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Thursday, January 18, 2007
01-17-07 - Palestinians: Girl, 10, seriously hurt by Border Police fire Witnesses said they collected rubber-coated bullets in the area that were fired by the Border Police troops, although other witnesses said a stun grenade fired by the forces exploded near the girl.
01-17-07 - Israeli border police attack and injure a Palestinian worker in Jerusalem
01-17-07 - Farmers lands are on one side of the Wall and house is on the other: Israelis ban cars & horse carts The Israeli government already will not issue permits for Palestinian farmers to use their cars, or any type of motor vehicle, to reach their lands now on the other side of the Wall, but horse drawn carriages have just been banned as well.
01-17-07 - Two Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza Two Palestinian civilians have been wounded by Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, medics and witnesses said.
01-17-07 - Israeli Army fires one tank shell into the eastern side of Beit Hannoun The shell landed in farming lands and caused damage but no injures, Palestinian sources reported
01-17-07 - Soldiers hit 10 year old in the head at Jerusalem school, Director: soldiers throw grenades at kids Abeer Aramin was only injured by the gas bomb that was shot at the back of her head. She had just stepped out of the Anata School for Girls after taking a test when the gas canister hit her and she was knocked to the ground.
01-17-07 - Israel grants W. Bank access to foreign citizens of Palestinian origin Israel on Tuesday sent a letter to the Palestinian Authority granting Palestinians with foreign citizenship permission to enter the West Bank, yet activists say the new rule is not being implemented.
01-17-07 - Israel to give Abbas $100 million
01-17-07 - Gaza group says Hamas, Fatah delay prisoner deal
01-17-07 - A Jewish, democratic Greater Israel? The West Bank does not now, nor has it ever belonged to Israel. It is Israeli-OCCUPIED territory. All of the settlements therein are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).
01-17-07 - RJC demands Clark apology The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Wesley Clark to apologize for claiming that ?New York money people? were trying to push the United States into war with Iran.
01-17-07 - American Court Files A Lawsuit To Ensure No Money Release To Palestinian People The Arab League's Secretary-General, Amr Moussa sent a letter to the prime minister Ismael Haneyeh on January 14 in which Moussa explained that one of American courts filed a lawsuit to prevent the Arab league to send aids to the Palestinian National Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Al Ayam newspaper reported today.
01-17-07 - Tools for better life in the Middle East: musical instruments For the many budding musicians in the Palestinian territories, life is far from easy. Not only are music stores in short supply, but most students can't afford to buy instruments, explains Marie Albert, administrator of the Al Kamandjati music school in Ramallah, a recipient of instruments from Music Fund. "That's why Music Fund helps us so much," she says, "With these donations, we're able to give children instruments to take home and practice on, instead of just having one lesson a week at the center."
01-17-07 - Rice: May be easier to set final, not provisional, Palestinian borders U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday reiterated that she prefers to see negotiations aimed at achieving a permanent, rather than provisional, Palestinian state
01-17-07 - Hebron: A Different News
01-17-07 - Moussa to Haniyeh: Hamas has no money in the Arab League Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa told the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh, that Hamas does not have sufficient funds deposited with the Arab League, and that he could not transfer any funds from the special account in Egypt at the present time.
01-17-07 - Under-cover forces attack detainees in Be?er Shiva prison
01-17-07 - Turkey to send humanitarian aid to Palestinians The Turkish Red Crescent announced Wednesday that it would send four thousand tons of flour to Palestinians, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
01-17-07 - Abbas will not meet Hamas chief in Syria
01-17-07 - US, Germany relaunch Mideast quartet
01-17-07 - Ambassador Jones talks to 'Post' "... If you look vis- -vis Gaza, Israel is no longer doing anything against the Palestinians in Gaza, but still bad things are happening to Palestinians, so that is good for you because it shows the Palestinians that terror is not in their interests because it will be directed against them." Come again?
01-17-07 - Health Care Breaking Down on West Bank A recent report by the World Health Organization says the healthcare system is almost on the point of collapse. The report says the Palestinian Ministry of Health is heavily dependent on international aid.
01-17-07 - Israeli army balks at some US aid to Abbas forces
01-17-07 - A reality more absurd than fiction nearly a month ago, the deaf and mute farmer Fareed was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint. Very run-of-the-mill. Palestinians get arrested all the time for all sorts of reasons at the hundreds of checkpoints scattered all over the West Bank. However, the deaf and mute farmer Fareed was arrested because he currently stands accused of agitating the Palestinian masses against Israel through shouting messages down a megaphone.
