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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
01-15-07 - Hamas arrests gunmen who stormed U.N. office in Gaza Hamas-led policemen arrested six gunmen who stormed into a United Nations office in the Gaza Strip on Monday looking for foreigners to kidnap, a spokesman for the force said.
01-15-07 - Palestinian house leveled in Jerusalem, four pending Palestinian sources in the occupied East Jerusalem reported on Monday that the Jerusalem Municipality demolished one Palestinian house in Jerusalem after claiming that it was illegally constructed; the municipality intends to demolish four more homes under the same claims.
01-15-07 - Israel's 'invisible hand' still controls Gaza, says report "The results of these controls have been devastating and have helped plunge Gaza into an economic and humanitarian crisis unprecedented in nearly four decades of occupation," says the report, seen by The Times.
01-15-07 - East Jerusalem home demolitions expected to rise in 2007 The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions issued its annual report for 2006 expressing concern that Israeli forces will destroy more of Palestinian East Jerusalem this year.
01-15-07 - Quds Brigades claims attack on Kisufim Israeli base
01-15-07 - Israel Plans Settlement on West Bank The work includes a 33-mile loop around Maaleh Adumim, now being built, that would virtually cut the West Bank in half. Land or peace? Israel chooses land again - to its own detriment.
01-15-07 - Hamas says will never recognise Israel Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, said in an interview from Gaza with Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah's al-Manar television: "Hamas will never recognise the legitimacy of the occupation (Israel)."
01-15-07 - Fatah says uncovers possible plot against leaders Palestinian security forces uncovered an extensive network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip that the Fatah faction said on Monday could have been used to assassinate its top leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas.
01-15-07 - Sneh: Law not enforced with regard to Hebron settlers In one case, Alkobi was charged with attacking Yusuf Aza, a 10-year-old boy. He told Yesh Din, a human rights organization, that Alkobi had pushed rocks into his mouth and closed his jaws forcefully on them, breaking some of his teeth.
Psychos. Here's what they do to Americans. And again. And some others. But a few of the attacks by settlers on INTERNATIONALS.
01-15-07 - Israeli Army abducts fourteen Palestinian men from several parts of the West Bank
01-15-07 - Palestinian refugees and exiles must have a say-so
01-15-07 - News in brief An Armored Corps regiment commander, whose soldiers killed four Palestinian civilians in Jenin, has been reprimanded and given a suspended prison sentence. In June 2002, he was ordered to fire shells to disperse civilians in Jenin's marketplace who were violating the army curfew. A tank opened fire at civilians, killing a 53-year-old man and three children and injuring five civilians. The brigade commander who gave the order was acquitted by a disciplinary tribunal
01-15-07 - Palestinian cemetery off-limits as Israelis say it is too close to settlement
01-15-07 - Rice: UN sanctions on Iran 'not enough'
01-15-07 - Drug kingpin to be repatriated The plea bargain was expected to be implemented within weeks. With time off for good behavior, Rosenstein could be free by 2013.
WTH is that? Assets don't get seized, and you get out in 6 years for smuggling millions of ecstacy pills into the US? Outrageous.
01-15-07 - Appointment of Arab minister on hold Majadele would be Israel?s first Arab Cabinet minister, but the move has been opposed by the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, which like Labor is a coalition partner of Olmert?s Kadima
01-15-07 - Jerusalem church leaders offer to mediate in Fatah, Hamas conflict
01-15-07 - Major investment bank issues warning on strike against Iran ** Preisdent Bush recently removed General John Abizaid as commander of US forces in the Middle East and John Negroponte as Director of National Intelligence, both of whom have said attacking Iran is not a priority or the right move at this time.
01-15-07 - Rice to seek return to road map New settlement plans by Israel violate the 'Road Map'. If Rice had any balls, she'd slap the Israelis down for embarassing her like that. She is, after all, a Republican. Won't hold my breath.
01-15-07 - Tehran largest donor in £500m Muslim pledges to Palestinians An international boycott of the Hamas-led authority imposed last year has given Iran an opportunity to increase its influence. If the US, goaded on by Israel, hadn't besieged the Palestinians for over a year by allowing Israel to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in tax customs, then the Palestinians would not have been forced into the arms of others. This must be rocket science.
01-15-07 - Row over Israeli-Arab cabinet appointment "Israel is a Jewish state and should be run according to Jewish values," Tartman said. Her party has been advocating a land swap in which some Israeli Arab villages would be transferred to the Palestinian state and civil rights would be restricted to people who show allegiance to the Jewish state.
