeting was secretly recorded. "I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam." The tape was later broadcast on Israeli television. Be careful what you wish for next time.


01-04-07 - Abducted P.A deputy minister of health released


01-04-07 - Olmert 'wants coalition partner to quit defence post' Channel 2 and Israel TV said that sources in the prime minister's office told them Mr Peretz would be asked to resign and take another cabinet position, and would be fired if he refused.


01-04-07 - WITNESS: Gaza, where tragedy and news are never far away


01-04-07 - Exclusive: Iran War "In 2 Years" ** CIA specialist on Iran Reuel Marc Gerecht said there had been a "tidal shift" of opinion towards military action, especially in Israel.


01-04-07 - Netanyahu: Pensions cut ? Arabs' birth rate declined In his speech, Netanyahu referred to the cuts in child pensions, saying that since they were implemented "two positive things happened: Members of the haredi public seriously joined the workforce. And on the national level, the unexpected result was the demographic effect on the non-Jewish public, where there was a dramatic drop in the birth rate."


01-04-07 - Mubarak and Olmert meet for talks


01-04-07 - Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from a village near Bethlehem


01-04-07 - Gaza's 'pope' steers his tiny flock through turbulent times


01-04-07 - Israel FM calls for dialogue with 'moderate Palestinians'


01-04-07 - Photographer's release urged Palestinian journalists protested yesterday to demand the release of AFP photographer Jaime Razuri, four days after he was kidnapped in Gaza and with still no word on his whereabouts, state of health or indication of who was behind the abduction.


01-04-07 - Palestinian prime minister, cutting short Arab tour, en route back to Gaza


01-04-07 - Christians Suffer With Muslims, Says Gaza Priest "We do not suffer from the Muslims...We suffer with them," a Gaza priest has said.


01-04-07 - Israeli forces abducts five Palestinian men from a village near Hebron


01-04-07 - 'My crime was to protest at Israeli assassinations' She is unbowed by her experience. "I learnt about the nature of Shin Bet, how they terrorise us, both the Israelis and Palestinians. I learnt about the nature of the government, how they do not want us to see what is going on in our name," she said.


01-04-07 - Why an academic boycott of Israel is necessary


01-04-07 - Suspect arrested in store slaying A Palestinian immigrant, Ayoub Abdelhamid came to the United States in 1976 to escape the Israeli occupation.



01-04-07 - How Hillary became New York Senator She knew that New York's Orthodox and chasidic communities would be a hard sell, as they were expressing their personal dislike for her and her positions, particularly regarding Israel. She needed to show she could win some support in Orthodox circles.



01-04-07 - Report: Guantanamo detainee draped in Israel flag


01-04-07 - Thirty Days Against Borders - Children of Nablus against the Occupation


01-04-07 - A political legacy under siege Sharon had suffered a minor stroke two weeks previously, so it was decided that he should be taken by ambulance to hospital in Jerusalem. At some point on the hour-long journey, he suffered a huge brain haemorrhage and lapsed into a coma, which has endured until now.




01-04-07 - Israeli warplanes monitor Lebanese-Syrian borders Despite a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14, the Jewish state has continued to carry out flights over Lebanese territory, maintaining they were vital to gather intelligence on alleged arms smuggling to Hezbollah.


01-04-07 - Street names a dividing line for Israeli town After Ramla was captured by Israeli forces in July 1948, most of the Arab residents who had not fled were expelled. Israeli authorities later settled Jewish immigrants in the empty homes, naming streets after prominent Zionist and Jewish personalities


01-04-07 - Protests possible at high school "To me, the First Amendment isn't an issue. The issue here is extremist hate groups," she said. Now the Wheels of Justice tour is an 'extremist hate group'. Mmm k.


01-04-07 - Wheels of Justice offers extremism, not education Unbelievable.


01-04-07 - Israeli army abducts a Palestinian man and his son in Tubass city The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Tubass on Thursday morning and abducted a man and his son


01-04-07 - Jewish groups studying impact of N.Y. governor's axe to junkets Spitzer on Monday banned members of his administration from accepting any gift - including support-building missions to Israel - that might permit the inference of being intended "to influence the individual in the performance of official business."


01-04-07 - Defense rests after hearing from torture expert at U.S. Hamas trial Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified that she witnessed part of Salah's 54-day interrogation at a high-security prison in Ramallah. She said he seemed to be in good spirits. Salah attorneys say Miller saw only a small fraction of what went on and was easily fooled.



01-04-07 - Mubarak hints: We?ll develop nukes


01-04-07 - Hezbollah detainees in Israel seek POW status


01-04-07 - Fresh from the horse's ass You know who. If it's something the Israeli Foreign Ministry needs (to further their propaganda), then our favorite 'reporter' will just so happen upon some 'Palestinians' who can give him exactly what he needs.


01-04-07 - The Israeli occupation Unsurprisingly, the Ha?aretz editorial affirms, as does the Iraq Study Group, the Israel-Palestine crisis must be resolved to prevent "further radicalization of the Middle East." Israeli security can never be built on the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.


01-04-07 - PBS documentary explores the ugliness of anti-Semitism While assiduously neutral in its presentation, "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century? is "biased" against those that spread Jew hatred, and is unavoidably slanted toward Jewish and Israeli victims of prejudice. Sounds to me like this presentation is a cherry-picked representation that serves the state of Israel - a PR move (under the guise of anti-anti-Semitism) to vilify Arabs and exonerate Israel - which is being facilitated by PBS.


01-04-07 - Anti-Semites, White Supremacists Exploit Jimmy Carter's Book for Propaganda Value The ADL is pulling out the big guns now - playing the anti-Semite card (much like that camp played the David Duke card with regard to the March report by Mearsheimer and Walt). They are reaching for straws now. Lest we forget - the ADL was found liable for DEFAMATION by wrongfully branding a Denver couple anti-Semitic.


01-04-07 - Tackling Terror the Priority for Penn State Activists Pro-Israeli propaganda on campus. Note the efforts by that camp to conflate anti-Israelism, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism.

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