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Wednesday, January 10, 2007


News for 01-09-07

01-09-07 - Israeli army critically injures a Palestinian youth in Gaza Samir Al Madhon, 17, was critically wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him near the borders in the eastern side of Gaza city on Tuesday afternoon


01-09-07 - Jailed Jenin legislators appeal factions to end violent clashes Abducted Palestinian Legislators from the Jenin District, imprisoned by Israel, voiced an appeal to Fateh and Hamas gunmen, engaging in armed clashes, to stop the violence and maintain national unity.


01-09-07 - Hamas militant dies of wounds sustained in political clash A Hamas militant on Tuesday died of wounds sustained in fighting last week, medical officials said, the latest death in a spate of factional violence in the Gaza Strip.


01-09-07 - Hamas accepts temporary peace deal with Israel: PLO


01-09-07 - Hamas and Fatah gunmen clash in Gaza


01-09-07 - Arab League says ready to send delegation to help end Palestinian in fighting Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Tuesday that his pan-Arab organization is ready to send a high-level delegation to the Palestinian territories to help end the infighting there.


01-09-07 - Three members of the Executive Force injured in Gaza, five abducted


01-09-07 - Settlers aim to continue settlement expansion


01-09-07 - Army: "We abducted 4110 Palestinians in 2006"


01-09-07 - Rice to visit Mideast for talks on Iraq, Israeli-Palestinian ties


01-09-07 - Peretz halts construction of fence in the desert Peretz halts construction of fence in the desert


01-09-07 - Mubarak: Palestinians will pay a heavy price


01-09-07 - Captured Israeli 'in good health'


01-09-07 - On tape: Palestinians harassed in Hebron ?cage? Tape obtained by B?Tselem shows heated argument between Palestinian family in Hebron and woman Jewish settler; quarrel just one example of suffering we endure on daily basis, head of Palestinian family tells Ynet


01-09-07 - Who Is Planning Our Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** Israel's war, says Bibi, must be sold as America's war. We are thus forewarned. A propaganda campaign, using Israeli agents and their neocon auxiliaries and sympathizers, who stampeded us into war in Iraq, is being prepared to stampede us into war on Iran.

Great article.


01-09-07 - Israel?s purging of Palestinian Christians Without Palestinian Christians confusing the picture, it will be much easier for Israel to persuade the West that the Jewish state is facing a monolithic enemy, fanatical Islam, and that the Palestinian national struggle is really both a cover for jihad and a distraction from the clash of civilisations against which Israel is the ultimate bulwark. Israel?s hands will be freed.


01-09-07 - Israeli forces continue to take Palestinians into its prison system at an alarming rate


01-09-07 - Shas MKs ask PM to reduce sentences for terror attacks against Arabs Shas ministers and MKs are asking Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to release or reduce the sentences of Jewish prisoners who carried out or attempted to carry out terror attacks against Arabs - if Palestinian prisoners "with blood on their hands" are released as part of an anticipated prisoner exchange for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.


01-09-07 - 980 Units to be Built at Har Homa Har Homa - illegal settlement


01-09-07 - Israeli army abducts seven Palestinian men from Hebron


01-09-07 - Israeli army invades down town Bethlehem, surrounds a house and abducts three brothers


01-09-07 - Palestinian housing statistics indicate major problems due to Israeli policy of home demolitions


01-09-07 - Major loophole in Democrats' ethics bill will benefit controversial lobbying groups Though tasked with authoring the legislation, Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said she disagreed with the exemption in an exclusive interview.

"I would've done it straight out," Slaughter said, noting that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Aspen Institute are exempt from many of its harshest restrictions
AIPAC, of all lobbies, will benefit from this new loophole? What a coincidence!


01-09-07 - Israeli documentary captures citizen reconciliation - and encourages more


01-09-07 - Lebanon opposition renews protest


01-09-07 - TV anchor: Arab look not appropriate for Eurovision Song Contest Michaeli, a TV anchor for Channel 9, and a former candidate for the recent Kadima party elections, made waves after stating that the selected representative should not have an Arab look.