01-15-07 - Israeli forces confiscating southern Bethlehem village, farmers demonstrate Since early this morning dozens of Palestinian farmers in southern Bethlehem's Umm Salamuna Village have tried to stave off the Israeli bulldozers that razed 270 dunams of land for the Wall.
01-15-07 - Report: Rise in sales to PA expected Manufacturers' Association of Israel estimates sales to Palestinian Authority will total USD 2.2 billion this year. Ankara Forum to meet Monday to advance Turkish initiative to establish international company to manage Erez Industrial Park
01-15-07 - U.S. set to announce plea deal with Israeli on drug charges Israel has withdrawn related charges pending here, and the parties decided that U.S. authorities would not be confiscating Rosenstein's assets, as they had requested.
01-15-07 - Israeli strategic chief proposes peace plan with Syria "We should not keep to old territorial formulas, and there is no more reason to think that the price of peace with Syria is a complete withdrawal from the Golan,"
01-15-07 - Rice says planned Mideast talks most ambitious in six years US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a planned summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders could herald the most serious Middle East peace effort in six years
01-15-07 - Ramallah municipality plants one thousand olive trees
01-15-07 - Jews, evangelicals honor Ayalon Top congressmen, including Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the U.S. House of Representatives majority leader; Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the minority leader; and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, addressed the event.
01-15-07 - Rana Shebley: Miss Palestine 2007
01-15-07 - Secret understandings reached between representatives from Israel and Syria Aronson said the idea of a park on the Golan Heights allows for the Syrian demand that Israel pull back to the June 4 border, on the one hand, while on the other hand, the park eliminates Israeli concerns that Syrians will have access to the water sources of Lake Kinneret.
01-15-07 - It's Not Torture and It Is Necessary by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
01-15-07 - Freedom Ride Against New Apartheid Travel Ban Next Friday, January 19th Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists will form a caravan of cars against the Apartheid decree prohibiting Israelis and foreign nationals from driving Palestinians inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
01-15-07 - Kenya: How About Palestine's Right to Exist
01-15-07 - School speaker policy won't end controversies common sense did not prevail in Andover when a small group of teachers ran roughshod over the administration in bringing the radical pro-Palestinian group Wheels of Justice to speak to students at the high school. Principal Peter Anderson initially - and correctly - barred the group from speaking at the school. This is evidently an editorial by the Eagle Tribune's own. Biased much?
01-15-07 - American image overhaul in PA "Palestinian people are not stupid. Americans think they can buy our sympathy with pretty pictures, but we know that the economic situation we are facing now is a direct result of them boycotting our government, and thus our people."
01-15-07 - Outside View: Iran must be stopped 'Their aim is to become a hegemony. Their aim is to drive the United States out (of the Middle East) and replace it. If they become a nuclear power it can start a nuclear arms race with Turkey and others. I don't think that the U.S. and the West can allow such a thing,' Sounds like Ayalon is talking about Israel. Read on about Ayalon and Israel's 'demographic' problem.
01-15-07 - Learning from his legacy "You admit that you want my land? That you want to take Palestine and Iraq as well?" Ahmad said, thrusting his arm forward to emphasize the point. "Why do you care about that land? You've got land from Morocco to Malaysia. We ended up with a piece that big," said Krivine, gesturing to the water bottle in Ahmad's hand.
There it is again - that faulty logic. If I unlawfully help myself to $1000 that belongs to a billionaire, do I have the moral high ground? It's only a little bit - comparatively speaking....
01-15-07 - What to Do About Iran? A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...
01-15-07 - TOP RABBI SAYS GOVERNMENT HAS MOVED AWAY FROM PRO-ISRAEL STANCE Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, has denounced what he says is the Italian centre-left government's move away from support for Israel and has defined Italian policy towards the Jewish state as "wavering". Oh dear god. Stop the presses.
01-15-07 - Palestinian MP lauds late Kuwait Amir''s role in supporting Palestine
01-15-07 - From the Mouth of the Lion's Den Hilda Reilly is a British writer who recently spent six months in Palestine. One of the surprising situations she encountered was the subversive activities of Christian fundamentalists in the Palestinian communities. While in Jerusalem she met a Canadian Christian Zionist couple from who invited her to stay at their home in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. The following account is adapted from a passage in her book, Prickly Pears of Palestine.
01-15-07 - Israel looking for an extreme makeover Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter strongly criticised Israel in his new bestselling book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," and a recent international consumer survey found that Israel has the worst "brand name" of any country in the world. Aha! My New Year's prediction already coming true. Be warned, America. (More) propaganda on the way.
01-15-07 - JIMMY FOR TERROR The NY Post reveals its true colors. Your best bet is to read the book, and then watch as these folks make fools of themselves; it is NOT that bad.
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