01-17-07 - US Consulate in Jerusalem retracts Ambassador's remarks to Israeli newspaper "The U.S. government does not support intra-Palestinian violence. As Secretary Rice said in Ramallah on January 14, "Our desire is for the Palestinian people to be able to live in unity and democracy and in peace." A very quick backpedal with regard to Jones' remarks.
01-17-07 - Israel Warns Russia on Iran Arms Sale ** Defense officials predicted the systems would be used to defend Iran's nuclear facilities, particularly the uranium enrichment center at Natanz.
01-17-07 - Correcting Carter's 242 distortion Israel's attack dogs are now going after the publisher of Carter's book. Going after Carter was not enough. Must be part of that new 'PR campaign'.
01-17-07 - Dual Loyalty: Why Did Neocon Max Singer Vote in Israel and U.S.? Now you know why OUR politicians campaign in ISRAEL.
01-17-07 - Christmas in the Air and Elsewhere : A Traveler?s Diary So what did I learn from my brief stay in Bethlehem ? It can all be summed up in the words of a song written by my friend Garth Hewitt (www.amostrust.org). Garth wrote, "I got some news. It may be a surprise ; it is a basic truth but I?ve come to recognize it may come as a shock. It?s only known to a few, but Palestinians are humans too. If you share the secret, if you say it loud you gonna be criticized without any doubt, but they?re hated and despised and denied their rights, but strangely they?re precious in God?s own eyes. Palestinians are humans too. They weep and they bleed like me and like you. We can treat them like outcasts like so many do, but Palestinians are people too."
01-17-07 - The newest smear of Carter coming out of Israel Soon we will hear that Carter was in fact a Nazi guard himself (and also that he was behind the grassy knoll). The MO of the Israeli lobby: smear and assassinate the character of those who dare to criticize Israel. The feces is being flung fast and furiously of late - Israel's new PR campaign?
01-17-07 - Israeli Army 'delighted' at reported selection for new head of UNIFIL Last week, Israeli Army officers bid "good riddance" to Pellegrini, whom they claimed was pro-Hizbullah and had not made sufficient efforts to prevent the resistance from rearming along the Lebanese border with Israel.
01-17-07 - Inquest finds Israel had 'no clear objective' during war
01-17-07 - Rice wraps up Middle East mission Most Arab rulers are worried about Iran's new regional power and secretly wish it could be cut down to size - but not if that means military action by the United States or Israel, something they fear would further destabilise an already turbulent Middle East.
01-17-07 - 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel
01-17-07 - Carter's book is long overdue
01-17-07 - Teacher's anti-Israel resolution angers Jewish group, parents, splits union The motion put forward by Jason Kunin, an English teacher and Jewish activist who has frequently criticized Israeli government policies, and Hyssam Hulays, a computer science teacher, decries "Israel's continued violation of the human rights of Palestinians."
01-17-07 - The Bush Threat to Iran ** Israel and its friends have been pressing for such an attack, or threatening that Israel might make such an attack itself.
01-17-07 - Israeli foreign minister says Iran spreading radical ideology Sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program are not working, Israel's foreign minister said during a visit to Tokyo on Wednesday, and accused the Islamic country of spreading radical ideology around the Middle East.
01-17-07 - Amazon.com's Mideast turmoil Henry Norr, a former San Francisco Chronicle technology columnist, who urged the Jan. 22 boycott on petitiononline.com, claims Amazon purposely gave unusually prominent placement to a highly critical Washington Post review. And, he adds: "You have refused to add the fact that the reviewer, Jeffrey Goldberg, is a citizen of Israel as well as the United States, and that he volunteered to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, for which he worked as a guard at a prison for Palestinian detainees."
You can sign the petition here.
01-17-07 - Syrian state media call for Israeli pledge on Golan heights
01-17-07 - Urban Outfitters Stops Selling Kaffiyehs as 'Antiwar' Scarves
01-17-07 - Gulf group: Israel-Palestinian conflict key to peace The United States joined a statement saying that the Middle East would never be stable without a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
01-17-07 - Rabbi calls on world to curb Iran
01-17-07 - Israel, Want to Improve Your 'Brand'? End the Palestinian Conflict.
01-17-07 - Thousands gather in Beirut to celebrate Halutz resignation
01-17-07 - What's next -- war with Iran? ** The American Jewish Committee took out a full page ad in The New York Times showing Iran in the center of concentric circles, including all the Middle East and beyond, asking: "Can anyone within range of Iran's missiles feel safe?"
01-17-07 - Brandeis University to Allow Rebuttal After Carter Speech
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