01-09-07 - Hundreds protest group whose members attended Iran's Holocaust conference Mordechai Levy, head of the JDO, said over the loudspeaker that Weiss and other Neturei Karta members should be driven out of the community. "We know where you live. We know where you daven," he said, using the Yiddish word for "pray." "We know where you work. And we're going to get you fired from your jobs, thrown out of shuls (synagogues) and driven from Monsey. Neturei Karta are traitors to the Jews."
And the supreme irony here is - I bet the Iranians treat their Jewish brethren better than these JDO thugs treated the Neturei Karta Jews.


01-09-07 - From Dec: Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform Two of America?s most influential Jewish organizations are gearing up for their first direct confrontation with the incoming, Democratic-led Congress. The topic: Democratic proposals for congressional ethics and lobbying reform. The Israeli lobby wins again (majority of Americans lose).


01-09-07 - Build integral humanism by respect of human rights, pope tells diplomats Pope Benedict renewed his call for "a free and sovereign" Palestinian homeland, and said that Lebanon has a right to have its borders respected and Israel has a "right to live in peace in their state."


01-09-07 - Israel plans to nuke Iran **


01-09-07 - No-goodniks and the Palestinian shootout The Abrams program was initially conceived last February by a group of White House officials who wanted to shape a coherent and tough response to the Hamas electoral victory of January. These officials, the authors were told, were led by Abrams, but included national security advisers working in the office of the vice president, including prominent neo-conservatives David Wurmser and John Hannah. The policy was approved by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Neocons.


01-09-07 - Condi's Savage War on the Palestinians


01-09-07 - Christmas celebration in Jerusalem


01-09-07 - Conditional citizenship one cannot rule out the possibility that an expulsion of Arab Israelis would pass without widespread opposition - for instance, on the pretext that they had "broken faith" with their country.


01-09-07 - Palestinian female filmmakers triumph with their art


01-09-07 - Column: America's debt and Israel's occupation


01-09-07 - Support Palestine's Struggle


01-09-07 - Christian Allies Caucus vows that 'the best is yet to come' Ultimately, the group hopes to create an international network of parliamentary sister caucuses that coordinate activities in support of Israel in close communication with each other.


01-09-07 - Peres scorns Peretz's new peace plan


01-09-07 - A Middle East free of nuclear weapons


01-09-07 - JOURNALISTS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE


01-09-07 - Arab Americans seek watch-list clarity The Bush administration has dramatically expanded its "watch lists" of banned terrorist groups to include charities that allegedly fund Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that target Israel with terrorist attacks.



01-09-07 - Already fifty little "hearts for peace"? its main objective: to operate on fifty Palestinian children at the Hadassah hospital in 2006


01-09-07 - Man Bites Dog Palestine Coverage


01-09-07 - Jones: US will stand by Israel in face of Iranian threat ** He assured the audience that, "Israel's security and well being are of vital importance to the United States."


01-09-07 - CIA gets the go-ahead to take on Hizbollah The Central Intelligence Agency has been authorised to take covert action against Hizbollah as part of a secret plan by President George W. Bush to help the Lebanese government prevent the spread of Iranian influence. Senators and congressmen have been briefed on the classified "non-lethal presidential finding" that allows the CIA to provide financial and logistical support to the prime minister, Fouad Siniora. Because one and 3/4 civil wars in the region are not enough.


01-09-07 - U.S.: Indonesian UN statement on Mideast conflict 'unbalanced' Indonesia introduced a draft UN statement Tuesday to promote the momentum of the recent meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but the United States said it blamed Israel for recent incursions and was unbalanced.


01-09-07 - Correction: Iran-Holocaust-Conference In a Dec. 12 story about an Iranian-sponsored conference on the Holocaust, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a claim that Zionists have exaggerated the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.


01-09-07 - Sundance Channel Unveils Two Programming Features on Time Warner Cable On Demand in Celebration of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Wall (also known as Mur): A meditation about the social impact of the
security wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories, featuring
discussions on both sides of the barrier.


01-09-07 - Israeli official to bring news and views to Napa . Terrorists and their oil rich sponsors have deftly portrayed Palestinians as victims of Israeli "aggression" and perverted especially on college campuses, as a way of code words like apartheid, occupation, and "Zionist entity," gaining sympathy for their cause PR campaign right on cue. Note the outright BS in that article too.

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